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| 1071062465 | the great dying | The massive epidemic caused by Old World diseases (zoonoses) after Columbian Exchange. It killed around 90% of the Native American (it also happened in parts of Asia and the Polynesian Islands). | 0 | |
| 1071062466 | Columbian exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 1 | |
| 1071062467 | peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class. | 2 | |
| 1071062468 | mestizo | A new racial concept that develops in Latin America following the intermixing that occurred between European colonists and the native American population. | 3 | |
| 1071062469 | mulattoes | In colonial Latin America, Spanish/African who were denied basic political, economic, and social rights due to their mixed heritage. | 4 | |
| 1071062470 | settler colonies | Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region; particularly noteworthy in the case of the British colonies in North America. | 5 | |
| 1071062471 | Siberia | A region of central and eastern Russia, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, known for its mineral resources and for being a place of political exile | 6 | |
| 1071062472 | yasak | Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia, most often in the form of fur | 7 | |
| 1071062473 | Qing dynasty empire | 1644-1912, the dynasty that helped expand the dynasy north by enlarging the territoril sixe of the country, assimeilated into the Manchus and and produced a mixed race | 8 | |
| 1071062474 | Mughal Empire | Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 9 | |
| 1071062475 | Akbar | Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. | 10 | |
| 1071062476 | Aurangzeb | 1658-1707, Mughal emperor in India and great-grandson of Akbar 'the Great', under whom the empire reached its greatest extent, only to collapse after his death | 11 | |
| 1071062477 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 12 | |
| 1071062478 | Constatinople, 1453 | New capital city for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, established by the Roman emperor in 330 C.E. on the site of an ancient Greek city; the new capital city's highly defensible and economically important site helped assure the city's cultural and strategic importance for many centuries. | 13 | |
| 1071062479 | devshirme | in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers | 14 |
