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Black Death Reconquest Tainos |
An epidemic of bubonic plague that in the mid-fourteenth cent. killed 1/3 of Europ. Popul. and resulted in increased food and resources for the survivors as well as a sense of a world in precarious balance. The centuries-long drive to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula undertaken by the Christian Kingdoms old Spain and Portugal. The military victories of the Reconquest helped the Portuguese gain greater access to sea routes. The Indians who inhabited San Salvador and many Caribbean islands and who were the first people Colombus encountered after making landfall in the New World |
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Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Colombian exchange Conquistadores |
Treaty negotiated to delineate land claims in the New World. Te treaty drew an imaginary line west of the Canary Islands; lands discovered west of the line belonged to Spain, and land to the east belonged to Portugal. (Portuguese and Spanish) The transatlantic exchange of goods, people, and ideas that began when Colombus arrived in the Caribbean, ending the age-old separation of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. the Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered land in the New World. |
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Incan Empire Acoma pueblo revolt New Spain |
A region under the control of the Incans and their emperor, Atahualpa, that stretched along the western coast of South America and contained more than nine million people and a wealth in gold and silver Revolt against the Spanish by Indians living at the Acoma pueblo in 1599. Juan de Onate violently suppressed the uprising, but the Indians revolted again later that year, after which many Spanish settlers returned to Mexico. Land in the New World held by the Spanish crown. Spain pioneered techniques of using New World colonies to strengthen the kingdom in Europe. Spains colonial system would become a model for other European nations. |
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Encomienda Creoles Protestant Reformation |
A system for governing used during the Reconquest and in New Spain. It allowed the Spanish encomendero (owner of the town) to collect tribute from the town in return to providing law and order and encouraging his "Indians" to turn to Christianity. Children born to Spanish parents in the New World who, with the peninsulares, made up the tiny portion of the population at the top of the colonial social hierarchy. The reform movement that began in 1517 with Martin Luther's critiques of the Roman Catholic Church. The protestant Reformation precipitated an enduring schism that divided Protestants from Catholics |
