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| 5850521937 | Atlantic System | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. |  | 0 |
| 5850523747 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa. |  | 1 |
| 5850523748 | plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century. |  | 2 |
| 5850526006 | driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation. |  | 3 |
| 5850526007 | chartered companies | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies. |  | 4 |
| 5850527917 | manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. |  | 5 |
| 5850527918 | maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America. |  | 6 |
| 5850529453 | capitalism | An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |  | 7 |
| 5850531945 | mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought |  | 8 |
| 5850545274 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. |  | 9 |
| 5850545275 | Atlantic Circuit | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system. |  | 10 |
| 5850547241 | Middle Passage | The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. |  | 11 |
| 5850547242 | Songhai | a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591 |  | 12 |
| 5850547243 | Hausa | Peoples of northern Nigeria; formed states following the demise of Songhay Empire that combined Muslim and Pagan traditions |  | 13 |
| 5850549255 | Bornu | A powerful West African kingdom at the southern edge of the Sahara in the Central Sudan, which was important int trans-Saharan trade and in the spread of Islam. Endured form the ninth century to the end of the nineteenth. |  | 14 |
| 5850549256 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire. |  | 15 |
| 5850553317 | Suleiman the Magnificent | The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean. |  | 16 |
| 5850553318 | Janissaries | Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826. |  | 17 |
| 5850556071 | Tulip Period | Last years of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul. |  | 18 |
| 5850557798 | Safavid Empire | An empire in Iran which initially supported its calvary by way of land grants. The empire was very focused on land power. Chieftains, scholars, and notables served as intermediaries between the government and the people. |  | 19 |
| 5850562513 | Shiites | Muslims that believe that only direct descendants of Muhammad should become caliph |  | 20 |
| 5850573831 | Hidden Imam | 12th descendant of Ali who disappeared as a child |  | 21 |
| 5850575414 | Shah Abbas I | The fifth and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran. He moved the royal capital to Isfahan in 1598. |  | 22 |
| 5850575415 | Mughal Empire | Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |  | 23 |
| 5850578000 | 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. |  | 24 |
| 5850578001 | mansabs | In India, grants of land given in return for service by rulers of the Mughal Empire. |  | 25 |
| 5850581014 | Rajputs | Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar I married a Rajput princess. |  | 26 |
| 5850582490 | Acheh Sultanate | Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal in 1641. |  | 27 |
| 5850582491 | Oman | Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southwest region of the Arabian peninsula. Oman succeeded Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century. |  | 28 |
| 5850584372 | Swahili | Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa. |  | 29 |
| 5850584373 | Batavia | Fort established in 1619 as headquarters of Dutch East India Company operations in Indonesia; today the city of Jakarta. |  | 30 |
