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Chapter 15 Terms

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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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