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| 5044935768 | African diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. |  | 0 |
| 5044941938 | Benin | West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. |  | 1 |
| 5044955695 | 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. |  | 2 |
| 5044960634 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. |  | 3 |
| 5044964177 | Ayuba Suleiman Diallo | sold into slavery in West Africa and transported to work on a plantation in Maryland in 1730, this well-educated Muslim(1700-1773) became a celebrity in England because of his life story. He returned to his home in West Africa in 1734 after philanthropists bought his freedom. |  | 4 |
| 5044971327 | 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. |  | 5 |
| 5044978234 | Potosi | City that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s. |  | 6 |
| 5044983353 | Silver Drain | Term often used, along with "specie drain" 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. |  | 7 |
| 5044992440 | Philippines (Spanish) | An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process 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 in honor of King Philip II of Spain. |  | 8 |
| 5045001137 | Tokugawa shogunate | Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments. |  | 9 |
| 5045006380 | Trading post empire | form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. |  | 10 |
| 5045008494 | Banda Islands | Infamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly the entire population of these nut-meg producing islands was killed or enslaved and then replaced with Dutch planters. |  | 11 |
| 5045015439 | Cartaz | A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. |  | 12 |
| 5045018657 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. |  | 13 |
| 5045020454 | Hurons | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade. |  | 14 |
| 5045026135 | Little Ice Age | a period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era. |  | 15 |
| 5045028678 | Magellan, Ferdinand | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521) |  | 16 |
| 5045031931 | Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. |  | 17 |
| 5045036941 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. |  | 18 |
| 5045041370 | 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. |  | 19 |
| 5045047066 | Samurai | the warrior elite of medieval Japan |  | 20 |
| 5045049589 | Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander |  | 21 |
