WHAP students, please use this set to review the Vocab.
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| 5803232377 | Astrolabe | an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets, also an early form of the sextant | 0 | |
| 5803232378 | Middle Passage | the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas | 1 | |
| 5803232379 | Caravel | a small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 2 | |
| 5803232380 | Joint-Stock Company | business entity which is owned by shareholders. | 3 | |
| 5803232381 | Royal Chartered Monopoly Company | joint stock company that obtained a monopoly | 4 | |
| 5803232382 | Manchus | Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the last of China's imperial dynasties. | 5 | |
| 5803232383 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 6 | |
| 5803232384 | Cash Crops | crops, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities in order to be sold for profit, grown in the New World and sent back to Europe in the Triangle Trade. | 7 | |
| 5803232385 | Vodun | african religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. | 8 | |
| 5803232386 | Cult of Saints | in the Americas, it was the adoption of Christianity, but still keeping old gods to match Christian ones | 9 | |
| 5803232387 | Lady of Guadalupe | an Indian version of Mary seen by an Indian, and is an example of the Cult of Saints | 10 | |
| 5803232388 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 11 | |
| 5803232389 | Divine Right | belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. | 12 | |
| 5803232390 | Devshirme | in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers | 13 | |
| 5803232391 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America, ruled, and was the highest social class | 14 | |
| 5803232392 | Jesuits | members 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. | 15 | |
| 5803232393 | Kaozheng Movement | the Chinese equivalent of the Scientific Revolution | 16 | |
| 5803232394 | Shogun | the supreme military commander of Japan | 17 | |
| 5803232395 | Chattel Slavery | ownership of human beings; a system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought as sold like property | 18 | |
| 5803232396 | Indentured Servitude | person who agreed to work for a colonial employer for a specified time in exchange for passage to America. | 19 | |
| 5803232397 | Encomienda | a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it | 20 | |
| 5803232398 | Hacienda | the main house on a ranch or large estate, usually a Plantation | 21 | |
| 5803232399 | Spanish Mita | way that colonial powers get goods they want without slaves/forced labor, bully countries into producing what they want them to | 22 | |
| 5803232400 | Daimyo | a japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 23 | |
| 5803232401 | Creoles | descendants of Spanish-born BUT born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status, second in power behind peninsulares | 24 | |
| 5803232402 | Commercial Entrepreneur | someone who started their own business in order to make a profit by selling goods | 25 | |
| 5803232403 | Zamindars | Hindu nobles, kept a portion of taxes paid by the local peasants, expected to forward the rest of their taxes from the land to the central government | 26 | |
| 5803232404 | Mestizo | a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry | 27 | |
| 5803232405 | Mulatto | the term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent. | 28 | |
| 5803232406 | Republica de Indios | Spanish America separates into two separate groups. Both have their own hereditary ability and have special treatment as a kind of aristocracy. The Indian nobility, however, dies out and Europeans move in and take over. | 29 | |
| 5803232407 | Janissary | member of elite fighting force comprised of christian slaves in the Ottoman Empire | 30 | |
| 5803232408 | Thirty Years War | a series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. (1618-1648) | 31 | |
| 5803232409 | Trading Post Empire | built initially by the Portuguese, these were used to control the trade routes by forcing merchant vessels to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties there. 16th Century. | 32 | |
| 5803232410 | Wahhabi Islam | major Islamic movement led by the Muslim theologian Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792) that advocated an austere lifestyle and strict adherence to the sharia or Islamic law, extremists, against new science | 33 | |
| 5803232411 | Yasak | a tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia, most often in the form of fur | 34 |
