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| 8001522651 | African Diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade |  | 0 |
| 8001529680 | Banda Islands | Infamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly the entire population of these nutmeg-producing islands was killed or enslaved and then replaced with Dutch planters. |  | 1 |
| 8001545440 | Benin | West African kingdom(in what is now Nigeria)whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade |  | 2 |
| 8001552610 | British/Dutch East India companies | Private trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; the were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples. |  | 3 |
| 8001568805 | cartaz | A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. |  | 4 |
| 8001575216 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. |  | 5 |
| 8001583585 | daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors |  | 6 |
| 8001592329 | Hurons | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade. |  | 7 |
| 8001602733 | Indian Ocean commercial network | The massive, interconnected web of commerce in pre-modern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500. |  | 8 |
| 8001631365 | Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era. |  | 9 |
| 8001635325 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521) |  | 10 |
| 8001643697 | Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. |  | 11 |
| 8001651390 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. |  | 12 |
| 8001657804 | piece of eight | Standard Spanish coin that became a medium of exchange in North America, Europe, India, Russia and West Africa as well as in the Spanish Empire; so called because it was worth 8 reales. |  | 13 |
| 8001669851 | Potosi | City that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s. |  | 14 |
| 8001680275 | samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. |  | 15 |
| 8001683612 | shogun | In Japan, a supreme commander |  | 16 |
| 8001687012 | silver drain | Term often used, along with "specie drain" to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets; eventually the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China | 17 | |
| 8001717979 | soft gold | Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly values for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth from those engaged in it. |  | 18 |
| 8001727669 | Spanish Philippines | An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelizaton; the Spanish named them the Philippine Islands in honor of King Philip II of Spain |  | 19 |
| 8001745089 | Tokugawa shogunate | Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified japan politically by the early 17th century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments. |  | 20 |
| 8001758367 | trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. |  | 21 |
| 8001774105 | Atlantic Slave Trade | Lasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western African to the Americas. One part of the three-part economical system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade |  | 22 |
| 8001793772 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. |  | 23 |
| 8001799538 | Calicut | A city of southwest India on the Malabar Coast, southwest of Bangalore. It was the site of Vasco da Gama's first landfall in India (1498) and was later occupied by Portuguese, British, French and Danish trading colonies | 24 | |
| 8001816067 | Tropical Spices | Cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, and pepper. Spices that Europeans wanted to flavor rotten meat and preserve foods. |  | 25 |
| 8001822716 | Prester John | A mythical Christian monarch whose kingdom supposedly had been cut off from Europe by the Muslim conquests; some thought he was Chinggis Khan |  | 26 |
| 8001832726 | Mindanao | Southern island of the Philippines; a Muslim area able to successfully resist Spanish conquest. |  | 27 |
| 8001838974 | Bombay | A port city on India's west coast colonized by the British. |  | 28 |
| 8001845815 | Wang Dayue | 18th century Chinese poet who bemoaned the ecological devastation that deforestation brought to southern China | 29 | |
| 8001855837 | Algonquians | North American people that lived in southern New York State, in what is now Long Island and the Hudson River Valley. |  | 30 |
| 8001864058 | Wage Labor | A system of payment whereby workers are compensated on the bases of a wage not tied to the quality of the raw materials, accidents, or other needs in the production process. | 31 | |
| 8001870282 | Chattel Slavery | Ownership of human beings; a system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property. |  | 32 |
| 8001880040 | Indentured Servitude | An agreement to exchange labor for travel expenses an/or job training for a certain amount of time. | 33 | |
| 8001885454 | Plantation system | A system of agricultural production based on large-scale land ownership and the exploitation of labor and the environment. This system focused on the production of cash crops and utilized slave labor. |  | 34 |
| 8001895838 | Kongo | Central African state that began trading with the Portuguese around 1500; although their kings, such as King Alfonso I(r. 1506-1543), converted to Christianity, they nevertheless suffered from the slave trade. |  | 35 |
| 8001913305 | Manioc | The most important American crop introduced into Africa in the 16th century. |  | 36 |
| 8001924522 | Vice royalty of New Spain | The North American section of Spain's colonies established as a governing district by the Spanish king in the 1500s. | 37 | |
| 8001929503 | Vice royalty of Peru | A Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America; governed from the capital of Lima | 38 |
