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8189665813Colombian Exchangewidespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World0
8189668111Merchantislimnational economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and, historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver.1
8189673518EncomiendaSpanish ruler choose certain Spanish people to give a certain amount of Native Americans to2
8189683482Repartimientomore power to Spanish crown (ruler) and their officials3
8189686909Haciendaowners of large estates employee native workers4
8189730925peninsularesSpaniard's born in Spain5
8189725470CreolesSpaniard's born in Americans6
8189737675Mestizos and MestizasIndian and Spainard7
8189742941castassystem of race classification in Hispanic America8
8447359500Catherine the Greatempress of Russia from 1762 to 1796 the country's longest-ruling female leader9
8447364575Peter the Greatruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 168210
8447367186Treaty of Nerchinskpeace settlement between Russia and the Manchu Chinese empire that checked Russia's eastward expansion by removing its outposts from the Amur River basin.11
8447367187Akbarthird Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 160512
8447370357Aurangzebsixth Mughal emperor. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 170713
8447372674devshirmesultan would collect Christian boys from the Balkans and turn them into his slaves.14
8447376817Trading Post Empireestablishment where the trading of goods took place;15
8447376818Cartaznaval trade license or pass issued by the Portuguese in the Indian ocean during the sixteenth century16
8447383111British East India Company EICan English and later British formed to pursue trade in the West Indies17
8447386784Dutch and India Company (VOC)founded in 1621 mainly to carry on economic warfare against Spain and Portugal by striking at their colonies in the West Indies and South America and on the west coast of Africa.18
8447389659Tokugawa Shogunatewas the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868. The head of government was the shogun, and each was a member of the Tokugawa clan19
8447397665Manilathe capital of the Philippines20
8447397666Potosia mountain and working silver mine south of the city21
8447400291Middle Passagethe sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.22
8447403052African disaporarefers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa23
8447406733Origin of the Word "slave"comes from slavic24
8447410380Cowie shellswere used for Chines currency25
8447444686Queen Nzunga17th-century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola26
8447449864Suleiman DialloMuslim who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade.27
8447456371Martin LutherGerman, and wrote the Ninety Five Theses and nailed it on to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church.28
8447456372Huguenotsis a group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed traditio29
8447467229Peace of Westphaliawas a series of peace treaties effectively ending the European wars of religion30
8447469600Council of Trentan ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation31
8447474931Society of Jesusscholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.32
8447478729Taki Onqoy movementwas a millenarian indigenous movement of political, religious and cultural dimensions which arose in the Peruvian Andes during the 16th century33
8447480983Virigin of Guadalupea Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mar34
8447483144Matteo Riccian Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.35
8447486731Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhaba religious leader and theologian from Najd in central Arabia who founded the movement now called Wahhabism36
8447491130Muhhammad Ibn Saudhe founder of the First Saudi State and the Saud dynasty,37
8447494387Kaozhenga school and approach to study and research in China from about 1600 to 1850.38
8447497612Bhakti movementtheistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism39

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