1. By: Hyunju Bin, LizzyFaeth, Sharon Gao, Tanner Murray, and Michele Scherf Spanish America: Key Terms

2. An economy relying on one major export or natural resource to bring most of the currency into the country Monoeconomy

3. A form of governance in which all power flows directly from the leader; this constitutes essentially the blending of the public and private sectors These regimes are autocratic or oligarchic and exclude the upper and middle classes from power; leaders have absolute power Armies are loyal to the leaders, not the nation Patrimonialism

4. Chain of missions established by the Francisan monks in the Spanish southwest that forced Indians to convert to Catholicism and work as agricultural laborers Mission System

5. Grant from the Spanish Crown allowing a colonist in America to demand tribute/forced labor from Indian inhabitants Encomienda

6. A labor institution in colonial Spanish – America in which a royal judge made a temporary allotment of Indian for a given task; replaced encomiendu. Repartimiento

7. Ruler’s principal representative in the New World (ex: Columbus) 1st viceroy of New Spain = Antonio le Mendozu 1535 Mexico City. Viceroy

8. White Europeans who later came to the new world Peninsulares

9. Whites born in the Spanish American Empire Gained citizenship from both empires Creoles

10. People of mixed European and Native American descent. Mestizos had fewer rights than Peninsular and Criollos (persons born in the New World of two European-born parents) but more rights that Indios and Negros. Mestizos

11. A person mixed of black and white ancestry. Mulattoes

12. Mexican and African mix. Cimarron (fugitives) that fled to the mountains and formed their own settlements. Palenques (Cumbes)