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| 6211756293 | Indian Ocean Commercial Network | 1450-1750 : The massive, interconnected web of commerce in pre-modern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia). | 0 | |
| 6211756294 | Trading Post Empire | 1450-1750 : The Portuguese created this in the Indian Ocean; they aimed to control the commerce, not large territories or populations, and to do so by force of arms rather than by economic competition. | 1 | |
| 6211756295 | Philippines (Spanish) | 1450-1750 : An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization. | 2 | |
| 6211756296 | British/Dutch East India Companies | 1450-1750 : 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. | 3 | |
| 6211756297 | Tokugawa Shogunate | 1450-1750 : The military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments. | 4 | |
| 6211756298 | "Silver Drain" | 1450-1750 : 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 worlds silver supply make its way to China. | 5 | |
| 6211756299 | Potosi | 1450-1750 : City that developed high in the Andes (In present day Bolivia) at the site of the worlds largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570's. This city is sometimes referred to as a "portrait of hell". | 6 | |
| 6211756300 | "Soft Gold" | 1450-1750 : Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it. | 7 | |
| 6211756301 | African Diaspora | 1450-1750 : Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. The transatlantic spread of African peoples injected into these new societies issues of race that endure still in the twenty-first century. | 8 | |
| 6211756302 | Benin / Dahomey | 1450-1750 : A west-African kingdom ( in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kinds sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. A West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. | 9 | |
| 6211756304 | Ayuba Suleiman Diallo | 1701-1773, famous enslaved Muslim who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade, born in Bondu, Senegal, West Africa, memoirs published as one of the earliest first-person slave narratives, demonstrated the conditions and how it was very racially based. | 10 |
