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| 319043158 | Grand Canal | The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire. (p. 277) | |
| 319043159 | The silver islands | Term used by European merchants in the sixteenth century to refer to Japan, because of its substantial trade in silver with China. | |
| 319043160 | Caravans | groups of people traveling together for safety over long distances | |
| 319043161 | Caravansarais | Inns constructed along major trade routes that accommodated large numbers of traders, their animals, and their wares. | |
| 319043162 | Conversos | Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity, either willingly or unwillingly, following the Christian takeover of Spain | |
| 319043163 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. (p. 427) | |
| 319043164 | Carrack | a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | |
| 319043165 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | |
| 319043166 | Atlantic System | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497) | |
| 319043167 | Encomiendas | rights to demand taxes or labor from Native Americans | |
| 319043168 | Encomenderos | The encomienda is a labor system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. In the encomienda, the crown granted a person a specified number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility. The receiver of the grant was to protect the natives from warring tribes and to instruct them in the Spanish language and in the Catholic faith.[1] In return, they could exact tribute from the natives in the form of labor, gold or other products, such as in corn, wheat or chickens., Spanish settlers who were in charge of the natives working on the encomiendas | |
| 319043169 | Conquistador | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | |
| 319043170 | Tlaxcalans | Partner up with Cortez and take down Aztecs. For every 1 spaniard, there are 200 of these guys. | |
| 319043171 | Tarascans | A mesoamerican people who were located to the west of the Aztecs., rivals to and subjects of Aztecs, 15th cent | |
| 319043172 | Quetzalcoatl | Aztec nature god, feathered serpent, his disappearance and promised return coincided with the arrival of Cortes | |
| 319043173 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Indian ancestry in Mesoamerica and South America; particularly prevalent in areas colonized by Spain; often part of forced labor system. | |
| 319043174 | Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches | |
| 319043175 | Protestantism | the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation | |
| 319043176 | Catholicism | the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church Roman Catholic Cruch, East | |
| 319043177 | Counter-Reformation | the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected) | |
| 319043178 | Huguenot | french calvinist protestant, received persecution | |
| 319043179 | Treaty of Tordesillas | a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. | |
| 319043180 | Jesuit | Religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola to counter the inroads of the Protestant Reformation; the Jesuits were active in politics, education, and missionary work. |
