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| 13744446700 | Trans-Oceanic Trade | global trading system in the Caribbean and the Americans trade networks extended to all corners of Atlantic Ocean | 0 | |
| 13744446701 | Columbian Exchange | An 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 |
| 13744446702 | Mercantilism | An 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 bought | 2 | |
| 13744446706 | Joint-stock companies | businesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses | 3 | |
| 13744446717 | Plantation Economy | This referred to the inefficient, slave-centered economy of the South where all land was used to grow large amounts of cash crops for export. | 4 | |
| 13744446719 | Encomienda System | Spaniards received grants of a number of Indians, from whom they could exact "tribute" in the form of gold or labor | 5 | |
| 13744446721 | Devshirme | Christian boys, taken from the Balkan provinces, converted to Islam, and recruited by force to serve the Ottoman government. | 6 | |
| 13744446723 | Daimyo | (in feudal Japan) one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun | 7 | |
| 13744446728 | Commercial Revolution | A 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. | 8 | |
| 13744446734 | Divine Rights | A belief of kings and monarchs that they have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin. | 9 | |
| 13744446736 | Safavids (Abbas) | Gun powder empire (Persians) | 10 | |
| 13744446737 | Mughals (Akbar, Aurangzeb) | Gunpowder empire (India) | 11 | |
| 13744446741 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Unified daimyo (lords) to keep peace from 1600 to 1867 in Japan | 12 | |
| 13744446756 | Women's Rights in the Ottoman Empire | could own property and retain it after marriage. Could buy, sell, and inherit real estate. Could also testify for themselves in court. | 13 | |
| 13744446757 | Japanese social structure | based on a feudal system that divided people by class and or occupation. | 14 | |
| 13744446758 | social stratification | a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy | 15 |
