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3639656169ZungharsWestern Mongol group that provoked Qing expansion into Central Asia.0
3639656170YasakTribute that Russian rulers demanded from people of Siberia.1
3639656171SiberiaRussia's great frontier region, rich in mineral resources and fur-bearing animals.2
3639656172Settler coloniesColonies in which people settled in large numbers.3
3639656173Qing DynastyRuling dynasty of China.4
3639656174Plantation complexAgricultural system based on African slavery that was used in Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.5
3639656175PeninsularesPeople who were born in Spain6
3639656176Ottoman EmpireMajor Islamic state centered on Anatolia.7
3639656177MulattoesPeople of mixed African and European blood.8
3639656178Mughal EmpireEmpire of India founded by Muslim Turks; noted for efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims.9
3639656179MestizoThe mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas.10
3639656180MercantilismTheory that governments best serve their states' economic interests by encouraging exports and accumulating bullion.11
3639656181JizyaSpecial tax levied on non-Muslims in Islamic states.12
3639656182"great dying", theThe devastating demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas.13
3639656183Fixed windsThe prevailing winds of the Atlantic; made European exploration and colonization of the Americas possible.14
3639656184DevshirmeThe tribute of boys that the Ottoman Turks levied from their Christian subjects in the Balkans.15
3639656185CreolesSpaniards born in the Americas16
3639656186Constantinople, 1453Constantinople fell to the army of the Ottoman invaders in 1453.17
3639656187ConquistadoresSpanish conquerors of the Native American lands, most notably the Aztec and Inca empires.18
3639656188Columbian exchangeThe massive transatlantic interaction and exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.19
3639656189AurangzebMughal emperor who reversed his predecessors' policies of religious tolerance and attempted to impose Islamic supremacy.20
3639656190AkbarFamous emperor of India's Mughal Empire.21

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