WS Ch. 8 Notecards

Spanish or Portuguese-speaking nations south of the U.S. (Central and South America)

This was the line drawn by Pope Alexander VI that gave everything east of it to Portugal (Africa, Asia) and everything west of it to Spain (New World)

moved the Line of Demarcation farther west to prevent Portuguese sailors from accidentally crossing into Spanish waters on their way around Africa; although no one knew it at the time, this treaty would also give Portugal claim to Brazil in South America

In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of full Spanish descent born in the New World; capable of great wealth but no political power under the colonial system

The European country from which colonists had been sent from

send (goods or services) to another country for sale.

To bring in goods from a foreign country for sale or use

A Portuguese noble that ruled in the New World; a hereditary privilege

Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the new world; a title only held by peninsulares

People living in the New World Spanish colonies but born in Spain; permitted to hold political offices

Bartolome de Las Casas convinced the King of Spain to institute these laws, which ended American Indian slavery, ended forced Indian labor, and began the process of ending the encomienda systems.

A person of mixed Native American and European (Spanish/Portuguese) ancestry

Poor neighborhoods in South American colonies; occupied by poor Spaniards and Mestizos

Large Spanish colonial estates usually owned by wealthy families but worked by many peasants

the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas