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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prinsogeniture | the right of succession belonging to the first born son |
| cartography | the science or practice of drawing maps |
| astronomical chart | a map of the night sky used by sailors and others for navigation during 1750-1750 |
| maritime empires | an empire that relies primarily on naval power to expand |
| mercantilism | an economic theory where a nations power is based on accumulating wealth |
| trading post empires | type of maritime empire based on control of trade rather than territorial conquest |
| Manila | Spanish commercial center in the Philippines that attracted traders |
| Prince Henry | Portuguese prince who sponsored and directed maritime explorations |
| Galleon | large, multi-decked, armed sailing ships used for trade and naval warfare |
| Bartholomew Diaz | Portuguese explorer who became the first European around the southern tip of Africa |
| Vass da Great | Portuguese explorer who became the first european to sail india by sea |
| Ferdinand Magellon | Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from 1519-1522 |
| Northwest passage | sea route through the artic ocean connecting the Atlantic and pacific ocean |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer who made three voyages to North America claiming St Lawrence region |
| Samuel De Champlain | French Explorer navigator and cartographer known as the Father of france |
| john cabot | Italian explorer who sailing for england under King Henry VII reached the coast of canada |
| Henry Hudson | English explorer famous for his failed attempt to find North West passage to Asia |
| Quellee | First permanent settlement in North America |
| New France | Collection of French colonies and territories in Eastern North America |
| Jamestown | first english settlement in North America |
| New Amsterdam | name for a dutch colonial settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island |
| Small poxs | highly contagious and deadly infection |
| Conquistedors | Spanish and Portuguese explorers and soldiers who colonized America |
| Maize | Cereal grain domesticated in southern Mexico |
| Cacao | Crop that originated in Africa and brought to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade |
| Okra | Crop that originated in Africa and brought to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade |
| Creole | people of Europe descent born in America |
| Gumbo | stew that symbolizes the cultural diffusion and synthesis that occurred in colonial period |
| Engehos | Portuguese language term for a sugar plantation |
| Cash crop | agricultural product grown primarily for sale |
| African diaspora | dispersion of people of African descent across the globe |
| Asante Empire | powerful west African state known for its wealth from Gold and complete political structure |
| Kingdom of Kango | powerful west central African state |
| Frareisco Pi carro | Spanish conquistador known for his conquest of the Inca empire |
| Ataluolpa | last sovereign emperor of the inca empire |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided the non-European world along a north and south line in the Atlantic Ocean |
| Hispaniola | Caribbean island where Christopher Columbus first made contact with America in 1942 |
| Indentured Sevitude | labor system where individuals in exchange for passage to a new land agree to work |
| Chattel Slavery | system where enslaved people are treated as the personal property of the owners |
| Encomienda | Spanish colonial system where spanish colonists granted natives as a form of tribute and labor |
| encomendreros | spanish colonists who were granted the right to extract labor and tribute from a group of native people |
| Hacienda system | large estate or plantation system in Spanish colonial America |
| Mita system | mandatory labor service in the inca empire that required citizens to work on public projects and was later used by the spanish |
| Joint stock companies | business entity where multiple investors bought shares |
| Limited liability | legal concept that protects business owners from being personally responsible for the companies debts |
| Syneretism | the blending of fusion of different beliefs, practice, and cultural elements to form a new cohesive system |
| Polygying | form a marriage where on e man is married to multiple women at the same time |
| Santeriq | syncretic religion that emerged from the forces fusion of yorusa spiritual beliefs and roman catholic |
| Vodun | religion developed in west africa and was brought to the americas by enslaved people |
| Mirs | russian peasant village that controlled communication, land ownership, and self governing |
| ana nzinga | Queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms in central Africa who fiercely resisted Portuguese colonization and the transatlantic slave trade |
| Yem Elyan | Pugashev cossck who led a major rebellion against Catherine the Great |
| Queen Nanny | powerful leader of escaped enslaves people who waged war against the British to secure freedom for her people |
| William of orange | Dutch prince and later kind of england who led the Glorious Revolution |
| Fronde | series of civil wars in france from 1453-1643 |
| Metacoms War | major conflict in New England where Metacom led an alliance of Native Americans tibes |
| Pueblo Revolt | uprising in which Pueblo people revolted against the Spanish colonizers |
| Maroon Wars | Conflicts fought between communities of escaped enslaves Africans and colonial powers to defend their freedom and autonomy |
| Gloucester county rebllion | conspiracy by both enslaves Africans and white indentured servants in Virginia to overthrow colonial authority |
| Glorious Revolution | overthrow of King James II and Mary II which led to a constitutional monarchy |
| Mehned II | ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople ending the Byzantine empire and marking a major turning point |
| Akbar The Great | Third Mughal emperor who was known for his military expansion, administrative, reform, and policies of religious tolerance |
| Roxelana | Figure in the ottoman empire who rose from a captured slave to become the legal wife of salture sulegman |
| Manchu | ethic group form Northeast Asia who conquered China and overthrew the Ming Dynasty |
| Li Chengdong | Han Chinese general who under the direction of the Qing Dynasty orchestrated 2 massacres in the city of Tading |
| Timar | land grant system in the ottoman empire that provided military cavalrymen with revent from land in exchange for service |
| Harem | Private living quarters for women in Muslim |
| Boyar | Powerful landowning aristocratie class in Medieval and modern russia |
| Serf | agricultural laborers bound to a land under the feudal system |
| Peninsullores | people born in Spain of Portugal who held the highest social, political and economical positions |
| Criolla | people of pure Spanish decent but born in America |
| Castos | hierarchical social structure in Spanish colonies of the Americas that classified into a radical and ethnic hierarchy based on ancestry |
| Mestoizos | person of mixed European and Indigenous American Ancestry |
| Melatolas | people of mixed African and European ancestry |
| Zanbas | people of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry in Spanish colonies |
| Barbar Pirates | Muslim privateers operating from the Barbary states |
| Queues | mandatory hairstyle all Chinese men were forced to wear by the Qing Dynasty |
| Sephardie Jew | jew of Spanish and Portuguese decent |
| Ashkenazi | Jewish ethnic group whose ancestors lived in central and Eastern Europe. |
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