Chapter 15 Vocab

Question 0

Manila

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Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a large population by 1600

Question 1

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 1

Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European fleet to circumnavigate the globe

Question 2

Piece of eight

Answer 2

Standard Spanish coin that became a medium of exchange on North America, Europe, India, Russia, and west Africa as well as in the Spanish empire

Question 3

Potosí

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City developed high in the Andes at the sight of the world’s largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas

Question 4

Samurai

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The warrior of elite in medieval Japan

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Shogun

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Japanese supreme military commander

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“Silver drain”

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Term used with “specie drain” to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the east

Question 7

“Soft gold”

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Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it

Question 8

Spanish Philippines

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An archipelago of pacific islands colonized by Spain

Question 9

Tokugawa shogunate

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Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early 17th century

Question 10

Trading post empire

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Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples

Question 11

African diaspora

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Name given to the spread of African people across the Atlantic via the slave trade

Question 12

Banda islands

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Infamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly the entire population of these nutmeg-producing islands was killed or enslaved and replaced with Dutch planters

Question 13

Benin

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West African kingdom (modern day Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade

Question 14

British/Dutch East India companies

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Private trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade

Question 15

Cartaz

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A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean

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Dahomey

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West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers’ exploitation of the slave trade

Question 17

Daimyo

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Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai

Question 18

Hurons

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Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade

Question 19

Indian Ocean commercial network

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The interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean; the network was badly disrupted Portuguese intrusion

Question 20

Little ice age

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A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era