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| 6078137758 | Vasco De Gama | Portuguese, sailed beneath the southern tip of Africa into the Indian Ocean | 0 | |
| 6078137759 | Magellan | Portuguese, tried to sail around the World | 1 | |
| 6078137760 | English East India Comapny | 1600, started by individual citizens who would travel to India and resell the goods in England for higher prices | 2 | |
| 6078137761 | Aztec Empire | Empire in central Mexico, capital was Tenochtitlan, military based empire | 3 | |
| 6078137762 | Montezuma | Ninth Aztec emperor, famous for his confrontation with Hernes Cortes | 4 | |
| 6078137763 | Cavavels | A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship created by the Portuguese | 5 | |
| 6078137764 | English East India Company | Stock company, travelled to India and would resell Indian goods in England for high prices, the foundation of coperations | 6 | |
| 6078137765 | Colombian Exchange | Trade of livestock, vegetables, coffee, tobacco, disease, and slaves from the Old World to the New World, caused a dramatic demographic shift in the Americas | 7 | |
| 6078137766 | Jamestown | First British colony in North America, named after King James I of ENgland | 8 | |
| 6078137767 | Little Ice Age | Period between 1300-1870 in which Europe and North America were subjected to colder winds | 9 | |
| 6078137768 | Chattel Slavery | The owning of human beings as property | 10 | |
| 6078137769 | Louis XIV | Revoked the Edict of Nantes, ruled for 72 years, known as the "sun king" | 11 | |
| 6078137770 | Mercantilism | A system in which a country accumulates wealth through trade | 12 | |
| 6078137771 | Sikhism | A religion formed in the late 15th century in India | 13 | |
| 6078137772 | Peninsulars | A European (Spanish or Portuguese) living in the Americas, small % of the population | 14 | |
| 6078137773 | Creoles | A European born in the Americas | 15 | |
| 6078137774 | Mestizos | A person with both European and Native descent | 16 | |
| 6078137775 | Treaty of Tordesillas | A compromise between the Spanish and the Portuguese which gave both of them land in the Americas | 17 | |
| 6078137776 | Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador, killed Inca Empire and brought the lands under Spanish control | 18 | |
| 6078137777 | Erasmus | Catholic priest, learned to speak Greek so he could translate the original bible | 19 | |
| 6078137778 | Humanism | The ideology that you can still enjoy the world around you while reaching salvation, a mixture of Catholicism and Secularism | 20 | |
| 6078137779 | Council of Trent | A meeting to make reforms to the Catholic church in response to the Protestant reformation | 21 | |
| 6078137780 | Diet of Worms | Meeting between Pope Leo X, Charles V, and Martin Luther, Pope Leo tries to make Luther repent his sins, Luther leaves as a heratic | 22 | |
| 6078137781 | John Calvin | Calvinism, pre-destination: god's plan | 23 | |
| 6078137782 | Society of Jesus (Jesuits) | A society devoted to Catholic education and missionary work | 24 | |
| 6078137783 | Thirty Years War | A series of wars in the Holy Roman Empire, ended in 1648 with the treaty of Westphalia | 25 | |
| 6078137784 | Treaty of Westphalia | Ended the Thirty Years War, allowed German princes to choose their faith, Europe is permanently religiously divided | 26 | |
| 6078137785 | Henry VIII | Tudor family, created the Church of England, had six wives | 27 | |
| 6078137786 | Elizabeth I | Stabilized England by creating the Anglican Church | 28 | |
| 6078137787 | Absolute Monarchy | A form of government in which the king has absolute authority over the state | 29 | |
| 6078137788 | Charles I | Didn't work with parliament, raised tax to be apart of the Thirty Years War, arrested the Parliament which led to the English Civil War, Executed for treason | 30 | |
| 6078137789 | Oliver Cromwell | New leader of the English republic/commonwealth, had strict puritan laws (anti-anglican, extreme protestant) | 31 | |
| 6078137790 | Glorious Revolution | The overthrow of James II by William and Mary of Orange, "bloodless revolution" | 32 | |
| 6078137791 | Cardinal Richelieu | Regent for Louis XIII (9 year old king), Clergy of French Catholic Church | 33 | |
| 6078137792 | Louis XIV | 72 years long rule, revoked the "edict of nantes" (edict that let huguenots worship freely) | 34 | |
| 6078137793 | Adam Smith | Scottish philosopher and economist, wrote the "wealth of nations" | 35 | |
| 6078137794 | Hacienda | (spanish) a large estate or plantation with a dwelling house | 36 | |
| 6078137795 | Indentured Servant | Men or woman who signed a contract in by which they agreed to work a certain number of years in exchange for food, transportation, and housing (North America) | 37 | |
| 6078137796 | Songhai Empire | Western African empire in the 15th and 16th century | 38 | |
| 6078137797 | King Alfonso I | First African king to convert to Catholicism | 39 | |
| 6078137798 | Triangular Slave Trade | The exchange of crops, livestock, luxury goods, and slaves between Europe, Africa, and the New World | 40 | |
| 6078137799 | Middle Passage | The transfer of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean, horrible conditions, 25% died on voyage | 41 | |
| 6078137800 | African Diaspora | Spread of Africans, creation of African-American culture | 42 | |
