Social 8 Chapter 9 Vocabulary

the qualities or features that distinguish one person or group from another

• NOCHE TRISTE

• PROTECTORATE

• FATHER BARTOLOME de LAS CASAS

• CHARACTER TRAITS

a Dominican friar was the strongest defender of the Indigenous peoples of New Spain during the early years of Spanish rule.

• CHARACTER TRAITS

• PROTECTORATE

• NOCHE TRISTE

• FATHER BARTOLOME de LAS CASAS

a local woman who was named Dona Marina, she spoke both Maya, the language of the Yucatan, and Nahuatl, the official language of the Aztec. Dona Marina was the property of a ruler in one of the coastal areas who gave her to Cortés as a gift.

• LA MALINCHE

• GENEALOGY

• CONFRONTATION

• HERNAN CORTES

country under the protection or control of another

• CHARACTER TRAITS

• HACIENDA

• NOCHE TRISTE

• PROTECTORATE

the clashing of forces or ideas

• HERNAN CORTES

• LA MALINCHE

• GENEALOGY

• CONFRONTATION

estate; plantation

• PROTECTORATE

• HACIENDA

• NOCHE TRISTE

• CHARACTER TRAITS

family history

• HERNAN CORTES

• GENEALOGY

• CONFRONTATION

• LA MALINCHE

Sorrowful Night - the Spanish tried to escape from Tenochtitlan in the middle of the night to make their way to the coast

• NOCHE TRISTE

• PROTECTORATE

• CHARACTER TRAITS

• FATHER BARTOLOME de LAS CASAS

a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain

• CONFRONTATION

• LA MALINCHE

• GENEALOGY

• HERNAN CORTES