A | B |
Potosi | site of silver mines where Spanish used native labor |
encomienda | system of Spanish conquerors exacting labor & tribute from natives |
creole | those born in Americas of Iberian parents |
haciendas | Spanish estates which sold food for profit |
Hernan Cortes | Spaniard who conquered the Aztecs |
mit'a system | Spanish req't of 1/7 of native males to work in Potosi |
Nzinga | Queen of Ndongo who resisted the Portuguese |
Vodou | syncretic religion based on African beliefs and Christianity |
maroons | communities of runaway slaves |