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| 600202877 | Portuguese Empire | This is the term commonly used to describe how the Portuguese forcibly controlled commerce in the Indian Ocean during the early 16th century./The Portuguese were able to establish several fortified bases in important trade locations by military type force partly due to their ships that could outgun and outmaneuver those of other nations. | 0 | |
| 600202878 | Trading Post Empire | This is the type of empire established by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean trading arena./The Portuguese sought to control the commerce in the area and did not want to control large areas of land. | 1 | |
| 600202879 | Ferdinand Magellan | Magellan was Portuguese but he sailed on behalf of Spain and discovered the Philippine Islands on his voyage around the world. /These islands became of interest to the Spanish because of they were close to China and the Spice Islands. | 2 | |
| 600202880 | Spanish Empire | Unlike the Portuguese who were only interested in controlling trade, Spain setup colonies and sought to control land , people and resources./Spanish colonies also provided opportunities for missionary efforts. | 3 | |
| 600202881 | Spanish Philippines | The Spanish assumed control over the Philippine Islands almost without bloodshed primarily because the local population consisted of militarily weak societies and no other country was competing for them./ Over the next century of so, the Philippine Islands became a colony of Spain and remained so until coming under the rule of the US after the Spanish-American War. | 4 | |
| 600202882 | British East India Company | This company was given a charter by the English government giving them a trade monopoly and the right to wage war and govern conquered people./Due to their military might, the British and Dutch were able to overtake the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean trade arena. | 5 | |
| 600202883 | Dutch East India Company | This company was given a charter by the Dutch government giving them a trade monopoly and the right to wage war and govern conquered people./As part of these efforts, the Dutch used force to gain a monopoly on some spices by seizing control of some spice producing islands and replacing the native populations with Dutch settlers. | 6 | |
| 600202884 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who controlled their own samurai warriors./These warriors often found the military ingenuity of the European powers appealing. | 7 | |
| 600202885 | Samurai | Warriors who were loyal to a feudal lord in Japan./The samurai helped feudal lords maintain conflict in Japan for many years. | 8 | |
| 600202886 | Shogun | Supreme military commander who unified Japan politically./Shoguns began to think of the European influence as damaging to Japan. | 9 | |
| 600202887 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Shogun clan who believed that outside influences were bad for Japan and who closed off the country from Europe./While the Tokugawa kept Japan from trading with European countries, they maintained trade with China and Korea. | 10 | |
| 600202888 | Silver trade | The discovery of rich silver deposits in Bolivia and Japan created new sources of wealth for the Europeans./Spanish America produced 85% of the world's silver and through its trade established the first link between Asia and the Americas. Much silver ended up in China. | 11 | |
| 600202889 | Fur trade | The depletion of furs in Europe and the advent of a Little Ice Age with unusually cold temperatures made furs very valuable./European traders saw the Americas as a ready source of furs. Many paid local Indians for their furs./A high demand for beaver pelts led to the near extinction of the animal. | 12 | |
| 600202890 | Siberia | Siberia became a major source of furs for Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire./The abundance of furs was the chief reason for the rapid expansion of Russia across Siberia. Russia required tribute from the inhabitants of Siberia payable in furs and ensured these were given by holding family members hostage. | 13 | |
| 600202891 | Atlantic Slave Trade | The trade of human beings taken from Africa and transported to Europe, the Caribbean and primarily the Americas./This practice forever changed the societies of all its participants. | 14 | |
| 600202892 | Middle Passage | The Middle Passage was the trade route that moved Africans from their homes to lives of slavery in the Americas./About 14% of those taken died during the passage across the Atlantic while many others died during capture and transport to the African coast. | 15 | |
| 600202893 | African Diaspora | The practice of capturing and transporting Africans out of Africa created a spread of African people across the Atlantic./These Africans changed the populations of the lands where they were enslaved and they brought with them their culture and traditions which influenced those societies in ways apparent even today. | 16 | |
| 600202894 | Trans-Saharan slave trade | This was a trade network that carried African captives into the Mediterranean to be slaves./This trade network operated primarily in the Muslim world. | 17 | |
| 600202895 | Sugar trade | In the West Indies trade made possible by the demand for sugar in Europe and the readily available source of slaves in Africa./Sugar plantations were a "modern" industry in that they required a large capital investment, technology, large labor source and a mass market of consumers. | 18 | |
| 600202896 | Dahomey | Kingdom in West Africa that was heavily involved in the slave trade and kept it under strict royal control./The Kingdom of Dahomey participated in far reaching trade networks and enjoyed goods from around the world. | 19 |
