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| 6215229845 | Vasco De Gama | Portuguese explorer, sailed beneath the southern tip of Africa into the Indian Ocean | 0 | |
| 6215229846 | Magellan | Portuguese explorer, tried to sail around the World | 1 | |
| 6215229848 | Aztec Empire | Empire in central Mexico, capital was Tenochtitlan, military based empire | 2 | |
| 6215229849 | Montezuma | Ninth Aztec emperor, famous for his confrontation with Hernan Cortes | 3 | |
| 6215229850 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship created by the Portuguese | 4 | |
| 6215229851 | English East India Company | Stock company, travelled to India and would resell Indian goods in England for high prices, the foundation of coperations | 5 | |
| 6215229852 | Columbian 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 | 6 | |
| 6215229853 | Jamestown | First British colony in North America, named after King James I of England | 7 | |
| 6215229854 | Little Ice Age | Period between 1300-1870 in which Europe and North America were subjected to colder winds | 8 | |
| 6215229855 | Chattel Slavery | The owning of human beings as property | 9 | |
| 6215229856 | Louis XIV | Revoked the Edict of Nantes, ruled for 72 years, known as the "sun king" | 10 | |
| 6215229857 | Mercantilism | A system in which a country accumulates wealth through trade | 11 | |
| 6215229858 | Sikhism | A religion formed in the late 15th century in India | 12 | |
| 6215229859 | Peninsulares | A European (Spanish or Portuguese) living in the Americas, small % of the population | 13 | |
| 6215229861 | Mestizos | A person with both European and Native descent | 14 | |
| 6215229863 | Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador, destroyed Inca Empire and brought the lands under Spanish control | 15 | |
| 6215229869 | Society of Jesus (Jesuits) | A society devoted to Catholic education and missionary work | 16 | |
| 6215229872 | Henry VIII | Tudor family, created the Church of England, had six wives | 17 | |
| 6215229874 | Absolute Monarchy | A form of government in which the king has absolute authority over the state | 18 | |
| 6215229882 | 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) | 19 | |
| 6215229885 | Triangular Slave Trade | The exchange of crops, livestock, luxury goods, and slaves between Europe, Africa, and the New World | 20 | |
| 6215229886 | Middle Passage | The transfer of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean, horrible conditions, 25% died on voyage | 21 | |
| 6215229887 | African Diaspora | Spread of Africans, creation of African-American culture | 22 | |
| 6215229889 | Peter the Great | Westernized Russia, creates a naval military first, creates city of St. Petersburg, created social laws | 23 | |
| 6215229890 | Catherine the Great | Most renowned and and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia | 24 | |
| 6215229891 | Zheng He | Muslim, Chinese explorer, traveled to regions such as Asia and Africa | 25 | |
| 6215229892 | Ming Dynasty | Overthrew the Yuan Dynasty (Mongols), focused on the restoration of Chinese culture (meritocracy, mandate of heaven, confucianism), banned foreigners | 26 | |
| 6215229893 | Qing Dynasty | Run by Manchurians, last Chinese dynasty | 27 | |
| 6215229894 | Tokugawa Ieyusa | Created a centralized government in Japan, rejected relationships with westerners (except for the Dutch) | 28 | |
| 6215229895 | Ottoman Empire | Longest Islamic empire, expands with the fall of the Byzantine empire | 29 | |
| 6215229897 | Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent | Expands the Ottoman empire into N. Africa and E. Africa, makes education reforms, gives Jews/Christians protection under the law | 30 | |
| 6215229898 | Janissaries | Elite Islamic military | 31 | |
| 6215229899 | Safavid Empire | Islamic empire based in Persia | 32 | |
| 6215229900 | Shah Ismail | Unites the people under religion, thought to be the 12th Imam who will spread true Islam | 33 | |
| 6215229902 | Mughal Empire | Islamic state in India ran by Turkish people, overthrows the Sultanate of Delhi | 34 | |
| 6215229903 | Akbar | A sultan of the Mughal Empire, Expands into S. India, unifies the state, religiously tolerant, works w/ ottomans | 35 | |
| 6215229905 | Taj Mahal | An ivory-white marble mausoleum, commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal | 36 | |
| 6215229918 | Conquistadores | Spanish conquerors of the Native American lands, most notably the Aztec and Inca empires. | 37 | |
| 6215229919 | 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. | 38 | |
| 6215229920 | Creoles | Spaniards born in the Americas. | 39 | |
| 6215229921 | 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. | 40 | |
| 6215229923 | Jitza (Jizyah) | Special tax levied on non-Muslims in Islamic states; the Mughal Empire was notable for abolishing it for a time. | 41 | |
| 6215229926 | 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. | 42 | |
| 6215229927 | Mulatto | Term commonly used for people of mixed African and European blood. | 43 | |
| 6215229929 | 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. | 44 | |
| 6215229930 | Plantation complex | Agricultural system based on African slavery that was used in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern colonies of North America. | 45 | |
| 6215229932 | 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. | 46 | |
| 6215229936 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. | 47 | |
| 6215229937 | 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. | 48 | |
| 6215229939 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 49 | |
| 6215229940 | Samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. | 50 | |
| 6215229941 | Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander. | 51 | |
| 6215229943 | 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. | 52 | |
| 6215229952 | 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 | 53 |
