Concepts for Chapter 1’s Primary: The Requerimiento of 1510 and Why We Are Doing an Abbreviated List

The Requerimiento of 1510:

·         Is the primary you will use for your first writing assignment

·         Is a powerful way to help you avoid fantasies about this period of the past

·         Is also one of the hardest things most students will read because they have trouble taking in that this is the way the world was (and still is in some places)

To help you, this is an abbreviated list of the Concepts for this Unit. A concept in gray is part of a set of concepts but it has not happened yet or it has not happened for the people covered in this primary.

Economic terms:

·         Feudalism

·         Mercantilism

·         Capitalism

·         Communism

·         Fascism

 

Governmental terms:

·         Tribe

·         Kingdom or monarchy (ruler: king and/or queen)

·         Nation state

·         Constitutional monarchy

·         Oligarchy

·         Republic or representative democracy

 

Terms for developments in this era:

·         Empire (ruler: emperor) and the words imperial and imperialism

·         Colony

·         Colonization

·         Exploration

 

Terms about people who are not free by law:

·         Servitude

·         Master

·         Slave

·         Serf

·         Bondage or bound

·         Indentured servant

 

Tip: As I currently understand the history, the Spanish turn the Native Americans into the legal equivalent of serfs.

Terms about people who are free but have a feudal relationship of land and protection:

·         Feudalism

·         Lord

·         Subject or vassal

Tip:  Subject is used with feudalism but is still used as a term today for people in a monarchy.
Vassal is used specifically with feudalism.

 

Terms for religions involved in events:

·         Roman Catholicism

·         Pope (related terms of papacy or St. Peter)

·         Protestant Reformation

·         Lutheranism

·         Calvinism

·         Anglicanism