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| Never Ending Slavery that kept being passed down generations. It took natural human rights from the enslaved. The lack of rights kept slaves submissive and that's what kept slavery going. |
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| The relationship between laws, customs and government. The policies and laws are what sustained the colonial labor systems. |
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| The relation between beliefs of what is accepted and labor systems. Morale economy affects political economy, and that is what kept slavery and the corrupt form of wage labor around for so long. |
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| Court that controlled a certain area. Important because of power and to keep hold of spanish influence. Sort of like a capital. |
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| Areas subdivided into regions. Appointed by king and viceroys. Reestablished Spanish control after losing it through encomienda. The spanish elites controlled who held power. |
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| Each town has its own town council, a corporation which regulated the life of the inhabitants and exercised supervision over the properties in the public ownership - the communal lands, woods and pastures and the street colonnades with their market stalls, from much of the income is derived. |
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| Forced Labor system, where people were paid and went to work in a mine or do state projects roads bridges, etc. They would be gone for a set amount of time then return to their home where encomienda was still in affect and had to meet quotas which often meant they ended up making no money. This kept the people working essentially as slaves. |
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| Name for Natives who lived on an estate and became part of the estate not mattering of the owner as part of the estate. Just as many Forasteros as Yanaconas. Started as nomadic workers then Francisco de Toledo decided that he was going to remove exemption from tribute and order all Yanaconas to stay at their current residence. But were exempt from MIta. |
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| Indians from the encomienda gave tribute, labor, and service to the encomendero, who was obligated to provide them with protection and indoctrination in Christianity. |
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| The middle people between the Spanish and the Indians. Lots of power through translation. asked for too much...chose sides... |
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| Indians who left their own communities to permanently assimilate themselves into other communities to escape tribute and forced labor |
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