All Words

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Aurangzeb

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Mughal Emperor who reversed his predecessors policies of religious tolerance

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Akbar

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The most famous emperor in India’s Mughal Empire; His policies were for religious tolerance

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Columnist Exchange

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The massive transatlantic interaction and exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia

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Conquistadors

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Spanish conquerors of the Native American lands, most notably the Aztecs and Incas

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Constantinople, 1453

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The capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire

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Creoles

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Spaniards born in the Americas

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Devshirme

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The tribute of boy children that the Ottoman Turks levied from their Christian subjects in the Balkans

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Fixed winds

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The prevailing winds of the Atlantic, which blows steadily in the same direction

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The great dying

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Term used to describe the devastating demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas

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Jizya

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Special tax levied on non Muslims in Islamic states

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Mercantilism

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An economic therapy that argues that governments best serve their states economic interests by encouraging exports

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Mestizo

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Literally mixed: a term used to describe the mixed race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas

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Mulattoes

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Term used of mixed African and European blood

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Ottoman Empire

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Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to be the Balkans

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Peninsulares

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In the Spanish colonies of laying America, term used to refer to people who had been born in Spain

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Plantation complex

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Agricultural system based on African slavery that was used in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern colonies of North America

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Qing Dynasty

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Ruling dynasty of China from 1644 to 1912

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Settler colonies

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Colonies in which the the colonizing people settled in large numbers

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Siberia

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Russia’s great frontier region

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Yasak

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Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from native peoples of Siberia, most often it was furs

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Zunghars

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Western Mongol group that created a substantial state

Question 21

Firestick farming

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A manipulation of thier environment by the Paleolithic people of Australia