5677827209 | Entrepots | Trading st as tons at the borders between communities which made exchange possible among many different partners | 0 | |
5677827210 | Colonies | Regions under the political control of another country | 1 | |
5677827211 | Caravel | Sailing vessel suited for nosing in and out of estuaries and navigating waters with unpredictable currents and winds | 2 | |
5677827212 | New World | Term applied to the Americas that reflected the Europeans' view that anything previously unknown to them was "new" | 3 | |
5677827213 | Conquistadors | Spanish military leaders who led the conquest of the New World in the 16th century | 4 | |
5677827214 | Mestizos | Mixed-blood of offspring of Spanish settlers and Native Indians | 5 | |
5677827215 | Encomiendas | Grants from European Spanish governors to control the labor Services of colonized people | 6 | |
5677827216 | Columbian Exchange | Movements between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas of previously unknown plants, animals, people, diseases, and products | 7 | |
5677827217 | Smallpox | Disease that spread into the Americas by European settlers | 8 | |
5677827218 | Plantation | An estate which crops are cultivated by resident labor | 9 | |
5677827219 | Atlantic System | New system of trade and expansion, that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas | 10 | |
5677827220 | Holy Roman Empire | Enormous realm that encompassed much of Europe and aspired to be the Christian successor state to the Roman Empire | 11 | |
5677827221 | Protestant Reformation | Religious movement by Martin Luther who criticized the Catholic Church | 12 | |
5677827222 | Counter-Reformation | Movement counter to the spread of the Reformation | 13 | |
5677827223 | Jesuits | Religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola to counter the inroads of the Protestant Reformation | 14 | |
5677827224 | Mercantilism | Economic theory that drove European Empire builders; one's wealth came from another's | 15 | |
5677827225 | Chartered Companies | Firms that were awarded monopoly trading rights over vast areas by European monarchs | 16 | |
5677827226 | Ecological Imperialism | Ideology that Europe settlers was successful and colonized Asia due to introduction of animal, plants, and disease to the new territories | 17 | |
5677827227 | Muscovy | Huge realm that used territorial expansion and commercial networks to consolidate a state | 18 | |
5677827228 | Serfdom | Peasants who farmed the land and paid fees to be protected and governed by the feudalism system | 19 | |
5677827229 | Thirty Years' War | Conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in Germany that escalated into a general European War | 20 | |
5677827230 | Enclosure | A movement in which landowners took control of lands that traditionally had been common property serving local needs | 21 | |
5677827231 | Absolute monarchy | Form of government where one body, monarch, controls the right to tax, judge, make war, and coin money | 22 | |
5677827232 | Seven Years' War | ... | 23 | |
5677827233 | Mehmed the Conqueror | ... | 24 | |
5677827234 | Topkapi Palace | Political headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, located in Istanbul | 25 | |
5677827235 | Janissaries | Corps of infantry soldiers recruited as children from Christian provinces of the Ottoman Empire | 26 | |
5677827236 | Mughal Empire | One of Islam's greatest regimes. Established in 1526 political authority income past India | 27 | |
5677827237 | Zamindars | Archaic tax system of the Mughal empire where decentralized Lords collected tribute for the emperor | 28 | |
5677827238 | Mamluks | Military man who ruled Egypt as an independent regime from 1250 to Ottoman Conquest in 1517 | 29 | |
5677827239 | Devshirme | System for taking a non-muslim children in place of taxes in order to educate them in Ottoman Muslim ways and prepare them to serve the sultan | 30 | |
5677827240 | Akbar the Great | ... | 31 | |
5677827241 | Aurangzeb | ... | 32 | |
5677827242 | Monetization | And economic shift from a barter-based economy to one dependent on coin | 33 | |
5677827243 | Canton System | System officially established by Imperial decree in 1759 that required European traders to have Chinese Guild Merchants act as guarantors for good behavior and payment for fees | 34 | |
5677827244 | Madrasas | Hair schools of Muslim education that taught law,the Quran,religious sciences, and regular Sciences | 35 | |
5677827245 | Taj Mahal | Royal Palace of the Mughal Empire built by Shah Jahan in the 17th century in homemage of his wife, Mumtaz | 36 | |
5677827246 | Footbinding | ... | 37 | |
5677827247 | Cartography | Map making | 38 | |
5677827248 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... | 39 | |
5677827249 | Daimyo | Ruling Lords who commanded private armies in pre-Meiji Japan | 40 | |
5677827250 | Shinto | Japan's official religion | 41 | |
5677827251 | Martin Luther | German who started the Protestant Reformation by posting 95 Theses | 42 |
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