APUSH 1491-1607

Atlantic Seaboard

Societies developed a mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economy that favored the development of permanent villages

Bartolome de Las Casas

a catholic missionary who renounced the Spanish practice of forcibly converting Native populations to Catholicism, and advocated better treatment for them. in 1552, he wrote “A Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies,“ which described the Spanish cruel treatment of the indians.

Capitalism

an economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive, and private ownership of the means of production.

Caste System

a set of rigid social categories that determines not only a person’s occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society.

encomienda system

spanish government’s policy to “commend,“ or give indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to christianize them. part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the west indies and on the north American mainland. Plantation based agriculture.

Feudalism

a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land.

Hernan Cortez

1519 he led soldiers to Tenochtitlan, placed it under siege with help of natives, defeated aztec empire and began Spanish empire in mesoamerica.

pueblo revolt

a successful uprising by indigenous pueblo people that drove Spanish colonizers out of present day new Mexico for twelve years.