"World Economy" chapter of the "World Civilizations" AP World History textbook.
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| 332996709 | World Economy | this emerged after 1500, after silver had become a currency used globally. | 0 | |
| 332996710 | Cape of Good Hope | The land at the bottom of Africa, which the Portuguese sailed around, in order to find India, in the 15th century. The found the cape in 1488, but turned back. :P | 1 | |
| 332996711 | Christopher Columbus | an Italian navigator who sailed across the Atlantic in search of India, under the newly united Spanish monarchy, and found the Americas instead. | 2 | |
| 332996712 | Ferdinand Magellan | He sailed around the southern tip of South America, and to the Indonesian Islands, in 1521. = first trip around the world. | 3 | |
| 332996713 | Dutch East India Company | a company that was given government monopolies of trade in the regions designated, but was not very supervised by their own states. It ruled Taiwan for a period of time. | 4 | |
| 332996714 | British East India Company | they did the same as the Dutch E.I.C. in the 18th century. | 5 | |
| 332996715 | Lepanto | A sea battle, in 1571, in which the Spanish-directed navy beat the Ottoman Empire. (established Spanish Armada). | 6 | |
| 332996716 | Core Nations | nations in the world system that helped their economies to grow by establishing self-serving political policies. | 7 | |
| 332996717 | Mercantilism | urges that nations not buy import goods from outside its empire, but try to sell as many goods as possible. | 8 | |
| 332996718 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Native American blood. | 9 | |
| 332996719 | Vasco de Balboa | a Spanish conquerer who established what is now Panama, in the 1500s. | 10 | |
| 332996720 | Francisco Pizarro | (1478-1541) violent and treacherous adventurer who came to the Americas the first time in 1502, and settled on Hispaniola. He later took over the Incan Empire with 180 Spanish men, but was killed by an Incan in 1541. | 11 | |
| 332996721 | New France | area around Quebec that had about 55,000 settlers in a peasants society by 1755. | 12 | |
| 332996722 | Seven Years War | Britain attacked the new French colonies and claimed them for themselves. | 13 | |
| 332996723 | Treaty of Paris | terms under which the French lost the Seven Years War, in 1763. | 14 | |
| 332996724 | Cape Colony | colony planted by the Dutch, on the Cape of Good Hope, in 1652, in order to supply another coastal station, through which they could supplly ships heading for Asia. | 15 | |
| 332996725 | Boers | Dutch word for farmers | 16 | |
| 332996726 | Calcutta | The station gained by the British East India Company, through negotiation with local princes. It gave Britain access to the great wealth of the Ganges Valley. | 17 |
