Chapter 14 Vocab

Question 0

Aurangzeb

Answer 0

Mughal emperor who reversed his processors’ policies of religious tolerance

Question 1

Akbar

Answer 1

Famous emperor of India’s Mughal empire

Question 2

Colombian exchange

Answer 2

Massive transatlantic interaction between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia

Question 3

Creoles

Answer 3

Spaniards born in the Americas

Question 4

Fixed winds

Answer 4

The prevailing winds of the Atlantic

Question 5

The “great dying”

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Mercantilism

Answer 6

An economic theory that argues that governments best serve their states’ economic interests

Question 7

Plantation complex

Answer 7

Agricultural system based on African slavery used in Brazil and other places

Question 8

Qing dynasty

Answer 8

1644-1912 originally from Manchuria

Question 9

Settler colonies

Answer 9

Colonies where people settled in large numbers

Question 10

Siberia

Answer 10

Russia’s great frontier region

Question 11

Zunghars

Answer 11

Western Mongol group that created a substantial state