AP World History Chapter 14 Vocabulary Flashcards

8637159343	African Diaspora	Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.	0
8637159344	Benin	West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.	1
8637159345	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
8637159346	Dahomey	West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.	3
8637159347	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
8637159348	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
8637159349	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
8637159350	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
8637159351	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
8637159352	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
8637159353	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
8637159354	Trading post empire	Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.	11