Chapters 18-21 of The Earth and it's Peoples
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| 332092746 | Philip Quaque | African man who went to Europe to learn European ways, educated in England and ordained as a priest in the Church of England and became the official chaplain of the Cape Coast Castle | 0 | |
| 332092747 | Bight of Biafra | between the 16th and 19th centuries, this area was the scene of extensive slave-dealing operations. | 1 | |
| 332092748 | Dutch West India Company | trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa. | 2 | |
| 332092749 | Hausa | an agricultural and trading people of central Sudan in West Africa. Aside from their brief incorporation into the Songhai Empire, the Hausa city-states remained autonomous until the Sokoto Caliphate conquered them in the early 19th century | 3 | |
| 332092750 | Maroon | a slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America. | 4 | |
| 332092751 | Royal African Company | a trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa | 5 | |
| 332092752 | Songhai | a people, language, kingdom, and empire in western Sudan in West Africa. At its height, the Muslim Songhai Empire stretched from the Atlantic to the land of the Hausa. Major players in trans-Saharan trade. | 6 | |
| 332092753 | African Slavery | 10-15 million people taken from Africa between 1500 and 1870, Several million more people killed in slave raids and forced marches to the coast. Most bought from African slave traders, at least 15% died in horrible conditions aboard slave ships. | 7 | |
| 332092754 | Atlantic Circuit | the network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system (it looks like a triangle) | 8 | |
| 332092755 | Capitalism | economic system of large financial institutions (banks, stock exchanges, investment companies) that first developed in early modern Europe. Individuals could participate, not just the State/Government. One could rise in station in this system due to monetary reasons. | 9 | |
| 332092756 | Chartered Companies | groups of PRIVATE investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies | 10 | |
| 332092757 | Islamic Slave Trade | Deported approximately 10 million Africans to the Mediterranean basin, Southwest Asia, and the Indian Ocean basin (8th - 20th centuries) | 11 | |
| 332092758 | Mercantilism | European government policies of the 16th/17th/18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies. Gaining as many precious metals as possible was the goal. One cannot rise in station in this system (due to monetary reasons). | 12 | |
| 332092759 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | 13 | |
| 332092760 | Plantocracy | (in the West Indian colonies) the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the 18th century | 14 | |
| 332092761 | Sugar Production | Spanish colonies in Brazil and the Caribbean became mass producers of sugar. Slaves were used. | 15 | |
| 332092762 | Dahomey | (ca. 1650- 1894) African kingdom in present day southern Benin, reaching its height of influence in the eighteenth century. Its leaders sought regional power by raiding for slaves in other kingdoms and then selling the, for firearms and other European goods | 16 | |
| 332092763 | Akbar I | Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. | 17 | |
| 332092764 | Aurangzeb | great-grandson of Akbar who brought back old restrictions on Hindus. asshole. | 18 | |
| 332092765 | Babur | founder of the Mughal Empire, a Muslim descendant of both Timur and Genghis Khan. Grandfather of Akbar I. | 19 | |
| 332092766 | Selim I (the Grim) | conquered Egypt and Syria, making the Red Sea the Ottomans' southern frontier. He was the father of Suleiman the Magnificent | 20 | |
| 332092767 | Shah Abbas I | the 5th and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran. He moved the royal capital to Isfahan in 1598. | 21 | |
| 332092768 | Suleiman the Magnificent | the most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Also known as Suleiman Kanuni "the Lawgiver." He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean | 22 | |
| 332092769 | Batavia | Fort established ca. 1619 as headquarters of Dutch East India Company operations in Indonesia; today the city of Jakarta | 23 | |
| 332092770 | Caucasus | the Christian converts to Islam who initially provided the man power for the new corps were mostly captives taken in raids on Georgia in the _________. | 24 | |
| 332092771 | Devshirme | Ottoman policy of taking boys from Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers | 25 | |
| 332092772 | Grand Viziers | second in command to the sultan | 26 | |
| 332092773 | Janissaries | infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the 15th century until the corps was abolished in 1826 | 27 | |
| 332092774 | Oman | Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southeast region of the Arabian peninsula. It succeeded Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean in the 18th century. | 28 | |
| 332092775 | Rajputs | members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar married a Rajput princess. | 29 | |
| 332092776 | Swahili | Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa | 30 | |
| 332092777 | Acheh Sultanate | Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, in declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal in 1641 | 31 | |
| 332092778 | Mughal Empire | Muslim state exercising dominion over most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries. | 32 | |
| 332092779 | Safavid Empire | Iranian kingdom established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state. | 33 | |
| 332092780 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 34 | |
| 332092781 | Tulip Period | Last years of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul | 35 |
