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Glossary aguacil mayor magistrate asiento monopoly contract audiencia administrative court auto-de-fé literally “proceedings of faith”; the Inquisition’s punitive processional barrio neighborhood bozal African directly from Guinea who was unable to speak Castilian cabildo municipal (town) council Castile Iberian kingdom often synonymous with Spain chino/a term for people from the Spanish Philippines converso descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity conviviencia literally “coexistence”; refers to Christian, Jewish, and Muslim coexistence on the Iberian Peninsula coyote literally “coyote”; offspring of an African and Indian criollo creole; a native of the Americas; term initially used to refer to descendants of Africans depósito female sanctuary engenhos Portuguese term for landed estate or plantation entrada expedition extra ecclesiam Christian designation for all people who did not accept the Catholic (Universal) faith¤scal prosecutor fueros juridical privileges granted to towns or members of speci¤c corporations gente de razón literally “people of reason”; term for allegedly rational subjects Guinea term for sub-Saharan Africa, especially the area from south of the Senegal River to southern Angola hacienda landed estate indio/a Indian Indies synonymous with the Americas información matrimonial marriage petition ladino an African culturally conversant in Castilian mestizaje biological and cultural mixing mestizo offspring of a Spaniard and Indian morisco a Christian of Moorish descent Nahua the largest indigenous group in central colonial Mexico New Spain Castilian designation for colonial Mexico pardo term for the offspring of African-Indian unions pieza de India unit representing a prime slave plaza mayor town square representing the juridical epicenter of a Spanish settlement portero doorman provisor ecclesiastical judge reconquista Christian conquest of the Muslim-occupied Iberian Peninsula relación legal brief República de los Españoles Spanish commonwealth; a juridical domain metaphorically occupied by Spaniards República de los Indios Indian commonwealth; a juridical domain ideally restricted to the indigenous inhabitants of the Indies Siete Partidas thirteenth-century Castilian legal code solar an urban plot of land traza the thirteen blocks surrounding the plaza mayor ideally restricted to Spaniards vecino/a resident 196 Glossary ...

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