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| 3833020797 | Henry the Navigator | This Portuguese prince gained fame for supporting exploration with the goal of capturing territory and converting people to Christianity. | 0 | |
| 3833027896 | The Encomienda System | Although designed to protect indigenous peoples, this labor system, established in 1503 by the Spanish, often resulted in further exploitation. | 1 | |
| 3833046062 | City of Tenochtitlan | This capital city of the Aztec Empire, built on reclaimed swampland, is the location of modern-day Mexico City. | 2 | |
| 3833051410 | The Treaty of Tordesillas | This agreement between Spain and Portugal established a dividing line of territorial acquisition in the Americas. | 3 | |
| 3833056432 | The Quipu | This Inca system of record keeping used knots on strings to keep track of information such as census data. | 4 | |
| 3833060996 | Confucius | The Ming Dynasty creation an examination for civil servants in China based on the teachings of this man. | 5 | |
| 3833066600 | The Dutch East India Company | This merchant company, founded in 1602 in Amsterdam, was the effective ruler of Dutch colonial possessions in the Asia. | 6 | |
| 3833072659 | Galileo Galilei | This Italian scientist challenged the Catholic church by supporting the heliocentric theory and was called before the Inquisition. | 7 | |
| 3833079749 | The Mughal Empire | This dynasty became dominant in South Asia and reached its height under the leadership of Akbar the Great. | 8 | |
| 3833084335 | The Tokugawa Shogunate | This dynasty in Japan saw the rise of the shoguns and the establishment of a capital at Edo (now Tokyo). | 9 | |
| 3833105778 | Janissaries | These individuals, who were captured as Christian youths from the Balkans, made up the elite corps in the Ottoman military. | 10 | |
| 3833111997 | Peter the Great | This Russian tsar, who built a new capital at St. Petersburg, is most known for Westernizing Russia. | 11 | |
| 3833118179 | The Safavid Empire | This Shi'ite Persian dynasty conflicted with the Sunni Ottoman Empire over both religion and territory. | 12 | |
| 3833122144 | Mercantilism | This economic theory, which was dominant in 17th and 18th century Europe, emphasized the role of international economics in interstate competition. | 13 | |
| 3833126751 | The Thirty Years' War | Initially a war between Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmenting Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe. | 14 | |
| 3833131902 | Virginia | This English colony in North America had an export economy based primarily on tobacco production. | 15 | |
| 3833134223 | Viceroyalties | The Spanish divided their holdings in the new world into four of these administrative regions, including New Spain and La Plata. | 16 | |
| 3833148810 | The Iroquois Confederacy | This was an alliance among the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples. | 17 | |
| 3833153776 | Syncretic religion | Voodoo and the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe are examples of this type of religion, which fuse cultural elements from more than one tradition. | 18 | |
| 3833158930 | Mestizo | This term, one of many new ethnic categories in New World societies, was used to describe a person of both Amerindian and Spanish ethnicity. | 19 | |
| 3833166982 | Sugar | The Atlantic Plantation system utilized African slave labor to produce large quantities of agricultural products, particularly this product, for international markets. | 20 | |
| 3833168536 | The smallpox | The most deadly of the early epidemics brought to the Americas from Europe was ________. | 21 | |
| 3833173900 | Manumission | This term refers to the voluntary freeing of slaves by their masters. | 22 | |
| 3833177152 | The Mita System | This system of compulsory labor in the Americas originated with the Inca but was adopted by the Spanish particular for use in silver mines. | 23 | |
| 3833180519 | King Afonso | This king of the Kongo initially converted to Catholicism and participated in the slave trade but later complained to the Portuguese about the number of slaves being taken from his Kingdom. | 24 | |
| 3833251981 | Indulgences | Forgiveness of punishment due to past sins | 25 | |
| 3833255027 | The Institutes of the Christian Religion | The Protestant leader John Calvin formulated a different theological position in this book. | 26 | |
| 3833260145 | Predestined | Calvin argued that salvation was God's gift to those who were ________and that Christian congregations should be self-governing and stress simplicity in life and in worship. | 27 | |
| 3833264798 | Papacy | The central government of Latin Christianity. | 28 | |
| 3833269990 | Pope Leo X | He was the overseer of the design and financing of the new Saint Peter's Basilica. | 29 | |
| 3833274007 | Nicholas Copernicus | The Polish monk and mathematician that formulated a theory that our solar system is sun-centered. | 30 | |
| 3833279003 | Isaac Newton | He formulated a set of mathematical laws that all physical objects obeyed. | 31 | |
| 3833283329 | Galileo Galilei | This Italian built a telescope through which he took a closer look at the heavens. | 32 | |
| 3833287958 | The Enlightenment | The intellectual movement, which assumed that social behavior and institutions were governed by scientific laws, is called _________. | 33 | |
| 3833291288 | The Starry Messenger | The name of Galileo's book that was put on the Index of Forbidden Books. | 34 | |
| 3833296481 | The Horse | This European animal had the greatest impact on the lifestyle of Amerindians. | 35 | |
| 3833307091 | Malaria | The deadliest form of this disease arrived with the African slave trade. | 36 | |
| 3833319243 | Potatos | New World foods that included maize, manioc and ________ revolutionized agriculture and diet in Europe. | 37 | |
| 3833325484 | Sugar | This export product dominated the Brazilian economy by the seventeenth century. | 38 | |
| 3833330734 | Mulattos | Individuals of mixed European and African descent. | 39 | |
| 3833335423 | Indentured servants | This was the new system of compulsory labor to the American landscape. | 40 | |
| 3833340612 | The Puritans | They wanted to abolish the hierarchy of bishops and priests in the Church of England. | 41 | |
| 3833347891 | The Iroquois | The Amerindian enemies of the French were the ________. | 42 | |
| 3833354482 | Zheng He | He carried out grand scale voyages for the Ming Dynasty between 1405 and 1433. | 43 | |
| 3833359384 | Humanism | This term refers to a literary movement that many people associate with Dante. | 44 | |
| 3833364434 | Versailles | Louis XIV's gigantic new palace was built here. | 45 | |
| 3833369678 | The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). | Ignatius of Loyola founded this society. | 46 | |
| 3833380277 | The Treaty of Tordesillas | The Treaty between Spain and Portugal divided the world between them along a line drawn down the center of the North Atlantic. | 47 |
