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| 325065618 | Mulattos | Those with European and African history. | 0 | |
| 325065619 | Joint-stock company | An organization created to pool the resources of many merchants, thereby distributing the costs and risks of colonization and reducing the danger for individual investors. | 1 | |
| 325065620 | Montezuma | Aztec ruler. | 2 | |
| 325065621 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 3 | |
| 325065622 | Viceroys | Royal governors sent by Spain to rule in the King's name. | 4 | |
| 325065623 | Age of Exploration | Time period during the 15th and 16th centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for easier trade routes to China and India. Resulted in the discovery of North and South America by the Europeans. | 5 | |
| 325065624 | English Bill of Rights | King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people. | 6 | |
| 325065625 | Mercantilism | An economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests. | 7 | |
| 325065626 | Act of Supremacy | Declared the king (Henry VIII) the supreme head of the Church of England in 1534. | 8 | |
| 325065627 | Petition of Right | A document limiting taxes and forbidding unlawful imprisonment. | 9 | |
| 325065628 | Habeas Corpus Act | Protects people from arrests without due process. | 10 | |
| 325065629 | Edict of Nantes | 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship. | 11 | |
| 325065630 | Peace of Augsburg | 1555- Agreement declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler. | 12 | |
| 325065631 | Thirty Years' War | Began in 1618 when the Protestant territories in Bohemia challenged the authority of the Holy Roman Catholic emperor. | 13 | |
| 325065632 | Peace of Westphalia | The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648. | 14 | |
| 325065633 | Cossacks | Peasant-soldiers that expanded Russian territories in the 16th-18th centuries into Siberia and southward to the Caspian Sea. | 15 | |
| 325065634 | Time of Troubles | Followed death of Ivan IV without heir early in 17th century; boyars attempted to use vacuum of power to reestablish their authority; ended with selection of Michael Romanov as tsar in 1613. | 16 | |
| 325065635 | Peter the Great | Ruled from 1682 - 1725. He built Russia's first navy and founded St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea as his new capital. | 17 | |
| 325065636 | Janissaries | Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan. | 18 | |
| 325065637 | Babur | Brilliant general who laid the foundation for the Mughal Empire. | 19 | |
| 325065638 | Mughal Empire | A period of Muslim rule of India from the 1500s to the 1700s. | 20 | |
| 325065639 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 21 | |
| 325065640 | National Seclusion Policy | Prohibited Japanese from traveling abroad, and prohibited most foreigners from visiting Japan. | 22 | |
| 325065641 | Tokuwaga Shogunate | A strict and rigid government that ruled Japan until 1868. | 23 | |
| 325065642 | Qianlong | Emperor of China, son of Kangxi expanded China's bounderies extensively. Would only rule for sixty years so as to not dishonor his grandfather. | 24 |
