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Ch 14-16 Vocab Flashcards

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Indian Ocean commercial network

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Network discovered by Europeans desire for tropical spices. Payed gold or silver for goods

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Trading post empire

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A strategically placed empire/colony as a trading post

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Philippines

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Takeover and colonial establishment of islands near Spain

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British east India company

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Displaced the Portuguese, both militarily and economically stronger, focused on textiles

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Tokugawa shogunate

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Supreme military rulers who closed off trading with Europe

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“Silver drain”

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Silver deposits in Spanish America and central Asia, a tax was placed on it

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Potosi

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Large city that exists because of silver deposits

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“Soft gold”

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A nickname for the fur trade that nearly eradicated the deer population in Europe

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African diaspora

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The transatlantic “spread” of African people (slave trade)

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Benin/Dahomey

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African communities that took advantage of the slave trade commercially

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Protestant reformation

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The religious movement that attempted to reform the Catholic Church, giving rise to Protestantism

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Catholic counter reformation

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The response to the protestants and an attempt to reform itself

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Taki Onqoy

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A religious revival in Peru to destroy Christianity and renew the Andean golden age

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Jesuits in China

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The recorders of the success of the Qing government

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Wahhabi Islam

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Major Islamic movement that pushed for a stricter adherence to Islamic law

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Wang yangmin

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Chinese philosopher who argued for education in Confucianism

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Kaozheng

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Chinese movement where officials emphasized the importance on evidence and analysis

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Mirabai

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16th century poet who shook the idea of female roles by being more devoted to god

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Sikhism

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The doctrines of a religion combining both Hinduism and Islam

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Copernicus

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Polish astronomer who designed the first solar system with the sun in the center

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Newton

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English mathematician and physicist

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European enlightenment

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Scientific success could be credited to reason

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Voltaire

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Greatest enlightenment thinker, embodies the centuries ideas

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Condorcet and the idea of progress

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French philosopher who argued that society was to cure itself of slavery, racism, tyranny, etc by reason

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The great dying

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The pandemic of old world diseases brought by the Colombian exchange that killed 90% of Native Americans

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Colombian exchange

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A global exchange of goods that brought a commercial revolution

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Peninsulares

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Highest social class made of Spanish born immigrants

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Mestizo

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A person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage

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Mulattos

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African/European citizens who were denied basic rights

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Plantation complex

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Agricultural systems based on slavery

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Settler colonies

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Colonies where minority Europeans lived among majority native Americans

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Siberia

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A region of centers Russia covered in ice

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Yasak

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Tax the Russian rulers demanded from the people of Siberia

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Qing dynasty

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1644-1912 expanded the Chinese territory north, assimilated other cultures resulting in a mixed race

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Mughal empire

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Muslim state that ruled India in the 16-17th centuries

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Akbar

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Sultan (ruler) of the Mughals, showed religious tolerance

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Aurangzeb

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Mughal emperor who established strict law that lead to its downfall

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Ottoman Empire

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Islamic state that encompassed most of the west after the Byzantine

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Constantinople 1453

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The fall of Constantinople to the ottomans

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Devshirme

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Taking boys from Christian communities and training them in the ottoman military

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