HIST 276 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: New Canaries, Huaca, Andean Civilizations

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Hist 276 history of latin america: colonial period. Concordia university, winter 2014 (you must come up with a very short definition; two or three manuscript lines maximum) Audiencia: a high court and advisory body to a regional chief executive in the spanish colonies, also the territorial jurisdiction of such a court. Isabel: queen of castile and le n, she reorganized the governmental system, brought the crime rate to the lowest it had been in years, and unburdened the kingdom of the enormous debt. Olmecs: major culture because it influenced many cultures afterwards (religion, art, ball game, social structures, etc. ). Aztecs: central mexico/ 14 16th century/ advanced in medicine and education. Mayas: mesoamerican civilization/ 250 ad/ noted for its fully developed written language, art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Language: nahuatl. indigenous peoples of mexico and el salvador/ 500 ce/ Epidemics why so important and lasted such a long time. What factors made it different from europe and others.

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