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| 5460555107 | British East India Company | A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political, social, and economic life in India for more than 200 years. |  | 0 |
| 5460555108 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for the Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with Bantus. |  | 1 |
| 5460555111 | Colombian Exchange | the trading of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa |  | 2 |
| 5460555112 | Core Nations | Nations, usually European, that enjoyed profit from world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services such as shipping; exported manufactured goods for raw materials. |  | 3 |
| 5460555114 | Henry The Navigator | This Portuguese prince who lead an extensive effort to promote seafaring expertise in the 14th century. Sent many expedition to the coast of West Africa in the 15th century, leading Portugal to discover a route around Africa, ultimately to India. |  | 4 |
| 5460555116 | Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer who started exploring the east African coast and eventually reached Calicut on the southwestern coast of India; gave Portugal a direct sea route to India |  | 5 |
| 5460555117 | Vasco de Balboa | First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513. |  | 6 |
| 5460555119 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. |  | 7 |
| 5460555120 | Treaty of Paris | Concluded in 1763 after the Seven Years War; Britain gained New France and ended France's importance in India |  | 8 |
| 5460555122 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. |  | 9 |
| 5460555125 | Boers | Also known as Afrikaners, the sector of the white population of South Africa that was descended from early Dutch settlers |  | 10 |
| 5460555126 | Mestizos | A new racial concept that develops in Latin America following the intermixing that occurred between European colonists and the native American population. |  | 11 |
| 5460555130 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541). |  | 12 |
| 5460555136 | William Penn | Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718). Founded it so others could be free of persecution. |  | 13 |
| 5460555142 | Emperor Atahualpa | Ruler who's father was killed by infectious disease , gained throne by killing his half brother in civil war and was executed by Francisco Pizarro. | 14 | |
| 5460555143 | 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 |  | 15 |
| 5460725718 | Battle of Lepanto | Naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman empire resulting in Spanish victory in 1571. Demonstrated European naval superiority over Muslims | 16 | |
| 5460746265 | the Line of demarcation | imaginary longitude, moved slightly from line drawn by Pope Alexander VI; divided new lands claimed by Portugal from those of Spain (1493) | 17 | |
| 5460746266 | gunpowder | European knowledge of explosives -> Chinese invention; adapted into gunnery | 18 | |
| 5460749743 | Dutch East India Company | joint stock company; obtained government monopoly over trade in Asia; acted as independent government in regions claimed; not supervised by own states; rights to raise armies and coin money on own | 19 | |
| 5460749744 | compass | During 15th century; Europeans; used compass for navigation; copied from Arabs -> who learned from Chinese | 20 | |
| 5460749937 | caravel | small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in 15th century by Portuguese to explore along west African coast and into Atlantic Ocean | 21 | |
| 5460752547 | Cabot | c. 1450 - c. 1500); was a Genoese navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European exploration of the mainland of North America since the Norse Vikings' visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. | 22 | |
| 5460752548 | Cabral | Portuguese leader of an expedition in India; blown off course in 1500 and landed in Brazil | 23 | |
| 5460755269 | Hudson | 24 | ||
| 5460755270 | Dias | 25 | ||
| 5460758720 | Ferdinand and Isabella | 26 | ||
| 5460758721 | Drake | 27 | ||
| 5460763450 | tariffs | 28 | ||
| 5460763451 | proletariat | class of working people without access to producing property; typically manufacturing workers, paid laborers in agricultural economy, or urban poor, in Europe, product of economic changes of 16th and 17th centuries | 29 | |
| 5460768064 | domestic manufacturing system | 30 | ||
| 5460768065 | cash crops | 31 | ||
| 5460769932 | capitalism | 32 | ||
| 5460769933 | the Levelers | The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil War (1642-1651) that emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance, all of which were expressed in the manifesto "Agreement of the People". In contrast to the Diggers, the Levellers opposed common ownership, except in cases of mutual agreement of the property owners. The Levellers came to prominence at the end of the First English Civil War (1642-1646) and were most influential before the start of the Second Civil War (1648-1649). Leveller views and support were found in the populace of the City of London and in some regiments in the New Model Army. The term "leveller" had been used in 17th-century England as a term of abuse for rural rebels | 33 | |
| 5460772769 | inflation | 34 | ||
| 5460774391 | flying shuttle | 35 | ||
| 5460777807 | The Seven Years' War | fought both in continental Europe and also in overseas colonies between 1756 and 1763; resulted in Prussian seizures of land from Austria, English seizures of colonies in India and North America | 36 |
