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| 320619119 | Caravans | groups of people traveling together for safety over long distances, groups of traveling merchants | 0 | |
| 320619120 | The silver islands | Term used by European merchants in the sixteenth century to refer to Japan, because of its substantial trade in silver with China. | 1 | |
| 320619121 | Grand Canal | an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China, The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire. (p. 277) | 2 | |
| 320619122 | caravansarais | Inns constructed along major trade routes that accommodated large numbers of traders, their animals, and their wares. | 3 | |
| 320619123 | Conversos | Converted Jews in Spain. They were one of the targets of the Inquisition, in 1492, the Jews were exiled and their properties were seized. | 4 | |
| 320619124 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. (p. 427) | 5 | |
| 320619125 | Carrack | a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | 6 | |
| 320619126 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 7 | |
| 320619127 | Atlantic system | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497) | 8 | |
| 320619128 | Encomiendas | rights to demand taxes or labor from Native Americans, Grants of Indian laborers made to Spanish conquerors and settlers in Mesoamerica and South America; basis for earliest forms of coerced labor in Spanish colonies. | 9 | |
| 320619129 | Encomenderos | Spanish settlers who were in charge of the natives working on the encomiendas | 10 | |
| 320619130 | Conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas, an adventurer | 11 | |
| 320619131 | Tlaxcalans | A Mesoamerican society of the 1400s; these people were enemies of the powerful Aztec empire, Allie's with the Spanish | 12 | |
| 320619132 | Tarascans | A mesoamerican people who were located to the west of the Aztecs, rivals to and subjects of Aztecs, 15th cent | 13 | |
| 320619133 | Quetzalcoatl | an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent | 14 | |
| 320619134 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory | 15 | |
| 320619135 | Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches | 16 | |
| 320619136 | Protestantism | the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation, started by Martin Luthur | 17 | |
| 320619137 | Catholicism | the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church | 18 | |
| 320619138 | Counter-Reformation | the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected), catholic church's attempt to stop the protestant movement and to Strengthen the Catholic Church | 19 | |
| 320619139 | Huguenot | French Protestants who endured severe persecution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 20 | |
| 320619140 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Set the Line of Demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas. | 21 | |
| 320619141 | Jesuit | having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism, Religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola to counter the inroads of the Protestant Reformation; the Jesuits were active in politics, education, and missionary work. | 22 |
