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| 10050395443 | world economy | created by Europeans during the late 16th century; based on control of the seas; established an international exchange of foods, diseases, and manufactured products. | 0 | |
| 10050395444 | Cape of Good Hope | southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India. | 1 | |
| 10050395445 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator in the service of Aragon and Castile; sailed west to find a route to India and instead came upon the Americas in 1492. | 2 | |
| 10050466087 | Amerigo Vespucci | Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer during the Age of Exploration, the first person to recognize North and South America as distinct continents. He made his discovery while sailing near the tip of South America in 1501. | 3 | |
| 10050545509 | Ferdinand Magellan | Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, which he could not complete | 4 | |
| 10050552299 | Spanish Armada | Great fleet of ships sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders. | 5 | |
| 10050395446 | Dutch East India Company | Founded in 1602, flourished for two centuries. A combination of commercial organizations in various cities of Holland and Zeeland, traded both in Asia and between Asia and Europe. Had a monopoly on trade for a while in Japan. | 6 | |
| 10050395447 | Lepanto | naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman Empire resulting in Spanish victory in 1571; demonstrated European naval superiority over Muslims. | 7 | |
| 10050395448 | core nations | nations, usually European, that profited from the world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services; exported manufactured goods and imported raw materials. | 8 | |
| 10050395449 | mercantilism | the colonial economic policy, by which a colonizing nation must import only from its own colonies, but sell exports as widely as possible. | 9 | |
| 10050395450 | mestizos | people of mixed European and Native American heritage. | 10 | |
| 10050395451 | Vasco Balboa | (1475?-1517), Spanish adventurer; explored Central America. | 11 | |
| 10050395452 | Francisco Pizarro | (1478-1541); Spanish explorer; arrived in the Americas in 1502; joined Balboa in Panama, then successfully attacked the Inca Empire. | 12 | |
| 10050395453 | New France | French colonies in Canada and elsewhere; extended along St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes and down Mississippi River valley system. | 13 | |
| 10050395454 | Seven Years' War | fought in Europe, Africa, and Asia between 1756 and 1763; the first worldwide war. | 14 | |
| 10050395455 | Treaty of Paris | concluded in 1763 following the Seven Years' War; Britain gained New France and ended France's importance in India. | 15 | |
| 10050395456 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to provide a coastal station for Dutch ships traveling to and from Asia; settlers expanded and fought with Bantu and other Africans. | 16 | |
| 10050395457 | Boers | Dutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony before 19th-century British occupation; later called Afrikaners. | 17 | |
| 10050395458 | Calcutta | British East India Company headquarters in Bengal; captured in 1756 by Indians; later became administrative center for populous Bengal. | 18 | |
| 10050395475 | Which of these was the economic policy that argued that a state should buy only from its own empire? | mercantilism | 19 | |
| 10050395476 | The children of European and Native American unions were ________. | mestizos | 20 | |
| 10050395477 | The policy of mercantilism was based on ________. | competition | 21 | |
| 10050451254 | Henry the Navigator | a prince that helped fund Portuguese expansion and laid the foundation for future explorers Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama. | 22 | |
| 10050545508 | Mughal Empire | empire in the Indian subcontinent, founded in 1526 | 23 | |
| 10050660644 | British East India Company | privately owned company which was established to create profitable trade with countries in the region of Asia called the "East Indies". Granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, maintained a monopoly on the importation of exotic goods from India into Britain. Also maintained a standing military. | 24 | |
| 10050673684 | Columbian Exchange | The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries | 25 | |
| 10052830818 | Nagasaki | Portuguese Nagasaki refers to the period during which the city of Nagasaki was under foreign administration, between the years of 1580 and 1586. Originally granted to the Jesuits, it was jointly administered by a representative of the Portuguese Crown when present, as per Portuguese rights of Padroado. | 26 | |
| 10052841307 | Atahuallpa | last Inca Emperor. After defeating his brother, Atahualpa became very briefly the last Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest. | 27 | |
| 10052884165 | John Locke | famous philosopher and political theorist of the 17th century. Often regarded as the founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism, and he made foundational contributions to modern theories of limited, liberal government. | 28 | |
| 10052895579 | "Black Hole of Calcutta" | a small dungeon in the old Fort William in Calcutta, India, where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of the fort on 20 June 1756. | 29 | |
| 10052902149 | Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | During the Napoleonic Wars, fearing that French control of the Netherlands might deliver Sri Lanka to the French, Great Britain occupied the coastal areas of the island of Sri Lanka (which they called Ceylon) | 30 |