| 6078137801 | Romanov Dynasty | The second dynasty to rule over Russia, ruled until the 20th century | 43 | |
| 6078137802 | Peter the Great | Westernized Russia, creates a naval military first, creates city of St. Petersburg, created social laws | 44 | |
| 6078137803 | Catherine the Great | Most renowned and and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia | 45 | |
| 6078137804 | Zheng He | Chinese explorer, traveled to regions such as Asia and Africa | 46 | |
| 6078137805 | Ming Dynasty | Overthrew the Yuan Dynasty (Mongols), focused on the restoration of Chinese culture (meritocracy, mandate of heaven, confucianism), banned foreigners | 47 | |
| 6078137806 | Qing Dynasty | Run by Manchurians, last Chinese dynasty | 48 | |
| 6078137807 | Tokugawa Ieyusa | Created a centralized government in Japan, rejected relationships with westerners (except for the Dutch) | 49 | |
| 6078137808 | Ottoman Empire | Longest Islamic empire, expands with the fall of the Byzantine empire | 50 | |
| 6078137809 | Sultan Mehmed II | "the conqueror", Islamic Sultan who sieged Constantinople and expanded the Ottoman empire | 51 | |
| 6078137810 | Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent | Expands the Ottoman empire into N. Africa and E. Africa, makes education reforms, gives Jews/Christians protection under the law | 52 | |
| 6078137811 | Janissaries | Elite Islamic military | 53 | |
| 6078137812 | Safavid Empire | Islamic empire based in Persia | 54 | |
| 6078137813 | Shah Ismail | Unites the people under religion, thought to be the 12th Imam who will spread true Islam | 55 | |
| 6078137814 | Shah Abbas | Considered the strongest ruler of the Safavid Dynasty | 56 | |
| 6078137815 | Mughal Empire | Islamic state in India ran by turkish people, overthrows the Sulnate of Dehli | 57 | |
| 6078137816 | Akbar | A sultanate of the Mughal Empire, Expands into S. India, unifies the state, religiously tolerant, works w/ ottomans | 58 | |
| 6078137817 | Aurangzeb | A sultanate of the Mughal Empire, burns down Hindu temples, triples taxes on Hindus | 59 | |
| 6078137818 | Taj Mahel | An ivory-white marble mausoleum, commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal | 60 | |
| 6078137819 | Martin Luther | German monk, upsetted by activities taking place in the Roman Catholic Church | 61 | |
| 6078137820 | Diet of Worms | A meeting between Pope Leo X, Charles V, and Martin Luther to discuss Luther's acts of heresy | 62 | |
| 6078137821 | Lutheranism | Authority straight from the Bible, free will- all of us are sinners, spoke in the vernacular | 63 | |
| 6078137822 | Calvanism | John Calvin, pre-destination | 64 | |
| 6078137823 | The Renaissance | 14th and 15th century Europe, rebirth of liberal arts, starts in Italy | 65 | |
| 6078137824 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Artist, Inventor, Botanist, Invented sanitation systems and flying machines, painted the Mona Lisa, wrote backwards | 66 | |
| 6078137825 | Michelangelo | Da Vinci's rival, statue of David, Sistine chapel | 67 | |
| 6078137826 | Edict of Nantes | Allowed French Protestants to worship freely | 68 | |
| 6078137827 | Huguenots | French Protestants | 69 | |
| 6078137828 | Galileo | Uses telescope to prove heliocentrism, work was banned by the Catholic church and he was put on house arrest | 70 | |
| 6078137829 | Akbar | The most famous emperor of India's Mughal Empire (r. 1556-1605); his policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion. | 71 | |
| 6078137830 | Columbian Exchange | The massive transatlantic interaction and exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia that began in the period of European exploration and colonization. | 72 | |
| 6078137831 | Conquistadores | Spanish conquerors of the Native American lands, most notably the Aztec and Inca empires. | 73 | |
| 6078137832 | Constantinople, 1453 | The capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror," an event that marked the end of Christian Byzantium. | 74 | |
| 6078137833 | Creoles | Spaniards born in the Americas. | 75 | |
| 6078137834 | Devshirme | The tribute of boy children that the Ottoman Turks levied from their Christian subjects in the Balkans; the Ottomans raised the boys for service in the civil administration or in the elite Janissary infantry corps. | 76 | |
| 6078137835 | The Great Dying | Term used to describe the devastating demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas. | 77 | |
| 6078137836 | Jizya | Special tax levied on non-Muslims in Islamic states; the Mughal Empire was notable for abolishing it for a time. | 78 | |
| 6078137837 | Mercantilism | An economic theory that argues that governments best serve their states' economic interests by encouraging exports and accumulating bullion. | 79 | |
| 6078137838 | Mestizo | Literally, "mixed"; a term used to describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas. | 80 | |
| 6078137839 | Mughal Empire | One of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by Muslim Turks who invaded India in 1526; their rule was noted for efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims. | 81 | |
| 6078137840 | Mulatto | Term commonly used for people of mixed African and European blood. | 82 | |
