Here are the ch 15 words! They are taken directly from strayer.
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| 299950689 | African Diaspora | Name given to the spread of African Peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. | 0 | |
| 299950690 | Banda Islands | Infamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly the entire population of these nutmeg-producing islands was killed, enslaved, ot left to starve and then replaced with Dutch planters. | 1 | |
| 299950691 | Benin | West African Kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement the slave trade. | 2 | |
| 299950692 | British / Dutch East India Companies | Private trading companies charted by 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. | 3 | |
| 299950693 | Cartaz | A trade that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. | 4 | |
| 299950694 | Dahomey | West African Kingdom that became strong though its rulers exploitation of the slave trade. | 5 | |
| 299950695 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with Virtual independence thanks to their bands of Samurai warriors. | 6 | |
| 299950696 | Hurons | Native American people of the northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade. | 7 | |
| 299950697 | Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era. | 8 | |
| 299950698 | Magellan, Ferdinand | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) Fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521) | 9 | |
| 299950699 | Manila | Capitol of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more that 40,000 by 1600. | 10 | |
| 299950700 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by the African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 11 | |
| 299950701 | Piece of Eight | Standard Spanish silver coin that became a medium of exchange on north America, Europe, India, and West Africa as well as in the Spanish Empire; so called because it was worth 8 reales. | 12 | |
| 299950702 | Potosi | City that developed high in the Andes (present-day Bolivia) at the site of the worlds largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570's. | 13 | |
| 299950703 | Samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan | 14 | |
| 299950704 | Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander. | 15 | |
| 299950705 | "Silver Drain" | Term often used, along with 'specie drain', to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay fro the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated buy the fact that Europe had few goods to trade that were desirable in Eastern Markets; eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China. | 16 | |
| 299950706 | "Soft Gold" | Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite statues; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it. | 17 | |
| 299950707 | Spanish Philippines | An Archipelago of the Pacific Islands colonized by Spain on a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization; the Spanish named them the Philippine Islands in honor of King Philip II of Spain. | 18 | |
| 299950708 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Military Rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early 17th century and established a "closed door" policy toward European Encroachments. | 19 | |
| 299950709 | Trading Post Empire | Form of Imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 20 |
