The terms and definitions for the vocabulary terms in Ways of the World: Chapter 15.
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| 6165986150 | trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 0 | |
| 6165986151 | Tokugawa shogunate | Military rulers of Japan who successfully united Japan politically by the seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments. | 1 | |
| 6165986152 | Spanish Philippines | An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization; the Spanish named them the Philippine Islands after King Philip II of Spain. | 2 | |
| 6165986153 | "soft gold" | Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those who engaged in it. | 3 | |
| 6165986154 | "silver drain" | Term often used 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. | 4 | |
| 6165986155 | shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander. | 5 | |
| 6165986156 | samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. | 6 | |
| 6165986157 | Potosi | City that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s. | 7 | |
| 6165986158 | 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. | 8 | |
| 6165986159 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 9 | |
| 6165986160 | Manila | Capitol of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. | 10 | |
| 6165986161 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521). | 11 | |
| 6165986162 | Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern area. | 12 | |
| 6165986163 | Indian Ocean commercial network | The massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern 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. | 13 | |
| 6165986164 | Hurons | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade. | 14 | |
| 6165986165 | daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. | 15 | |
| 6165986166 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. | 16 | |
| 6165986167 | cartaz | A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. | 17 | |
| 6165986168 | British/Dutch East India companies | Private trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples. | 18 | |
| 6165986169 | 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. | 19 | |
| 6165986170 | Benin | West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. | 20 | |
| 6165986171 | African diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. | 21 |
