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Chapter 15 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| African Diaspora | Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade. |
| 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. |
| Benin | West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kinds sharply limited engagement with the slave trade. |
| British/Dutch East India companies | Private trading companies charted by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on India Ocean trade, including the right to make war and kill conquered peoples. |
| Dahomey | West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade. |
| Daimyo | Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors. |
| Hurons | Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade. |
| Indian Ocean commercial network | The massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the land that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500. |
| Little Ice Age | A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era. |
| Magellan Ferdinand | Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521) |
| Manila | Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more that 40,000 by 1600. |
| Middle Passage | Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas. |
| Piece of eight | Standard Spanish coin that became a medium of exchange in North America, Europe, India, Russia, ad West Africa as well as in the Spanish Empire; so called because it was worth 8 reales. |
| Potosi | City that developed high in the Andes at the site of the world's largest silver mine and then became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in 1570s. |
| Samurai | The warrior elite of medieval Japan. |
| Shogun | In Japan, a supreme military commander. |
| Silver Drain | Term used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East. |
| 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. |
| Spanish Philippines | An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, accompanied by a major effort at evangelization; named in honor of King Philip II. |
| 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. |
| trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. |
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