| A | B |
|---|
| Conquistadors | Spanish Conquerors |
| immunity | resistance |
| Hernan Cortes | one of the first spanish quonquistadors, he used to be a land owner |
| Tenochtitlan | Capital of the aztec empire |
| Malinche | Translator who understood mayan, aztec, and learned spanish quickly |
| alliances | Cortes set these up with people quonquered by the aztecs |
| Moctezuma | Aztec Emperor |
| Christianity | The spanish saught to convert all the natives to |
| Mexico City | Built in the ruins of Tenochtitlan |
| Disease | A major influence in the spanish conquests |
| Pizarro | Conquered the Incas and founded the city of Lima |
| Viceroys | Representatives who ruled in the kings name |
| Ecomienda | The system that gave the ability to force labor on plantations |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | Priest that spoke out against Ecomienda |
| Peons | Workers forced to work by landlords to pay off a debt |
| Peninsulares | Top of Spain's social class structure, those who were born in spain |
| Creoles | second highest people in spain's class structure, people born in america with spain descendants |
| Mestizos | People who are european and Native American |
| Mulattoes | People of african and european descent |
| Privateers | Pirates operating with the approval of the european government |
