AP World History Chapter 14 Vocabulary Flashcards

7842677953	African Diaspora	Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.	0
7842677954	Benin	West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.	1
7842677955	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.	2
7842677956	Dahomey	West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.	3
7842677957	Ayuba Suleiman Diallo	Sold into slavery in West Africa and transported to work on a plantation in Maryland in 1730, this well-educated Muslim (1700-1773) became a celebrity in England because of his life story. He returned to his home in West Africa in 1734 after philanthropists brought his freedom.	4
7842677958	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, and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500.	5
7842677959	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 1570s.	6
7842677960	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.	7
7842677961	Soft Gold	Nicknames used in 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.	8
7842677962	Philippines (Spanish)	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 Philip II of Spain.	9
7842677963	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.	10
7842677964	Trading post empire	Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.	11
7842677965	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.	12
7842677966	Cartaz	A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean.	13
7842677967	Daimyo	Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors.	14
7842677968	Hurons	Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade.	15
7842677969	Little Ice Age	A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era.	16
7842677970	Magellan, Ferdinand	Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521).	17
7842677971	Manilla	Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600.	18
7842677972	Middle Passage	Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas.	19
7842677973	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.	20
7842677974	Samurai	The warrior elite of medieval Japan.	21
7842677975	Shogun	In Japan, a supreme military commander.	22