Ap World History Chapter European Trading Networks Flashcards
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324162762 | "Silver Drain" | Term often used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East. | 0 | |
324162763 | Africa Diaspora | Name given tot he spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade | 1 | |
324162764 | Banda Islands | Infamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly entire population of these nutmeg-producing islands was killed or enslaved and then replaced with Dutch planters. | 2 | |
324162765 | Benin | West African kingdom whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. | 3 | |
324162766 | Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. | 4 | |
324162767 | Dutch East Indian Company | Private trading companies charted by the governments of England and Netherlands. | 5 | |
324162768 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European fleet to circumnavigate the globe | 6 | |
324162769 | Fur | ._. hmm, I wonder what this is? DERP. | 7 | |
324162770 | Hurons | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade | 8 | |
324162772 | Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era. | 9 | |
324162774 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 10 | |
324162776 | Pieces of eight | Standard Spanish coin! | 11 | |
324162777 | Potosi | City that developed high int he Andes at the site of the worlds largest silver mine and became largest city in the Americans | 12 | |
324162779 | Prester John | Ruled over Christian Natiion | 13 | |
324162781 | Spanish Philippines | Specific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565 | 14 | |
324162783 | Sugar | Om nom nom | 15 | |
324162785 | Tokugawa shogunate | Military Rulers of Japan | 16 | |
324162787 | Trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 17 |