HA1 Unit #2 Terms Quiz

A period of 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms slowly expanded themselves over the Iberian Peninsula at the expense of the Muslim Moorish States.

• Law of Burgos (1512)

• Casa de Contratacion

• Frontier of Inclusion

• Reconquista

An agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.

• Mercantilism

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• New Laws of the Indies (1542)

• Reconquista

A belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• Reconquista

• Casa de Contratacion

• Yanaconaje

• Mercantilism

The Spanish crown granted indigenous villages to individual conquistadors as a reward for their services. Native Americans were forced into labor to an encomendero who was supposed to provide protection and convert them to Christianity.

• Mercantilism

• Casa de Contratacion

• Encomienda System

• Columbian Exchange

The widespread exchange, both deliberate and accidental, of animals, plants, diseases, and peoples between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange

• Casa de Contratacion

• Mercantilism

• Frontier of Inclusion

An agency located in Spain and founded in 1503 whose purpose was to regulate emigration and trade in the New World.

• Reconquista

• Frontier of Inclusion

• Yanaconaje

• Casa de Contratacion

Another form of Spanish enslavement of Native Americans where they would work for Spaniards in exchange for access to a small plot of land.

• Yanaconaje

• Encomienda System

• Mercantilism

• Casa de Contratacion

A term that translates to "Cleanliness of Blood."

• Yanaconaje

• Limpieza de Sangre

• Reconquista

• Casa de Contratacion

A term that refers to colonizing where a great deal of intermixing took place between the colonizers and native peoples. It allowed for not only repopulation, but for a population that was part native and part foreign. This created a great bridge from the old world to the new world.

• Reconquista

• Yanaconaje

• Casa de Contratacion

• Frontier of Inclusion

Laws intended to prevent the mistreatment and exploitation of Native Americans by the encomenderos by limiting their power over the group of natives.

• New Laws of the Indies (1542)

• Law of Burgos (1512)

• Mercantilism

• Casa de Contratacion