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| 8809386167 | Trans-Oceanic Trade | 0 | ||
| 8809390354 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres. | 1 | |
| 8809393157 | Mercantillism | belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. | 2 | |
| 8809393158 | Triangular Trade | European trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods | 3 | |
| 8809396603 | Middle Passage | the leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas | 4 | |
| 8809402307 | Caravel | A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations | 5 | |
| 8809404599 | Cartography | science or art of making maps | 6 | |
| 8809413358 | Joint-Stock companies | businesses in which investors pool their wealth to sponsor a voyage and set up a colony. Then if that colony is profitable, they each receive some of the money | 7 | |
| 8809416850 | East India Companies | British, French, and Dutch trading companies; monopolies trade to India and Asia | 8 | |
| 8809425656 | Royal African Company | Chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants | 9 | |
| 8809425657 | Amerindians | the group of people that were present in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans | 10 | |
| 8809429807 | Vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. | 11 | |
| 8809429808 | Christopher Columbus | He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. | 12 | |
| 8809431943 | Magellan | Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world | 13 | |
| 8809431944 | Vasco da Gama | four armed merchant ships bound for India. His return Voyage was especially difficult less than half his crew made it back to Portugal | 14 | |
| 8809435021 | Zheng He | A Chinese admiral and diplomat who voyaged overseas to promote trade and collect tribute during the Ming dynasty | 15 | |
| 8809437419 | Chattel Slavery | ` Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person. | 16 | |
| 8809437420 | El Mina | Most important of the early Portuguese trading factories in the forest zone of Africa | 17 | |
| 8809440709 | Gun-Slave cycle | Slave-gun cycle describes the cycle when viewed from the perspective of Africans, being. initiated by political and economic ambitions that drive them to exchange slaves for the latest. military technology which is used to capture more slaves. | 18 | |
| 8809440710 | Plantation Economy | slaves brought to the country to work on plantations, slave labor was used to harvest and maintain cash crops | 19 | |
| 8809444510 | Indentured servitude | former slaves go work on a foreign country for landowners -> could be freed after x amount of years | 20 | |
| 8809444511 | Encomienda System | the right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area. | 21 | |
| 8809460836 | Hacienda System | similar to the feudal system, Natives got money and had to buy their products from their owners | 22 | |
| 8810486852 | Mita system | economic system in Incan society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced | 23 | |
| 8809460837 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class. | 24 | |
| 8809463384 | Creoles | a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean. | 25 | |
| 8809465659 | Mestizos | People of mixed Indian and European heritage, notably in Mexico. | 26 | |
| 8809465660 | Mulattos | a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent. | 27 | |
| 8809468217 | Sociedad de castas | Spanish American social system based on racial origins | 28 | |
| 8809471715 | Cape Colony | South African land settled by Dutch colonists called Boers in the 1600s and 1700s | 29 | |
| 8809471716 | Boers | Dutch people who settled in Cape Town, Africa, and eventually migrated inland | 30 | |
| 8809471717 | Great trek | A migration of Dutch colonists out of British-controlled territory in South Africa during the 1830s. | 31 | |
| 8809475865 | Potosi | silver mine in South America (modern day Bolivia), very large, required many slaves | 32 | |
| 8809503479 | Manchus | Federation of Northeast Asian (from Manchuria) peoples who founded the Qing Empire. | 33 | |
| 8809509297 | Ming Dynasty | 1368-1644 CE Chinese dynasty in which Chinese rule was restored; held power from 1368 to 1644 | 34 | |
| 8809509298 | Tokugawa shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences A dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867 | 35 | |
| 8809512413 | Asante kingdom | kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade | 36 | |
| 8809566527 | Dahomey kingdom | An African kingdom that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire. | 37 | |
| 8809566528 | The Zulu | This Bantu speaking group became powerful in the early 1800s in the Southern part of Africa | 38 | |
| 8809566748 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. | 39 | |
| 8809587738 | 7 years war | a global conflict in that it took place in several distinct geographic theaters Europe India the Caribbean and North America | 40 | |
| 8809593681 | French and Indian war | A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. | 41 | |
| 8809596581 | Treaty of Tordesillas | treaty signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494 which divided the non-European world between them | 42 | |
| 8809599641 | Treaty of Zaragosa | A treaty signed by Portugal and Spain to divided up Asia. | 43 | |
| 8809601492 | Council of the Indies | guided royal policy and served as the highest court for colonial affairs | 44 | |
| 8809601493 | Viceroyaltises | representatives for the Spanish king in Mexico City and Lima | 45 | |
| 8809606024 | Japan's Closed Country policy | Japans period of Isolation to not let outside influences corrupt their tradition. Only interacted with the Dutch and China | 46 |
