Chapter 4-6 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What Spanish name was used for the East Indies from the Philippines to New Guinea?.
Las Isles del Poniente
Who was given command of the Spanish expedition to the East Indies by the Viceroy in Mexico?.
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
In what year did Legazpi’s fleet sail from La Navidad, Mexico?.
1564
What type of contractual agreement for exploration and colonization provided the basis for exploitative policies?.
encomienda
What were Legazpi and his successors trying to consolidate in the Philippines?.
the rule of Spain
The terms of agreement drawn up in 1578 were between Philip II and whom?.
Gonzalo Ronquillo de PeNalosa
What feudal institution, used in Spain during the reconquista, served as an instrument of pacification and enrichment?.
encomienda
According to the source, where did the encomienda system undergo transformations reflecting the development of the Spanish economic base?.
West Indies
The Crown delegated the power to collect tribute and use personal services to whom in the West Indies?.
earliest encomenderos
In what year did Charles V decree the abolition of the encomiendas due to abuses?.
1542
Tribute under the compromise that extended the life of the encomienda was to be paid in what forms?.
money or in produce
According to the source, was the encomienda in the Philippines a land grant?.
no
What was the primary purpose of the encomienda in the Philippines?.
exacting tribute from the natives
According to the source, what was the annual tribute authorized for encomenderos to collect from male inhabitants aged nineteen to sixty?.
eight reales
What was the maximum share of the total tribute collection for an encomendero?.
one-fourth
Who were usually charged with collecting the tribute and forwarding it to the encomendero?.
cabezas de barangay
According to the Laws of the Indies, how long could an encomendero stay in the native settlements within their encomiendas?.
not more than one night
An encomienda grant to a Spanish individual and his heirs could be held for how many lifetimes?.
two, sometimes three
According to the source, what happened to a native’s property when they died without heirs?.
it was given to the town or village
Antonio de Morga wrote about encomenderos employing Indians in building houses and large vessels, grinding rice, and cutting wood, and paying them how much for their labor?.
little or nothing
In 1583, Fray Domingo de Salazar described brutalities inflicted by encomenderos during tribute collection, including crucifying or putting the hand of whom in stocks?.
the chief
According to Fray Domingo de Salazar, what did an encomendero exact from a chief who had no gold, silver, or cloth?.
an Indian
According to the source, what imposition was most consistently complained of and collected from Legazpi’s time until 1884?.
the tribute
What were men between the ages of sixteen and sixty required to serve in for forty days each year, instituted in 1580?.
the labor pool or polo
