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| 8567038542 | Trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 0 | |
| 8567046679 | Cartaz | A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. | 1 | |
| 8567055220 | 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. | 2 | |
| 8567070937 | Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600. | 3 | |
| 8567082297 | 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. | 4 | |
| 8567097331 | Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. | 5 | |
| 8567106667 | Silver drain | The siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East; eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China. | 6 | |
| 8567125705 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 7 | |
| 8567135721 | Benin | West African kingdom whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. | 8 | |
| 8567150549 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. | 9 |
