AP world history Chapter 13 id terms Flashcards
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8558569072 | Plantation complex | agricultural plantation in the south of North America | 0 | |
8558569506 | Qing Dynasty | Ruling dynasty in China from 1600-1900 | 1 | |
8558570711 | Settler Colonies | Colonies where people settled in large groups rather than small to exploit the land | 2 | |
8558572172 | Siberia | Vast territory that is now central and eastern Russia | 3 | |
8558573461 | Yasak | tribute that Russian leaders demanded from the Siberian natives, usually expensive furs | 4 | |
8558574459 | Zunghars | substantial state amoung the western Mongols | 5 | |
8558575312 | Vasco de Gama | European explorer | 6 | |
8558576053 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Settled who got which land in the Americas between Spain and Portugal in 1494, as well as Portugal's rights | 7 | |
8558576965 | Akbar | India's most famous emperor from 1556-1605, third Mughal emperor | 8 | |
8558577912 | Aurangzeb | 6th and last effective Mughal emperor, 1658- death in 1707 | 9 | |
8558579525 | Columbian Exchange | Trade of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technologies, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World | 10 | |
8558581918 | Conquistador | Soldiers and explorers of the Spanish or Portuguese Empire | 11 | |
8558585055 | Creoles | Spaniards born in Spain | 12 | |
8558585655 | Devshirme | collecting of young boys in balkan communities, trained of either civil administration or military service in elite Janissary units | 13 | |
8558587720 | Ecomienda | legal system where the Spanish crown appointed Spanish settlers a number of native people that they could use for service and whom they owed protection | 14 | |
8558590739 | Fixed winds | the prevailing winds of the Atlantic that blow towards the western hemisphere | 15 | |
8558597278 | "The Great Dying" | Devastating population loss from European-born diseases | 16 | |
8558598151 | Jizya | a special tax for non-Muslims | 17 | |
8558598903 | Mercantilism | economic theory that the government should encourage exportation and trade | 18 | |
8558605155 | Mestizo | term used to describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas | 19 | |
8558606222 | Mulattoes | people with a mixed race of African and European | 20 | |
8558608649 | Peninsulares | Spaniards born in Spain: landowning Spaniards | 21 |