Chapters 14 and 15 Flashcards
refers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas and among other areas around the globe
African Diaspora
a French-speaking West African nation, is a birthplace of the vodun (or “voodoo”) religion and home to the former Dahomey Kingdom from circa 1600–1900.
Benin
1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies.
British and Dutch East India Companies
an African kingdom that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire
Dahomey
the massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the indian ocean (including e. africa, india, and se asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intruding beginning around 1500
indian ocean commercial network
city that developed high in the andes (in present day bolivia) at the site of the world’s largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the americas, with the population of some 16,000 in the 1750s
Potosi
term often used to describe the siphoning of money from europe to pay for the luxury products of the east, a process exacerbated by the fact that europe had few trade goods that were desirable in e markets; eventually the bulk of the world’s silver supply made its way to china
silver drain
Term used to describe the furs in the fur trade. Since they were so valuable
soft gold
Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subjected peoples.
trading post empires
he Spanish assumed control over the Philippine Islands almost without bloodshed primarily because the local population consisted of militarily weak societies and no other country was competing for them./ Over the next century of so, the Philippine Islands became a colony of Spain and remained so until coming under the rule of the US after the Spanish-American War.
Spanish Philippines
was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
The Protestant Reformation
was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty years war
Catholic Counter reformation
French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election
marquis de condorcet
Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe
nicolaus copernicus
The missionary efforts and other work of the Society of Jesus
jesuits in china
