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| 5812528712 | Atlantic Colonies | British colonies in North America along atlantic coast. | 0 | |
| 5812528713 | Bengal Region | Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century | 1 | |
| 5812528714 | Boer | Dutch settlers in Cape colony in Southern Africa | 2 | |
| 5812528715 | Calcutta | Headquarters of British East India Company in Bengal in Indian subcontinent;located on Ganges; captured in 1756 during early part of Seven Years War; later became administrative center for all of Bengal. | 3 | |
| 5812528716 | Canada Settlements | First substantial european settlements were launched by the French government under louis XIV. By 1755 New France (Canada) had about 55,000 settlers in a peasant society. | 4 | |
| 5812528717 | Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa; first circum navigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India. | 5 | |
| 5812528718 | Ceylon (Sri-Lanka) | Used by Britain to grow tea. They leveled the land and then created tea plantations. Now known as Sri-Lanka; large center of commerce. | 6 | |
| 5812528719 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese captain in service of King and Queen of Castile and Aragon; successfully sailed to New World and returned in 1492; indicated European discoveries in America. | 7 | |
| 5812528720 | Columbian Exchange | Biological and ecological exchange that took place following Spanish establishment of colonies in Neww World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to New World; animals, plants and diseases of two hemispheres were transferred. | 8 | |
| 5812528721 | Core Nation | Nations, usually European, that enjoyed profit from world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services such as shipping; exported manufactured goods for raw materials. | 9 | |
| 5812528722 | Dutch Settlement | New York began as a Dutch settlement but was taken over easily by an English expedition in 1664. | 10 | |
| 5812528723 | East Indian Companies | These companies were given government monopolies of trade in the regions designated, but they were not rigorously supervised by their own states. They had the right to raise armies and coin money on their own. | 11 | |
| 5812528724 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 12 | |
| 5812528725 | Goa | Portuguese factory or fortified trad town located on western Indian coast; site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network. | 13 | |
| 5812528726 | Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese Prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of western European expansion. | 14 | |
| 5812528727 | Lepanto | Naval battle between the Spanish and the Ottoman empire resulting in a Spanish victory in 1571. | 15 | |
| 5812528728 | Macao | One of two parts in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty. | 16 | |
| 5812528729 | Mercantilism | Economic theory that stressed governments promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. | 17 | |
| 5812528730 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Indian ancestry in Meso America and South America; particularly prevalent in areas colonized by Spain; of ten part of forced labor system. | 18 | |
| 5812528731 | Mughal Empire | Established by Babur in India in 1526; the name is taken from the supposed Mongol descent of Babur, but there is little indication of any Mongol influence in the dynasty; became weak after rule of Aurangzeb in first decades of 18th century. | 19 | |
| 5812528732 | Nagasaki | Trading port, after Jesuit disputes, only the Dutch were allowed to reside here, and only for 2-3 months at a time. | 20 | |
| 5812528733 | 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. | 21 | |
| 5812528734 | Treaty of Paris | Arranged in 1763 following Seven Years War; granted New France to England in exchange for return of French sugar island in Caribbean. | 22 | |
| 5812528735 | Vasco de Balboa | (1475-1519) First Spanish captain to begin settlement on the mainland of Mesoamerica in1509; initial settlement eventually led to conquest of Aztec and Inca empires by other captains. | 23 | |
| 5812528736 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer; in 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. | 24 | |
| 5812528737 | Vinland | An unidentified coastal region of northeast North America visited by Norse voyagers as early as 1000 C.E. The region, variously located from Labrador to New Jersey; was named for the grapes growing plentifuly in the area. | 25 | |
| 5812528738 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony establishment 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. | 26 | |
| 5812538194 | 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. | 27 | |
| 5812546447 | Dependent Economic Zones | Regions within the world economy that produced raw materials; dependent on European markets and shipping; tendency to build systems based on forced and cheap labor. | 28 | |
| 5812553434 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) | 29 | |
| 5812555067 | New France | French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to the British in 1763. | 30 |
