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| 130087338 | Vasco Da Gama | One of the first Portuguese sailors to round the Cape of Good Hope in search of spices | 0 | |
| 130087339 | Lateen sails | Triangular sails that allowed for more manuverability of ships beacause they caught side winds | 1 | |
| 130087340 | Maritime technology | technology that assisted sailors and merchants in their maritime expeditions | 2 | |
| 130087341 | Bartholomeu Dias | Another Portuguese sailor who looked for spices in India, went back at Cape of Good Hope | 3 | |
| 130087342 | Christopher Columbus | gained permission from Fernando and Isabella to look for a western route to Asia; found the Americas; expedition official start of the Columbian Exchange | 4 | |
| 130087343 | James Cook | Important english explorer; charted east Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuato, and Hawii | 5 | |
| 130087344 | Circumnavigation | the act of traveling around the whole world | 6 | |
| 130087345 | Vitus Bering | Danish navigator who searched for a Northwest Passage to Asian ports | 7 | |
| 130087346 | Trading-post empires | empires dependent on the income of the merchants; trading posts | 8 | |
| 130087347 | English (British) East India Co. (BEIC) | powerful joint-stock trading company | 9 | |
| 130087348 | VOC | powerful joint-stock trading company; "Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compaigne" | 10 | |
| 130087349 | Prince Henry the Navigator | young Portuguese prince; in charge of Portuguese explorations | 11 | |
| 130087350 | "Columbian Exchange" | the exchange of plants, animals, ideas, people, disease, and cultures | 12 | |
| 130087351 | Entrepot | trading post | 13 | |
| 130087352 | Manila galleons | sleek, fast, heavily armed spanish ships capable of carrying large cargoes | 14 | |
| 130087353 | Martin Luther | Roman Catholic priest who disagreed with some of the churches practices; stated the Protestant Reformation | 15 | |
| 130087354 | 95 Thesis | Matin Luthers list of complaints about some Roman Catholic church | 16 | |
| 130087355 | Henry VIII | Turtor king; powerful Btitish king takes England our of Roman Catholic church | 17 | |
| 130087356 | Missionary | a traveling religious persons who looks to spread his/her faith | 18 | |
| 130087357 | Council of Trent | council of Roman Catholic church officials that met to discuss some issues mentioned by Luther | 19 | |
| 130087358 | Society of Jesus | Catholic reformation group founded by Loyola | 20 | |
| 130087359 | Thirty Years' War | war of religion; Catholic vs Protestant; in german states; resolved with the Peace of Westphalia | 21 | |
| 130087360 | Treaty or Peace of Westphalia | critical European document that concluded with Sovernty (within its borders, a nation can control what religion is practiced | 22 | |
| 130087361 | Protestant | follower of Martin Luthers and the Protestant Reformation | 23 | |
| 130087362 | Charles V | spanish king; ran empire with money off of American labor; went into debt | 24 | |
| 130087363 | Siege of Vienna | Ottoman siege led by Selim the Grim ("Suleyman the Conqueror") | 25 | |
| 130087364 | Glorious Revolution | when parliment desposed of King James II and invited his daugter Mary and her Dutch husband to take the throne | 26 | |
| 130087365 | Louis XIV | French absolute ruler; king at 5-7; built palace of Versailles | 27 | |
| 130087366 | Peter I | Romanov tsar; goal to make Russia a military model of Europe | 28 | |
| 130087367 | Versailles | palace of the French king Louis XIV | 29 | |
| 130087368 | St. Petersburg | famous Russian city; named after Pert the Great | 30 | |
| 130087369 | Catherine II | wife of Peter I's grandson; also sought to make Russia a great military power | 31 | |
| 130087370 | Balance of Power | no state ruled all; all equal significance | 32 | |
| 130087371 | Capitalism | an economic system in which private parties make their services and goods available on a free market | 33 | |
| 130096518 | Adam Smith | wrote a book " the weath of nations" during the enlightenment | 34 | |
| 130096519 | Joint-stock companies | early forerunner of the modern corporation; individuals who invested in a trading or exploiting venture could make a huge profits while limiting their risks | 35 | |
| 130096520 | Putting-out system | method of getting around guild control by deliverying unfinished materials to rural households for completion. | 36 | |
