Great League of Peace:

•  The great league of peace was an alliance and council between 5 tribes. The male representatives were chosen by women. 

 reconquista (p. 17) The reconquest of Spain from the moors, Completed by King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth in 1492.

caravel (p. 19) A European ship capable of long distance travel.

conquistadores (p. 22) Spanish Term for Conquerors applied to spanish and portuguese soldiers who to overland owned by the indigenous people.

Tenochtitlán (p. 22) Capital city of the Aztec Empire.

Aztec (p.22) The mesoamerican empire ruled by the Mexica People. 

 Columbian Exchange (p. 22) The transatlantic flow of good and people that began with columbus’s voyages. 

creoles (p. 25) A person born in America of European ancestry. 

hacienda (p._25) Large scale farm in the spanish empire worked by Native American Laborers 

mestizos (p. 25)  Spanish term for a person who is mixed with native and european blood. 

Ninety-Five Theses (p. 26) A list of moral grievances by the catholic church by Martin Luther the German priest in 1517.

 Bartolomé de Las Casas (p. 27) An Advocator for the better treatment of native americans. Denounced the catholic empire for killing millions of innocent people trying to convert them. 

repartimiento system (p. 27) A system where the Indians were free from forced labor and able to work for wage, but their wages were capped at a certain amount.

Black Legend (p. 28) The idea that the Spanish were more brutal to the Indians than any other European empire was. 

Pueblo Revolt (p. 34)  An uprising in 1680 led by Pope with allied pueblos to drive Spanish colonists out of New Mexico. 

 borderland (p. 42) A place between or near borders where no one has political or cultural power.