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Course Title Course ID Course Section Number Semester/Year Syllabus
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A social hierarchy encoded in law and based on inherited characteristics, real or imagined, as opposed to socioeconomic factors. The system in Latin America corresponded more or less to race.
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A general principle of male superiority within society.
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A cluster of political ideals, emphasizing freedoms, of various civil, political, and economic kinds.
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An institution whereby groups of indigenous people were legally "entrusted" to a Spanish conquerer with the duty of paying him labor and/or tribute. In return the Spaniard was to provide instruction in Catholicism.
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Formerly called "the Discovery of America," this marks the moment when the worlds of Native Americans and Europeans collided, changing both forever.
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A basic principle of social control, in which a ruling class dominates others ideologically, with a minimum of physical force, by making its dominance seem natural and inevitable.
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Of mixed race.
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Mining this ore was the backbone of the colonial Spanish American export economy, with the main extractive centers in northern Mexico & Peru.
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The peninsula in southwestern Europe in which modern Portugal and Spain are located.
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A Mesoamerican empire that united numerous, small, independent states under a single monarch. The population was near 25 million people. In 1521, they were conquered by Hernan Cortes.
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An empire in the Andean highland valleys of Peru with a population of 4 to 6 million. They were conquered by Francisco Pizarro in 1533.
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