| 6078137841 | Ottoman Empire | Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans, the Near East, and much of North Africa. | 83 | |
| 6078137842 | Peninsulare | In the Spanish colonies of Latin America, the term used to refer to people who had been born in Spain; they claimed superiority over Spaniards born in the Americas. | 84 | |
| 6078137843 | Plantation complex | Agricultural system based on African slavery that was used in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern colonies of North America. | 85 | |
| 6078137844 | Qing Dynasty | Ruling dynasty of China from 1644 to 1912; these rulers were originally from Manchuria, which had conquered China. | 86 | |
| 6078137845 | Settler colonies | Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region; particularly noteworthy in the case of the British colonies in North America. | 87 | |
| 6078137846 | Siberia | Russia's great frontier region, a vast territory of what is now central and eastern Russia, most of it unsuited to agriculture but rich in mineral resources and fur-bearing animals. | 88 | |
| 6078137847 | African diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. | 89 | |
| 6078137848 | British/Dutch East India companies | Private trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples. | 90 | |
| 6078137849 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. | 91 | |
| 6078137850 | Indian Ocean Commercial Network | The massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500. | 92 | |
| 6078137851 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521). | 93 | |
| 6078137852 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 94 | |
| 6078137853 | Samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. | 95 | |
| 6078137854 | Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander. | 96 | |
| 6078137855 | Spanish Phillipines | An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization | 97 | |
| 6078137856 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments. | 98 | |
| 6078137857 | Trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 99 | |
| 6078137858 | Catholic Counter-Reformation | An internal reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century; thanks especially to the work of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic leaders clarified doctrine, corrected abuses and corruption, and put a new emphasis on education and accountability. | 100 | |
| 6078137859 | Copernicus | Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543) who was the first to argue for the existence of a heliocentric cosmos. | 101 | |
| 6078137860 | Council of Trent | The main instrument of the Catholic Counter-Reformation (1545-1563), at which the Catholic Church clarified doctrine and corrected abuses. | 102 | |
| 6078137861 | Charles Darwin | Highly influential English biologist (1809-1882) whose theory of natural selection continues to be seen by many as a threat to revealed religious truth. | 103 | |
| 6078137862 | European Enlightenment | European intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applied the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society. | 104 | |
| 6078137863 | Galileo | Italian astronomer (1564-1642) who further developed the ideas of Copernicus and whose work was eventually suppressed by the Catholic Church. | 105 | |
| 6078137864 | Huguenots | The Protestant minority in France. | 106 | |
| 6078137865 | Jesuits in China | Series of Jesuit missionaries in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, inspired by the work of Matteo Ricci, made extraordinary efforts to understand and become a part of Chinese culture in their efforts to convert the Chinese elite, although with limited success | 107 | |
| 6078137866 | Martin Luther | German priest and theologian (1483-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation movement in Europe. | 108 | |
| 6078137867 | Isaac Newton | English natural scientist (1643-1727) whose formulation of the laws of motion and mechanics is regarded as the culmination of the Scientific Revolution. | 109 | |
| 6078137868 | Ninety-Five Theses | List of debating points about the abuses of the Church, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg in 1517; the Church's strong reaction eventually drove Luther to separate from Catholic Christianity. | 110 | |
| 6078137869 | Protestant Reformation | Massive schism within Christianity that had its formal beginning in 1517 with the German priest Martin Luther; while the leaders of the movement claimed that they sought to "reform" a Church that had fallen from biblical practice, in reality the movement was radically innovative in its challenge to Church authority and its endorsement of salvation "by faith alone." | 111 | |
| 6078137870 | Scientific Revolution | Great European intellectual and cultural transformation that was based on the principles of the scientific method. | 112 | |
| 6078137871 | Sikhism | Religious tradition of northern India founded by Guru Nanak ca. 1500; combines elements of Hinduism and Islam and proclaims the brotherhood of all humans and the equality of men and women. | 113 | |
| 6078137872 | Thirty Year's War | Highly destructive war (1618-1648) that eventually included most of Europe; fought for the most part between Protestants and Catholics, the conflict ended with the Peace of Westphalia (1648). | 114 |
