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| 5816446754 | Durbar | elaborate display of political power and wealth in British Indian the nineteenth century, ostensibly in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire | 0 | |
| 5816446755 | Dona Marina | originally called Malintzin: born about 1500 in central Mexica with Nahuatl as her native language; became fluent in Maya during her travels....helped Hernan Cortes communicate with the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico; in 1522, she gave birth to a son fathered by Cortes and in 1526, she had a daughter to a Spanish captain that she married and learned Spanish; she died in 1527 during labor | 1 | |
| 5816446756 | Hernan Cortes | (1485-1547) Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico | 2 | |
| 5816446757 | Atahualpa (page 621) | last emperor of the Inca Empire, spent majority of life in captivity....the Inca empire raised large ransom for his return, after it was paid he was executed | 3 | |
| 5816446758 | Huascar (page 621) | After Huayna Capac died; there was a civil war between his two sons. He was older brother and was heir to the throne// fought brother in civil war for leader of Inca, killed shortly before Pizarro's arrival | 4 | |
| 5816446759 | Great Dying (page 622) | explorers and conquistadors from New World brought diseases with them that the Native Americans had no immunity to. 60-80 million Native Americans died from these diseases.........caused social breakdown of Native American societies | 5 | |
| 5816446760 | Small Pox (page 622) | infectious disease that began in Europe and spread to the Americas through conquest AKA: "Cotton Pox", "Cow Pox", "Milk Pox", "White Pox", "Cuban Itch" | 6 | |
| 5816446761 | American stimulants | 7 | ||
| 5816446762 | Colombian Exchange (page 624) | exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages | 8 | |
| 5816446763 | Mercantilism (page 626) | economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 9 | |
| 5816446764 | Encomienda (page 627) | institution where recruitment of labor came through; gave Spanish settlers (encomenderos) right to work in their mines/fields but also the responsibility of looking after worker's health and welfare and encourage conversion to Christianity | 10 | |
| 5816446765 | Repartimiento (page 627) | colonial forced labor system imposed upon indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines | 11 | |
| 5816446766 | Hacienda (page 627) | Rural estates in Spanish colonies in New World; produced agricultural products for consumers in America=basis of wealth and power for local aristocracy | 12 | |
| 5816446767 | Peons | employed native workers and owned large estates. . .these people worked the estates enjoyed little control over their lives | 13 | |
| 5816446768 | Peninsulares | People who are born in Spain; mercantile groups who had less prestigious occupations | 14 | |
| 5816446769 | Creoles | Spaniards that owned land and were born in the Americas; resented the pretensions to superiority of Peninsulares | 15 | |
| 5816446770 | Mestizo | It was a mixed-race population, mix of Spanish men and Native American women | 16 | |
| 5816446771 | Castes | separate groups that mixed race people were divided into | 17 | |
| 5816446772 | Indians | Indigenous people that were at the bottom of Mexican and Peruvian colonial societies; traumatized by "the great dying" and were subject to abuse and exploitation as primary labor source for the mines and estates of the Spanish Empire and were required to render tribute payments to their Spanish overlords | 18 | |
| 5816446773 | Mulattoes | People of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent | 19 | |
| 5816446774 | Siberia | vast territory that is now central and eastern Russia. It is unsuited for agriculture but rich in minerals and fur-bearing animals | 20 | |
| 5816446775 | "Soft Gold" | . . . of furbearing animals (pelts were in great demand on the world market) drew the Russians across Siberia | 21 | |
| 5816446776 | Yasak | "tribute," paid in cash or in kind. In Siberia, this meant enormous quantities of furs, especially the extremely valuable sable, which Siberian peoples were compelled to produce. | 22 | |
| 5816446777 | Cossacks | group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and in Russia | 23 | |
| 5816446778 | Russified | Made Russian in character | 24 | |
| 5816446779 | "Window on the West" | St. Petersburg, Russia | 25 | |
| 5816446780 | Qing | Ruling dynasty of China from 1644-1912. The Qing rulers were from Manchuria who had conquered China | 26 | |
| 5816446781 | Mughal Empire | One of the most successful empires of India. Founded by Muslim Turks that were noted for trying to connect Hindus and Muslims | 27 | |
| 5816446782 | Akbar | The most famous Mughal emperor. Noted for being religiously tolerant | 28 | |
| 5816446783 | Sati | the former Hindu practice of a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre | 29 | |
| 5816446784 | Nur Jahan | the twentieth but most beloved, and therefore most important consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir | 30 | |
| 5816446785 | House of Worship | The Bahá'í House of Worship for North America. A Symbol of the Oneness of Humanity | 31 | |
| 5816446786 | Aurangzeb | Abu'l Muzaffar Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir, commonly known as Aurangzeb, was the sixth, and widely considered the last effective Mughal Emperor | 32 | |
| 5816446787 | Ottoman Empire | Major Islamic state that centered on Anatolia. Took over the Balkans, the Near East, and much of North Africa | 33 | |
| 5816446788 | Sultan | A Muslim sovereign | 34 | |
| 5816446789 | 1453 | Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453 | 35 | |
| 5816446790 | Devshirme | tribute of boys levied by the Ottoman Empire from the Christians in the Balkans. Boys were raised in the infantry or civil administration | 36 | |
| 5816446791 | Terror of the Turk | Europeans' fear of an Islamic takeover of all Europe | 37 | |
| 5816446792 | Siege of Vienna | Battle of Khe Sanh was conducted in Republic of Vietnam, between 21 January and 9 July 1968 during the Vietnam War | 38 |
