AP World History Chapter 14 Flashcards

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