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23 Cards in this Set
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Millenarianism
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Belief that the entire population must be christian for the 2nd coming to occur
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Post Conquest decline of Indian population
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-Disease
-Violence |
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Treaty dividing the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
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Encomienda
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Grant of Indian labor by royal representative
Supposed to provide wages, but little actually changed |
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Real Patronato
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Royal Patronage
Power over the creation of churches and monasteries |
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Why was the Portuguese monarchy not immediately involved in Brazil?
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No real economic interest besides wood
Wood extraction did not require settlement- Indians willing in return for smalls trinkets Focused on W Africa and S Asia |
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yanacona
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those unattached to any native community
came to mean permanent employee of a spaniard |
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bandeirantes
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slave hunters
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donatary captain
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Responsible for governing a division of land
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aldeias
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concentrated indian villages for protection by Jesuits
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Reasons for African Slavery
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-Declining Indian population
-Not vulnerable to old world disease -familiar with tropical conditions -occupational experience -familiar with Christianity -Indians were more vulnerable, could easily escape |
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Divine and Authoritarian Soverignty
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Monarch did not have to consult others
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Viceroylties
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executive-jud-leg
largest admin. units |
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Audiencias
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Judicial-exec
Judges=oidores |
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Cabildos
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city and town councils
exec-jud-leg ordinances->regulations issued |
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Reducciones
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Communities of Indians formed by Jesuits
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Colonial pact
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Monarchy's weakness in America-> rising power of upper creole society
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Corregidor
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-gradually replaced encomenderos
-post could be purchased -originally req a degree -position was later freely sold to private individuals |
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Responsibilities of corregidor
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-promote catholicism
-collect indian tribute -allocation of indian labor (new mita) -forced distribution of european goods (reparto) |
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caciques/curacas
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Local lords left in place by the Spaniards
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“Pongueaje” “pongos”
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perodical individual service
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“mita”
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Periodical labor demanded by Spaniards from Indian communities
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Debt-peonage
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peons worked to pay debts
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