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5677827209EntrepotsTrading st as tons at the borders between communities which made exchange possible among many different partners0
5677827210ColoniesRegions under the political control of another country1
5677827211CaravelSailing vessel suited for nosing in and out of estuaries and navigating waters with unpredictable currents and winds2
5677827212New WorldTerm applied to the Americas that reflected the Europeans' view that anything previously unknown to them was "new"3
5677827213ConquistadorsSpanish military leaders who led the conquest of the New World in the 16th century4
5677827214MestizosMixed-blood of offspring of Spanish settlers and Native Indians5
5677827215EncomiendasGrants from European Spanish governors to control the labor Services of colonized people6
5677827216Columbian ExchangeMovements between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas of previously unknown plants, animals, people, diseases, and products7
5677827217SmallpoxDisease that spread into the Americas by European settlers8
5677827218PlantationAn estate which crops are cultivated by resident labor9
5677827219Atlantic SystemNew system of trade and expansion, that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas10
5677827220Holy Roman EmpireEnormous realm that encompassed much of Europe and aspired to be the Christian successor state to the Roman Empire11
5677827221Protestant ReformationReligious movement by Martin Luther who criticized the Catholic Church12
5677827222Counter-ReformationMovement counter to the spread of the Reformation13
5677827223JesuitsReligious order founded by Ignatius Loyola to counter the inroads of the Protestant Reformation14
5677827224MercantilismEconomic theory that drove European Empire builders; one's wealth came from another's15
5677827225Chartered CompaniesFirms that were awarded monopoly trading rights over vast areas by European monarchs16
5677827226Ecological ImperialismIdeology that Europe settlers was successful and colonized Asia due to introduction of animal, plants, and disease to the new territories17
5677827227MuscovyHuge realm that used territorial expansion and commercial networks to consolidate a state18
5677827228SerfdomPeasants who farmed the land and paid fees to be protected and governed by the feudalism system19
5677827229Thirty Years' WarConflict began between Protestants and Catholics in Germany that escalated into a general European War20
5677827230EnclosureA movement in which landowners took control of lands that traditionally had been common property serving local needs21
5677827231Absolute monarchyForm of government where one body, monarch, controls the right to tax, judge, make war, and coin money22
5677827232Seven Years' War...23
5677827233Mehmed the Conqueror...24
5677827234Topkapi PalacePolitical headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, located in Istanbul25
5677827235JanissariesCorps of infantry soldiers recruited as children from Christian provinces of the Ottoman Empire26
5677827236Mughal EmpireOne of Islam's greatest regimes. Established in 1526 political authority income past India27
5677827237ZamindarsArchaic tax system of the Mughal empire where decentralized Lords collected tribute for the emperor28
5677827238MamluksMilitary man who ruled Egypt as an independent regime from 1250 to Ottoman Conquest in 151729
5677827239DevshirmeSystem 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 sultan30
5677827240Akbar the Great...31
5677827241Aurangzeb...32
5677827242MonetizationAnd economic shift from a barter-based economy to one dependent on coin33
5677827243Canton SystemSystem 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 fees34
5677827244MadrasasHair schools of Muslim education that taught law,the Quran,religious sciences, and regular Sciences35
5677827245Taj MahalRoyal Palace of the Mughal Empire built by Shah Jahan in the 17th century in homemage of his wife, Mumtaz36
5677827246Footbinding...37
5677827247CartographyMap making38
5677827248Tokugawa Ieyasu...39
5677827249DaimyoRuling Lords who commanded private armies in pre-Meiji Japan40
5677827250ShintoJapan's official religion41
5677827251Martin LutherGerman who started the Protestant Reformation by posting 95 Theses42

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