| 130096521 | Ptolemaic universe | the theory that all planets revolved around the earth and the earth did not move | 37 | |
| 130096522 | Copernican universe | the theory that all planets revolved around the sun | 38 | |
| 130096523 | Newton | in his work, united the heavens and earth in a vast, cosmic system with mathematical evidense | 39 | |
| 130096524 | deism | an elightenment view that accepted existence of a god by denied supernatural aspects of Christianity | 40 | |
| 130096525 | John Calvin | carly Protestant; believes in predestenation; founder of calvanism | 41 | |
| 130096526 | John Locke | english philosopher; worked to discover the natural law of politics | 42 | |
| 130096527 | Hernan Cortes | conqueror of the Aztecs; an entrepenuer; captured Tenochtithan; assisted by Dona Maria | 43 | |
| 130096528 | Dona Marina/Malintzin | daughter of a native prince; becomes a slave to Cortez | 44 | |
| 130096529 | Treaty of Tordesillas | settled by the pope; divided land of the Americas between Spain and Portugal | 45 | |
| 130096530 | Encomienda | system that gave spansih settlers (encomenderos) the right to force the Americans to work in the mines or fields | 46 | |
| 130096531 | Smallpox | disease to the new world and decrease population | 47 | |
| 130096532 | Seven Years' War | (French and Indian War in America); French vs. England | 48 | |
| 130096533 | Conquistadors | spandish explorers who conquered central/south america in 16th century | 49 | |
| 130096534 | Francisco Pizarro | conquero of the Inca; pig-farmer; capture Incan emperor; demands gold then kills him | 50 | |
| 130096535 | Mestizo (metis) | latin american term for the babies of spanish and native parentage | 51 | |
| 130096536 | Viceroy | part of the spanish colonial administration, local governors/legions | 52 | |
| 130096537 | Settler colony | e.g. British colonies; bring families and grow in the northwest (Americas) | 53 | |
| 130096538 | Mulattoes | mixed-race, african-european | 54 | |
| 130096539 | Peninsulares | latin american officials from spain or portual; french loose canada, indian land | 55 | |
| 130096540 | Potosi | where the spansih discovered silver | 56 | |
| 130096541 | Mita system | natives had to work for and time; jobs=mines, etc. native laborers; death rate high | 57 | |
| 130096542 | Silver trade | treasure galieaons from americas with silver | 58 | |
| 130096543 | Hacienda | large latin american estates | 59 | |
| 130096544 | Sugar plantations | cash crop | 60 | |
| 130096545 | Fur trade | mostly in north america esp by the french/canadian; environmental effects | 61 | |
| 130096546 | Tabacco | cash crop; native to the americas (makes way to virginia) fuels slave trade | 62 | |
| 130096547 | Indentured servitude | wealthy planters would pay europeans to sell a portion of their lives working for passage to the americas | 63 | |
| 130096548 | Sunni Ali | ruler of sonhay empire | 64 | |
| 130096549 | Songhay | along Niger river; decline with morauan army | 65 | |
| 130096550 | Kingdom of Kongo | lower region; 1480's relations with portugese later destroyed by slave trade | 66 | |
| 130096551 | Antonian movement | kongol/angol region; synthesized christianity with african beliefs | 67 | |
| 130096552 | Manioc | a plant that goes from south america to africa, grows well there | 68 | |
| 130096553 | Middle passage | the atlantic ocean; leg of triangle trade (where slaves were transported) | 69 | |
| 130096554 | Olaudah Equiano | african slaves described slave trade in a biography; earned freedom | 70 | |
| 130096555 | Plantation societies | cultures that were self-contained; variety of jobs | 71 | |
| 130096556 | Maroons | runaway slaves; developed cultures; hidden away; results as well | 72 | |
| 130096557 | Creole languages | mixed languages; different african languages as well as spanish etc | 73 | |
| 130096558 | Call-and-response | church etr; african tradition | 74 | |
| 130096559 | Queen Nzinga of Ndongo | resists portuguese forces; creates synthetic christianity | 75 | |
| 130096560 | Manchus | non- chinese people of the north; conquer ming empire; started quin | 76 | |
| 130096561 | Ming dynasty | after Yaun in China; rebuilt Great Wall of China | 77 | |
| 130096562 | Qing dynasty | ruled by Manchus (non-chinese) | 78 | |
