9952411782 | Zheng He | Voyaged on the Indian Ocean 1405-1433 | 0 | |
9952418664 | Emperor Yongle | The Yongle Emperor — personal name Zhu Di — was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. Zhu Di was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty | 1 | |
9952427402 | Renaissance | A time of ideas and spread of technology. There was a lot of competition between city-states. | 2 | |
9952342601 | Colombian Exchange | widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World | 3 | |
9952436806 | Vasco de Gama | A Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. - sailed from Lisbon in 1497 on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East. De Gama received a hero's welcome back in Portugal, and was sent on a second expedition to India in 1502 | 4 | |
9952465645 | Turks | a member of any of the ancient central Asian peoples who spoke Turkic languages, including the Seljuks and Ottomans. Comes from Ottoman | 5 | |
9952473464 | Sonni Ali | - He reigned from about 1464 to 1492. Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty. - expanded a small kingdom along the Niger River into one of medieval Africa's greatest empires. | 6 | |
9952477007 | Mughals | - a member of the Muslim dynasty of Mongol - origin founded by the successors of Tamerlane, which ruled much of India from the 16th to the 19th century. - The Mughal Empire or Mogul Empire was an empire in the Indian subcontinent, founded in 1526. It was established and ruled by a Muslim dynasty with Turco-Mongol Chagatai roots from Central Asia. They were a gunpowder empre united much of India | 7 | |
9952480325 | Malacca | State in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula: formerly a part of the British Straits Settlements and of the Federation of Malaya. 640 sq. mi. (1658 sq. km). A seaport in and the capital of this state. A strait between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. | 8 | |
9952486945 | Triple Alliance | Triple Alliance, secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. | 9 | |
9952490504 | Pochteca | Professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. They were a small, but important class as they not only facilitated commerce, but also communicated vital information across the empire and beyond its borders. | 10 | |
9952494492 | Mita | A system in which the crown allowed elite colonists to recruit the native people into forced labor ( the Repartimiento in the Incan Empire) | 11 | |
9952342603 | Encomienda | Encommienda was a labor system in Spain and its empire. It rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subject people. It was first established in Spain during the Roman period, but used also following the Christian conquest of Muslim territories | 12 | |
9952342604 | Repartimiento | colonial forced labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines. In concept it was similar to other tribute-labor systems, such as the mita of the Inca Empire | 13 | |
9952342606 | peninsulares | Spaniard's born in Spain | 14 | |
9952342605 | Hacienda | This system once dictated the use and ownership of ranches, plantations, other commercial estates throughout the Spanish Colonial world. The Spanish crown gave land to the conquistadors for their work colonizing. | 15 | |
9952342607 | Creoles | Spaniard's born in Americans | 16 | |
9952342608 | Mestizos and Mestizas | Indian and Spaniard | 17 | |
9952342609 | castas | system of race classification in Hispanic America, race based hierarchy | 18 | |
9952342602 | Mercantilism | national economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and, historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver. | 19 | |
9952342610 | Catherine the Great | empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796 the country's longest-ruling female leader expanded the empire and open to Enlightenment ideals, supported Western ideals Roughly two-thirds of Poland were annexed to the Russian border in pieces in 1772, 1793 and 1795. | 20 | |
9952342611 | Peter the Great | ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 | 21 | |
9952342612 | Treaty of Nerchinsk | peace settlement between Russia and the Manchu Chinese empire that checked Russia's eastward expansion by removing its outposts from the Amur River basin. | 22 | |
9952342613 | Akbar | third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605 | 23 | |
9952342614 | Aurangzeb | sixth Mughal emperor. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707 | 24 | |
9952342615 | devshirme | sultan would collect Christian boys from the Balkans and turn them into his slaves. | 25 | |
9952342616 | Trading Post Empire | establishment where the trading of goods took place; | 26 | |
9952342617 | Cartaz | naval trade license or pass issued by the Portuguese in the Indian ocean during the sixteenth century | 27 | |
9952342618 | British East India Company EIC | an English and later British formed to pursue trade in the West Indies | 28 | |
9952342619 | Dutch 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. | 29 | |
9952342620 | Tokugawa Shogunate | was 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 clan | 30 | |
9952342621 | Manila | the capital of the Philippines, In the late 16th century Manila was a walled Muslim settlement whose ruler levied customs duties on all commerce passing up the Pasig River. | 31 | |
9952342622 | Potosi | a mountain and working silver mine south of the city | 32 | |
9952342623 | Middle Passage | the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. | 33 | |
9952342624 | African disapora | refers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa | 34 | |
9952342625 | Origin of the Word "slave" | comes from slavic | 35 | |
9952342626 | Cowie shells | Chinese currency | 36 | |
9952342627 | Queen Nzinga | 17th-century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola, she fought off the Portuguese from invading Angola and was a cross-dresser | 37 | |
9952342628 | Suleiman Diallo | Muslim who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade. | 38 | |
9952342629 | Martin Luther | German, and wrote the Ninety Five Theses and nailed it on to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. | 39 | |
9952342630 | Huguenots | is a group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition | 40 | |
9952342631 | Peace of Westphalia | was a series of peace treaties effectively ending the European wars of religion | 41 | |
9952342632 | Council of Trent | an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation. They meet on the Catholic side and the rules and practices they are going to have in their church restoration of what they belive argument is settled. | 42 | |
9952342633 | Society of Jesus | scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain. | 43 | |
9952342634 | Taki Onqoy movement | was a millenarian indigenous movement of political, religious and cultural dimensions which arose in the Peruvian Andes during the 16th century | 44 | |
9952342635 | Virigin of Guadalupe | a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mar | 45 | |
9952342636 | Matteo Ricci | an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. | 46 | |
9952342637 | Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab | a religious leader and theologian from Najd in central Arabia who founded the movement now called Wahhabism | 47 | |
9952342638 | Muhhammad Ibn Saud | he founder of the First Saudi State and the Saud dynasty, | 48 | |
9952342639 | Kaozheng | a school and approach to study and research in China from about 1600 to 1850. | 49 | |
9952342640 | Bhakti movement | theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism | 50 | |
9952736005 | Scientific Revolution | The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature. | 51 | |
9952736006 | Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton | Copernicus-heliocentric solar system and laws of planetary motion Kepler- laws of planetary motion Galileo- telescope discoveries Newton- Laws of Motion | 52 | |
9952737884 | Enlightenment | European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers | 53 | |
9952742480 | "Dutch Learning in Japan" | concerted effort by Japanese scholars during the late Tokugawa period (late 18th-19th century) to learn the Dutch language so as to be able to learn Western scientific learning and study their technology | 54 |
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