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AP World Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indian Ocean commercial network | The massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia); the network was transformed as Europeans entered it in the centuries following 1500. |
| trading post empire | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade through military power rather than on control of peoples of territories |
| 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; named in honor of King Philip II of Spain |
| Manila | The capital of the Philippines, which by 1600 had become a flourishing and culturally diverse city; the site of violent clashes between the Spanish and Chinese |
| British East India Company | Private trading company chartered by the English around 1600, mainly focused on India; it was given a monopoly on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples |
| Dutch East India Company | Private trading company chartered by the Netherlands around 1600; mainly focused on Indonesia; it was given a monopoly on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples |
| silver drain | Term used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for luxury goods of the East, exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were wanted in Eastern markets; eventually most of the world's silver supply made its way to China |
| piece of eight | The standard Spanish silver coin used by merchants in North America, Europe, India, Russia, West Africa, and China |
| 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 160,000 in the 1570s |
| fur trade | A global industry in which French, British, and Dutch traders exported fur from North America to Europe; using North American labor with great environmental cost to the Americas. A similar commerce operated in Russian control of Siberia |
| soft gold | Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status |
| transatlantic slave system | Between 1500-1866, trade in humans that took about 12.5 million people from Africa, shipped them across the Atlantic in the Middle Passage, and deposited 10.7 million people in the Americas as slaves, approximately 1.8 million died during the crossing |
| African diaspora | The global spread of African peoples via the slave trade |
| maroon societies | Free communities of former slaves in remote regions of South America and the Caribbean; the largest such settlement was Palmares in Brazil; which housed 10,000 or more people for most of the 17th century |
| signares | The small number of African women who were able to exercise power and accumulate wealth through marriage to European traders |
| Benin | West African kingdom in what is now Nigeria whose strong kings for a time sharply limited engagement with the slave trade |
| Dahomey | West African kingdom in which the slave trade became a major state-controlled industry |
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