Ways of the World Textbook
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| 322926859 | Trading Post Empire | form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 0 | |
| 322926860 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences | 1 | |
| 322926861 | Spanish Phillipines | archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effect at evangelization; named Phillipine island in honor of king Phillip II of Spain | 2 | |
| 322926862 | Soft Gold | nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it. | 3 | |
| 322926863 | Silver Drain | term often used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the east, a prices exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets; eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China. | 4 | |
| 322926864 | Shogun | the supreme military commander of Japan | 5 | |
| 322926865 | Samurai | class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land | 6 | |
| 322926866 | Potosi | Located in Bolivia, one of the richest silver mining centers and most populous cities in colonial Spanish America. With this discovery, the trade of the entire world would be based on the movement of silver. Bullionism was not only possible but, in the short term, could be very prosperous. | 7 | |
| 322926867 | Piece of Eight | standard Spanish silver coin that became a medium exchange in North America, Europe, India, Russia, and West Africa as well as in the Spanish Empire, so called because it was worth 8 reales. | 8 | |
| 322926868 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | 9 | |
| 322926869 | Manila | capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. | 10 | |
| 322926870 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.. Spanish fleet in 1519 | 11 | |
| 322926871 | Little Ice Age | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable. (p. 462) | 12 | |
| 322926872 | 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. | 13 | |
| 322926873 | Hurons | Native Americans who formed allience with the French. Northeast part of US. FUR | 14 | |
| 322926874 | Daimyo | Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 15 | |
| 322926875 | Dahomey | African state among the Fon or Aja peoples; developed in the 17th century and centered at Abomey; became a major slave-trading state through use of Western firearms. | 16 | |
| 322926876 | Cartaz | a pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. | 17 | |
| 322926877 | British East Indian Companies | British, French Dutch companies that obtained government monopoly over trade in India acted as government in regions it claimed. right to make war and govern conquered peoples | 18 | |
| 322926878 | 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 or enslaved and then replaced with Dutch planters. (pron. BAHN-dah) | 19 | |
| 322926879 | African Diaspora | The dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade. | 20 |
