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9131860171Trans-Oceanic Tradeglobal trading system in the Caribbean and the Americans trade networks extended to all corners of Atlantic Ocean0
9131860172Columbian ExchangeAn exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.1
9131860173MercantilismAn economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought2
9131860174Triangular TradeTrading System between Europe, Africa, and the colonies; European purchased slaves in Africa and sold them to colonies, new materials from colonies went to Europe while European finished products were sold in the colonies.3
9131860175Middle PassageA voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies4
9131860176CaravelA small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.5
9131860177Cartographythe science or the art of making maps6
9131860178Joint-stock companiesbusinesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses7
9131860179East India CompaniesBritish, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions.8
9131860180VodunAfrican religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti.9
9131860181Protestant ReformationA religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.10
9131860182Martin LutherA German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. He led the Protestant Reformation.11
913186018395 ThesesMartin Luther's ideas that he posted on the church door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation12
9131860184Catholic ReformationReligious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.13
9131860185JesuitsMembers of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.14
9131860186Scientific RevolutionA major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.15
9131860187ColumbusItalian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)16
9131860188MagellanPortuguese explorer who sailed around the Southern end of South America and eventually reached the Philippines, but was killed in a local war there17
9131860189Vasco da Gamathe first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.18
9131860190Zheng HeAn imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.19
9131860191Little Ice AgeTemporary but significant cooling period between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries; accompanied by wide temperature fluctuations, droughts, and storms, causing famines and dislocation.20
9131860192Chattel SlaveryAbsolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person.21
9131860193Plantation EconomyThis referred to the inefficient, slave-centered economy of the South where all land was used to grow large amounts of cash crops for export.22
9131860194Indentured servitudeA worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.23
9131860195Encomienda SystemSpaniards received grants of a number of Indians, from whom they could exact "tribute" in the form of gold or labor24
9131860196Hacienda Systemlanded estates granted to conquistadors25
9131860197Mita SystemThe system recruiting workers for particularly difficult and dangerous chores that free laborers would not accept.26
9131860198DevshirmeChristian boys, taken from the Balkan provinces, converted to Islam, and recruited by force to serve the Ottoman government. The boys must passed through a series of examinations to determine their intelligence and capabilities.27
9131860199JannisariesOttoman empire required non-Islamic families in the Balkans to give up their young boys to be a member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard28
9131860200Daimyo(in feudal Japan) one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun29
9131860201Peninsularea Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies30
9131860202Creolesa person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean31
9131860203MestizosA person of mixed Native American and European ancestry32
9131860204MulattosPersons of mixed European and African ancestry33
9131860205Sociedad de castasSpanish social system based on racial origins34
9131860206Commercial RevolutionA dramatic change in the economy of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. It is characterized by an increase in towns and trade, the use of banks and credit, and the establishment of guilds to regulate quality and price.35
9131860207Potosia city in Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center with the largest silver mountain36
9131860208Absolutismthe acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters37
9131860209*Louis XIV(1638-1715) Known as the Sun King, he was an absolute monarch that completely controlled France. One of his greatest accomplishments was the building of the palace at Versailles.38
9131860210*Phillip IIKing of Spain, 1556 - 1598; married to Queen Mary I of England;he was the most powerful monarch in Europe until 1588; controlled Spain, the Netherlands, the Spanish colonies in the New World, Portugal, Brazil, parts of Africa, parts of India, and the East Indies. He was also father to Alexander the Great.39
9131860211*Peter the Great(1672-1725) Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.40
9131860212*Parliamentary monarchyA government with a king or queen whose power is limited by the power of a parliament41
9131860213Divine RightsA belief of kings and monarchs that they have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin.42
9131860214VersaillesA palace built for Louis XIV near the town of Versailles, southwest of Paris. It was built around a chateau belonging to Louis XIII, which was transformed by additions in the grand French classical style43
9131860215Absolutismthe acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters44
9131860216Ottomans (Suleiman)Gun powder empire (Turkey)45
9131860217Safavids (Abbas)Gun powder empire (Persians)46
9131860218Mughals (Akbar, Aurangzeb)Gunpowder empire (India)47
9131860219European Empires in the AmericansGreat Britain, France, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark48
9131860220AztecsFrom their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, this empire emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization that brought many of the region's city-states under their control by the 15th century49
9131860221IncasA Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the empire.50
9131860222Ming-Dynasty - ChinaThe Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China—then known as the Empire of the Great Ming—for 276 years following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.51
9131860223Tokugawa ShogunateUnified daimyo (lords) to keep peace from 1600 to 1867 in Japan52
9131860224ConquistadorsEarly-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.)53
9131860225Thirty Year Wara series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, as well as the deadliest European religious war, resulting in eight million casualties.54
9131860226Treaty of WestphaliaEnded Thirty Years War in 1648; granted right to individual rulers within the Holy Roman Empire to choose their own religion-either Protestant or Catholic.55
9131860227English Civil Wara series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government56
9131860228Glorious RevolutionA reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange.57
9131860229Treaty of TordesillasA treaty signed by Portugal and Spain to divide the new world.58
9131860230Hernan Cortesa Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire59
9131860231Francisco PizzaroSpanish conquistador who conquered the Inca's60
9131860232Japan's Closed Country policyAs a result of Europeans entering and converting thousands to Christianity, the Shogun expelled or eliminated European entrance to the country61

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