Unit 4 Part 2
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| 8649263751 | Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | 0 | |
| 8649263752 | the great dying | The massive epidemic caused by Old World diseases (zoonoses) after Columbian Exchange. It killed around 90% of the Native American (it also happened in parts of Asia and the Polynesian Islands). | 1 | |
| 8649263753 | Dona Marina | Aztec woman who became an interpreter for Hernando Cortes during his conquest of the Aztec empire | 2 | |
| 8649263754 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. |  | 3 |
| 8649263755 | peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class. | 4 | |
| 8649263756 | mestizo | A new racial concept that develops in Latin America following the intermixing that occurred between European colonists and the native American population. Means "mixed" | 5 | |
| 8649263757 | plantation | A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country. | 6 | |
| 8649263758 | mulattoes | People of African and European descent | 7 | |
| 8649263759 | settler colonies | Colonies, such as those in South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii, where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples. | 8 | |
| 8649263760 | Siberia | The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia. |  | 9 |
| 8649263761 | yasak | Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia, most often in the form of furs. | 10 | |
| 8649263762 | Qing dynasty | (1644-1911 CE), the last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries; was ruled by the Manchu people: began to isolate themselves from Western culture, | 11 | |
| 8649263763 | Mughal Empire | an Islamic imperial power that ruled a large portion of Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, invaded and ruled most of Hindustan (South Asia) by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century. |  | 12 |
| 8649263764 | Akbar | The most famous Muslim ruler of India during the period of Mughal rule. Famous for his religious tolerance, his investment in rich cultural feats, and the creation of a centralized governmental administration, which was not typical of ancient and post-classical India. | 13 | |
| 8649263765 | Aurangzeb | The other son of Shah Jahan who won the power struggle and put his brother to death and his father in prison. He tried to rid India of social evils but ironically returned the intolerance of Hindus due to his strong Muslim faith | 14 | |
| 8649263766 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 15 | |
| 8649263767 | devshirme | in the Ottoman Empire, a system (literally, "Collection") of training talented children to be administrators or members of the sultan's harem; originally meritocratic, by the 17th century it had degenerated into a hereditary caste. | 16 | |
| 8649263768 | Constantinople | Today known as Istanbul, former capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell in 1453 to the Turks | 17 | |
| 8651689882 | Encomienda System | Social and economic system in Spanish America in which Spanish land lords could demand work from Native Americans on their land, for no cost to the Spanish. Basically a form of slave labor. | 18 | |
| 8651821697 | Syphilis | Disease spread from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia, mostly due to sailors who would travel to the Americas and return home to families | 19 | |
| 8651833888 | Catherine the Great | Famous Russian leader that expanded Russia and gained access to warm water ports | 20 | |
| 8651861534 | Crops of the Americas | Corn, Tobacco, Potatoes, Squash, Beans | 21 | |
| 8651871579 | Crops of the "Old World" | Wheat, Barley, Rice, Sugarcane | 22 | |
| 8661330199 | Smallpox | Major disease brought to the Americas in which native populations had little immunities for, creating the "Great Dying" | 23 | |
| 8663697482 | Janissaries | Elite troops in the Ottoman Empire that were formed from the devshirme process; christian boys would be converted and turned into loyal soldiers for the emperor | 24 |
