AP World History - Chapter 15 Flashcards
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| 3030371383 | African diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. | 0 | |
| 3030371384 | Banda Islands (pron. BAHN-dah) | 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 | |
| 3030371385 | Benin (pron. be-NEEN) | West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. | 2 | |
| 3030371386 | 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 | |
| 3030376297 | cartaz (pron. car-TAHZ) | A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean. | 4 | |
| 3030371387 | Dahomey (pron. dah-HOH-mee) | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. | 5 | |
| 3030371388 | daimyo (pron. DIME-yoh) | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. | 6 | |
| 3030371389 | Hurons (pron. HYOOR-ons) | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade. | 7 | |
| 3030371390 | 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. | 8 | |
| 3030371391 | Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era. | 9 | |
| 3030371392 | Ferdinand Magellan (pron. mah-GELL-an) | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519- 1521). | 10 | |
| 3030371393 | 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 | |
| 3030371394 | Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. | 12 | |
| 3030371395 | 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 | |
| 3030371396 | Potosà (pron. poh-toh-SEE) | 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. | 14 | |
| 3030371397 | samurai (pron. SAH-moo-rie) | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. | 15 | |
| 3030371398 | shogun (pron. SHOW-gun) | In Japan, a supreme military commander. | 16 | |
| 3030371399 | "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 | |
| 3030371400 | "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 | |
| 3030371401 | 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 Philip II of Spain. | 19 | |
| 3030371402 | Tokugawa shogunate (pron. toekoo- GOW-ah SHOW-gun-at) | Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments. | 20 | |
| 3030371403 | trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. | 21 |