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| 5710197556 | Columbian Exchange | the exchange of plants, animals. diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Christopher Columbus' voyages. |  | 0 |
| 5710222297 | Circumnavigate | to go completely around the Earth. |  | 1 |
| 5710232879 | Dutch United East India Company | a Dutch trading company that relied on private merchants to advance funds for launch. A charted company in the east Indies and the Netherlands. |  | 2 |
| 5710262251 | English East India Company | an early joint-stock company; were granted royal charter with the intention of favoring trade privileges in India. |  | 3 |
| 5710294114 | Ferdinand Magellan | a Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. |  | 4 |
| 5710319296 | James Cook | an English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific Islands (1728-1779). |  | 5 |
| 5710348367 | Middlemen | in trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original buyer and retail merchants. |  | 6 |
| 5710372559 | Seven Years War | also known as the French and Indian War, it was a war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. |  | 7 |
| 5710416529 | Vasco da Gama | a Portuguese explorer who from 1497-1498 led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India. |  | 8 |
| 5710438173 | 95 Theses | a document nailed to a church door in Wittenburg, Germany in 1517 and the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. It contained Martin Luther's accusations against the Roman Catholic Church. |  | 9 |
| 5710468450 | Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of capital. |  | 10 |
| 5710479948 | Charles V | the Holy Roman emperor who was a supporter of Catholicism and tried to crush the Protestant Reformation by the use of the Counter-Reformation. |  | 11 |
| 5710505194 | Council of Trent | a meeting of Roman Catholic leaders. called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant Reformers. |  | 12 |
| 5710523338 | Divine Right | belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God |  | 13 |
| 5710535384 | Excommunicate | cast out from the church. |  | 14 |
| 5710542953 | Heresy | any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs. |  | 15 |
| 5710556444 | Indulgences | selling of forgiveness by the Catholic church. |  | 16 |
| 5710567977 | Joint-Stock Companies | a business venture that developed during the 1600; investors buy shares of stock. |  | 17 |
| 5710587999 | King Henry VIII | the King of England who split the Catholic church and declared himself the head of the Anglican Church. |  | 18 |
| 5710611762 | Louis XIV | known as the Sun king, he was an absolute monarch that completely controlled France. |  | 19 |
| 5710627595 | Martin Luther | posted the 95 Theses in 1517, he started a religious reform in Germany which denied papal power and absolute rule. |  | 20 |
| 5710653893 | Protestant | a 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. |  | 21 |
| 5710678672 | Puritans | a religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. |  | 22 |
| 5710689529 | Reformation | a 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. | 23 | |
| 5710709718 | Versailles | a palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule. |  | 24 |
| 5710730358 | Cortes | a Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico. |  | 25 |
| 5710743775 | Hacienda | a large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas. |  | 26 |
| 5710755472 | Hispaniola | first island in the Caribbean settled by Spaniards. It was founded by Columbus. |  | 27 |
| 5710770151 | Indigenous | native to a certain area. |  | 28 |
| 5710782720 | Smallpox | the overall deadliest known disease in the history of the world. |  | 29 |
| 5710794504 | Treaty of Tordesillas | a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that the newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands east of the line would belong to Portugal. |  | 30 |
| 5710823555 | Ghana Empire | traded with caravans and camels across Sahara Desert and controlled gold. |  | 31 |
| 5710839645 | Mali Empire | from 1235-1400 this was a strong empire in Western Africa. With its trading cities in Timbuktu and Gao, it had many mosques and universities. The empire was in its prime when it was ruled by Mansa Musa. |  | 32 |
| 5710868478 | Songhay Empire | a state located in Western Africa. From the early 15th century to the late 16th century it was one of the world's largest Islamic empires in history. |  | 33 |
| 5710899961 | Syncretic Religions | religions that combine elements of two or more belief systems. |  | 34 |
| 5710913589 | Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |  | 35 |
| 5710926348 | African Diaspora | the separation of Africans from their homeland through centuries of forced removal to serve as slaves in the Americas and elsewhere. |  | 36 |
| 5710996445 | Lateen Sail | triangular sail that made it possible to sail against the wind; used in Indian Ocean trade. |  | 37 |
| 5711011461 | 30 Years War | from 1618-1648 this war resulted from a conflict between the Protestant Union and the Catholic League in the Holy Roman Empire; war led to severe depopulation. |  | 38 |
| 5711042904 | Anglican Church | church that King Henry VIII of England creates so that he can marry and divorce as he pleases. |  | 39 |
| 5711070227 | Locke | philosopher who held a different more positive view of human nature. He criticized absolute monarchy and favored the idea of self government. |  | 40 |
| 5711095980 | Peace of Westphalia | the treaty ending the Thirty Years War in Germany. |  | 41 |
| 5711115148 | Encomienda | a grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. |  | 42 |
| 5711129272 | Indentured Servant | colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange fro working without pay for a certain number of years. |  | 43 |
| 5711149376 | Pizarro | a Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas and what is now Peru. |  | 44 |
| 5711162101 | Taino | name of native people who lived in Hispaniola conquered by Columbus. |  | 45 |
| 5711177254 | Bullion | gold and silver in form of bars. |  | 46 |
| 5711187135 | Filial Piety | in Confucian thought, one of the virtues to e cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors. |  | 47 |
| 5711229012 | Mansa Musa | the Islamic ruler of the Mali Empire from 1312-1337. |  | 48 |
| 5711349108 | Bartolomeu Dias | a Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. |  | 49 |
