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| 8376930770 | African Diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. |  | 0 |
| 8376930771 | Benin | West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. |  | 1 |
| 8376930772 | 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 |
| 8376930773 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. |  | 3 |
| 8376930775 | 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. |  | 4 |
| 8376930776 | 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. |  | 5 |
| 8376930777 | 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. |  | 6 |
| 8376930780 | 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. |  | 7 |
| 8376930781 | Trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. |  | 8 |
| 8376930784 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. |  | 9 |
| 8376930791 | Samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. |  | 10 |
| 8376930792 | Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander. | | 11 |
| 8376986051 | transoceanic | crossing an ocean |  | 12 |
| 8377006386 | Caravel | small fast moving Spanish ship from the 15-17 centuries |  | 13 |
| 8377039078 | Carrack | three or four masted ship that was developed in Europe around the 14-15 centuries |  | 14 |
| 8377057885 | Fluyt | A dutch sailing vessel designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel | 15 |
