Ap World History - Summerville High School
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| world economy | created by Europeans during the late 16th century; based on control of the seas; established an international exchange of foods, diseases, and manufactured products.
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| Cape of Good Hope | southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India.
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| Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator in the service of Aragon and Castile; sailed west to find a route to India and instead came upon the Americas in 1492.
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| East India Companies | British and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions.
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| Lepanto | naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman Empire resulting in Spanish victory in 1571; demonstrated European naval superiority over Muslims.
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| core nations | nations, usually European, that profited from the world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services; exported manufactured goods and imported raw materials.
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| mercantilism | the colonial economic policy, by which a colonizing nation must import only from its own colonies, but sell exports as widely as possible.
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| mestizos | people of mixed European and Native American heritage.
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| Vasco de Balboa | (1475?–1517), Spanish adventurer; explored Central America.
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| Francisco Pizarro | (1478–1541); Spanish explorer; arrived in the Americas in 1502; joined Balboa in Panama, then successfully attacked the Inca Empire.
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| New France | French colonies in Canada and elsewhere; extended along St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes and down Mississippi River valley system.
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| Seven Years’ War | fought in Europe, Africa, and Asia between 1756 and 1763; the first worldwide war.
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| Treaty of Paris | concluded in 1763 following the Seven Years’ War; Britain gained New France and ended France’s importance in India.
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| Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to provide a coastal station for Dutch ships traveling to and from Asia; settlers expanded and fought with Bantu and other Africans.
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| Boers | Dutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony before 19th-century British occupation; later called Afrikaners.
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| Calcutta | British East India Company headquarters in Bengal; captured in 1756 by Indians; later became administrative center for populous Bengal.
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