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| 8760838611 | African Diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade | 0 | |
| 8760842369 | Banda Islands | Infamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly the entire population of these nutmeg-producing islands was killed or enslaved and then replaced with Dutch planters. | 1 | |
| 8760849515 | Benin | West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. | 2 | |
| 8760857986 | British/Dutch East India Companies | Private trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples. | 3 | |
| 8760859139 | Cartaz | A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean | 4 | |
| 8760870449 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade | 5 | |
| 8760870450 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors | 6 | |
| 8760871615 | Hurons | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade | 7 | |
| 8760872362 | Indian ocean Commercial Network | The massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500 | 8 | |
| 8760872363 | Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era | 9 | |
| 8760874189 | Magellan, Ferdinand | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe | 10 | |
| 8760874190 | Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600 | 11 | |
| 8760875034 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas | 12 | |
| 8760875035 | Piece of Eight | Standard Spanish coin that became a medium of exchange in North America, Europe, India, Russia, and West Africa as well as in the Spanish Empire, so called because it was worth 8 reales | 13 | |
| 8760875728 | Potosi | City that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570's | 14 | |
| 8760875729 | Samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan | 15 | |
| 8760875730 | Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander | 16 | |
| 8760877852 | Silver Drain | Term often used, along with "specie drain," to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets; eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China | 17 | |
| 8760937372 | "Soft Gold" | Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it | 18 | |
| 8760938341 | Spanish Philippines | An archipelago of Pacific Islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization; the Spanish named them the Philippine Islands in honor of King Phillip II of Spain | 19 | |
| 8760938342 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments | 20 | |
| 8760939471 | Trading Post Empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples | 21 |