| 130096563 | Eunuchs | castrated men; not a threat without possible family to take over after them; could obtain powerful positions | 79 | |
| 130096564 | Forbidden City | Bejing; built by Manchus | 80 | |
| 130096565 | Queue | hair style; shaved front of head with braid in back; required, punishable by death | 81 | |
| 130096566 | Qing Kangxi | confucian scholar; enlightened ruler/conqueror | 82 | |
| 130096567 | Qing Qianlong | reigned over height of Qing; composed more than 100,000 poems; connoisseur of art | 83 | |
| 130096568 | Son of Heaven | belief that the emperor was a heavenly son | 84 | |
| 130096569 | Scholar-Bureaucrat | (usually) confucian scholar; worked for government | 85 | |
| 130096570 | Infanticide | killin of babies, especially girls | 86 | |
| 130096571 | Zheng He | admiral who took large chinese fleet to Indian Ocean | 87 | |
| 130096572 | Treasure ships | manila galleons en route to China | 88 | |
| 130096573 | "Mean people" | soldiers, enterrainers, prostitutes | 89 | |
| 130096574 | Matteo Ricci | Italian Jesuit; goal to convert China to Chritianity; popular in Ming imperial court | 90 | |
| 130096575 | Shogun | methos od rule in Japan | 91 | |
| 130096576 | Daimyo | feudal system of Japan; refer to 'lords' of Japan's feudal society | 92 | |
| 130096577 | Samuri | literally "those who serve"; the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate | 93 | |
| 130096578 | Shintoism | Indigenous Japanese religion; Buddhism to Confucianism also played roles | 94 | |
| 130096579 | Francis Xavier | Jesuit missionary who traveled to Japan | 95 | |
| 130096580 | Dutch learning | Japanese learning things from the Dutch because only Dutch were allowed to interact at Nagasaki | 96 | |
| 130096581 | Shah Jahan | emperor of Mughal India; buile Taj Mahal and Peacock Throne | 97 | |
| 130096582 | Peacock throne | an elegant throne of gold, diamonds, rubies, saffires, and emeralds; built by Shah Jahan | 98 | |
| 130096583 | Taj Mahal | beautiful mosque and tomb built by Shah Jahan for his deceased wife Mumtaz Muhal | 99 | |
| 130096584 | Osman Bey | the fou nder of the Ottoman empire; Bey=chief | 100 | |
| 130096585 | Ghazi | muslim religious warriors | 101 | |
| 130096586 | Devshirme | Ottoman requirement that the Chritians in the Balkans provide young boys to be loyal warriors of the sulton | 102 | |
| 130096587 | Janissaries | loyal soldiers to the sultan who were taken from their Christian communities as young boys | 103 | |
| 130096588 | Mehmet II | "Mehmed the conqueror"; captured Constantinople, named himself emperor; ruler of two lands (Asia and Europe) and two seas (Mediterranean and Black Sea) | 104 | |
| 130096589 | Selim Ismail | founder of Safavid empire; traced ancestory back to Safi al-Din (12th Shiite) | 105 | |
| 130096590 | Selim the Grim | "Suleyman the Magnificent"; conquered Bagdad, Tigris, Euphrates, and Belgrade; made Ottomans powerful naval force | 106 | |
| 130096591 | Twelver Shiism | branch of Islam; 12 perfect religious leaders after Muhammad; 12th went into hiding and will return to walk with Jesus at the end of the world. | 107 | |
| 130096592 | Qizilbash | red hat with 12 pleats in memory of the 12 Shiite imams | 108 | |
| 130096593 | Babur | Zahir al-Din Muhammad; Chaatai Turk; founder of Mughal empire; took Delhi; didnt care about conquered lands | 109 | |
| 130096594 | Akbar | real Mughal leader; grandson of Babur; killed original military leader and took over; religious tolerance | 110 | |
| 130096595 | "Divine faith" | syncretic religion focused on emperor as ruler common to all religious, ethnic, and socual groups in India | 111 | |
| 130096596 | Aurangzeb | ruler under which Mughal empire reached its height; by 18th c, empire covered all of India but a small region at the southern tip | 112 | |
| 130096597 | Coffeehouses | houses devoted to drinking coffee and smoking tobacco; result of Columbian Exchange | 113 | |
| 130096598 | Safavids | later persian empire, founded by Shah Ismail; became center of Shiism; height under Shah Abbas; cetered around capital of Isfahan | 114 | |
| 130096599 | Millet | an automamous self-governing community in the Ottoman empire | 115 | |
| 130096600 | Telescope in Islamis empires | a technology that Islamic clerks rejected | 116 | |
| 130096601 | Printing press in Islamic empires | introduced by Jew refugees from Spain; opperated in major cities | 117 |
