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| 8895291641 | Cortés | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs in Mexico. | 0 | |
| 8895291642 | Doña Marina | Aztec woman who became an interpreter for Hernán Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec empire. | 1 | |
| 8895293067 | the Great Dying | the devastating demographic collapse of Native American societies (near extinction). |  | 2 |
| 8895294131 | Little Ice Age (General Crisis) | a period of unusually cool temperatures that spanned much of the early modern period and was especially prominent in the northern hemisphere | 3 | |
| 8895294132 | Columbian exchange | the enormous network of communication, migration, trade, disease, and the transfer of plants+animals from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa |  | 4 |
| 8895294133 | peninsulares | people who were born in Spain, but living in the New World (the Americas). Highest class. | 5 | |
| 8895296064 | mestizo | someone of mixed Native American and European descent | 6 | |
| 8895296065 | mulattoes | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |  | 7 |
| 8895296066 | plantation complex | agricultural system based on African slavery that was used in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern colonies of North America. |  | 8 |
| 8895296067 | settler colonies | colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region | 9 | |
| 8895297637 | Siberia | the remote, cold, and heavily forested eastern Russia | 10 | |
| 8895297638 | yasak | tribute that Russian authorities demanded from the natives of Siberia | 11 | |
| 8895297639 | Qing dynasty empire | Chinese empire whose rulers were originally from Manchuria. Brought Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet under Chinese control. |  | 12 |
| 8895298721 | Akbar | Mughal India's most famous emperor. Tried to accommodate the Hindu majority into the Mughal Empire by imposing a policy of toleration |  | 13 |
| 8895298722 | Aurangzeb | emperor who reversed Akbar's policy of accommodation and sought to impose Islamic supremacy |  | 14 |
| 8895299240 | Constantinople | a large and wealthy city that was the capital of the Byzantine empire |  | 15 |
| 8895299241 | devshirme | annual practice by which the Ottoman Empire sent military to abduct boys (sons of their Christian subjects) who were then converted to Islam, and trained for either civil administration or military service in elite Janissary units (Janissaries are the elite infantry unit) | 16 |
