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| 134024906 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages | 0 | |
| 134024907 | creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas, the term is used to describe all non-native peoples | 1 | |
| 134024908 | mestizo | The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed Amerindian and European descent | 2 | |
| 134024909 | Bartolomé de Las Casas | Bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico, he devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor for them. He inadvertently caused African Slavery to increase significantly | 3 | |
| 134024910 | Tupac Amaru II | He was a member of Inca aristocracy who led a failed rebellion against Spanish authorities in Peru in 1780-1781 | 4 | |
| 134024911 | indentured servant | A migrant to American colonies who agreed to work for a set term ranging from four to seven years. They were cheaper than African slaves, but remained unpopular in the Caribbean | 5 | |
| 134024912 | Hausa | An agricultural and trading people of central Sudan in West Africa. Aside from their brief incorporation into the Songhai Empire, these city-states remained autonomous until the Sokoto Caliphate conquered them in the early nineteenth century | 6 | |
| 134024913 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa | 7 | |
| 134024914 | Dahomey | West African kingdom on the Gold Coast involved in the slave trade, it annexed the wealthy kingdom of Whydah in 1727. | 8 | |
| 134024915 | mercantilism | European government policies of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland country | 9 | |
| 134024916 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the government in Amsterdam to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa | 10 | |
| 134024917 | Fur | The European market for this commodity fueled French settlement in the Americas | 11 | |
| 134024918 | Mitsui | Family-based industrial and financial enterprises in Japan that branched into manufacturing, and transport under Tokugawa rule | 12 | |
| 134024919 | Tulip Period | Last years of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles, including exorbitant prices for Dutch flowers, and attitudes became popular in Istanbul | 13 | |
| 134024920 | Akbar I | The third and most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus | 14 | |
| 134024921 | Shah Abbas I | The fifth and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran. He moved the royal capital to Isfahan in 1598 | 15 | |
| 134024922 | Janissaries | Infantry, originally of slave origin, they constituted the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until 1826 | 16 | |
| 134024923 | Safavid Empire | Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state | 17 | |
| 134024924 | Aurangzeb | This Mughal emperor, great-grandson of Akbar, reinstituted restrictions on Hindus that Akbar had started | 18 | |
| 134024925 | Kangxi | Qing emperor. He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire | 19 | |
| 134024926 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | First shogun of Japan following the demise of Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 20 | |
| 134024927 | Daimyo | These were Japanese warlords and great landowners, whose armed samurai gave them control of the Japanese islands from the eighth to the later nineteenth century. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate they were subordinated to the imperial government | 21 | |
| 134024928 | Edo (Tokyo) | The Tokugawa shoguns moved the capital of Japan here in 1603 | 22 | |
| 134024929 | Macao | This city on the Southern coast of China was the only place where the Portuguese were allowed to trade with China after 1557 | 23 | |
| 134024930 | Peter the Great | Russian tsar who introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moved the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg | 24 | |
| 134024931 | Boyars | This is the name for the nobility of Russia | 25 | |
| 134024932 | Matteo Ricci | This Jesuit missionary became expert in Chinese and was an accomplished scholar of the Confucian classics. He adapted Catholicism to Chinese cultural traditions | 26 | |
| 134024933 | Marquis of Pombal | The most aggressive period of expansion and reform in Brazil was between 1750 and 1777, when Brazil was led by this person | 27 | |
| 134024934 | Urals | This is the name the feature that divided Asian Russia from European Russia | 28 |
