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Vocab Terms Unit 4 Flashcards

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Primogeniture laws

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only eldest sons could recieve inheritance

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Omani-European rivalry

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trade competition between Europe and Portuguese forts in Oman

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Cartography

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mapmaking

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Astronomical chart

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map of stars and galaxies, used for directions

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Maritime empires

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empires based around sea travel

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Mercantilism

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policies to better sell many goods to gain gold/silver, a measure of wealth

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Trading post empire

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forts along water for trade, establish monopoly

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Manila

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Spanish commercial center, large+successful

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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first European monarch to fun sea expeditions

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Galleons

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heavily armed Spanish ships

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Christopher Columbus

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Spanish; find sea route form India/China to west, caused colonization

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Bartholomew Diaz

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sailed around Cape of Good Hope

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Vasco Da Gama

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Portuguese; open sea route from Europe to China/India caused colonization

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Spanish; wanted to find Asia by sailing west from Europe

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Northwest passage

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route through/around Asia by sailing west from Europe

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Jacques Cartier

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French; claimed Canada for France

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Samuel de Champlain

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French; found resources in Americas

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John Cabot

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went to N. America to find a sea route to East going west from Europe

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Henry Hudson

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Dutch; sailed to Hudson River to find Asia… Dutch claimed river valley and island of Manhattan

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Quebec

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French trading post/town

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New France

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French colony in N. America, 70,000 population

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Jamestown

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first successful English settlement in Americas

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New Amsterdam

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at tip of Manhattan, port town, Dutch

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Smallpox

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disease spread through respiratory system

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Horse

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domesticated animal, useful for riding, Europe to Americas

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Conquistadores

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Spanish soldiers that took over natives for colonization

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Maize

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type of corn, native to Americas

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Cacao

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from Mesoamerica, chocolate

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Okra

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vegetable from Africa to Americas

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Rice

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food from Africa to Americas

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Sugarcane

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in Brazil, helped start slave trade due to lack of workers from disease

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Creole

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language of combined European colonizers

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Gumbo

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modern food in Souther US, roots in African cooking

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Columbian Exchange

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trade of biological things; disease, food, animals

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Transatlantic slave trade

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captured Africans were sold, many to Brazil

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Engenhos

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sugar plantations that could produce copious sugars, means engine in Portuguese

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Cash crop

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crops grown for sale over substience

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African Diaspora

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dispersion fo Africans out of Africa

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Asante Empire

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African state that grew with maritime trading networks

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indentured servitude

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people work for several years in exchange for passage

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chattel slavery

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people considered property

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Kingdom of the Kongo

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African state that grew due to maritime trading networks

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Ming Dynasty

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chinese rulers

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Aztec Empire

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Native American empire

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Inca Empire

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Native American empire

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New Spain

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Spanish colony in Mexico

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Mexico City

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Spanish capital on ruins of Tenochitilán

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Francisco Pizarro

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crew attacked Inca and killed leader

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Atahualpa

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Incan ruler killed by Pizarro

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Split Americas between Portugal and Spain, Spain got Brazil

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Hispanola

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name given to island by Columbus

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conquistadores

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Spanish soldiers that conquered natives

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encomienda

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system to gain access to gold

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encomenderos

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landowners

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coercive labor system

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working for food/shelter

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mit’a system

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Incan, labor obligation, certain hours to service

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MIddle passage

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middle part of captive slaves’ journey

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capital

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money accumilated

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Commercial Revolution

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transformation to trade economy with gold/silver

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Price Revolution

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inflation in 16-17 century

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joint-stock companies

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investors bought shares

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limited liability

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investor not responsible

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East India Company

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joint-stock, British

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Dutch East India Company

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joint-stock, Dutch

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monopoly

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a grant for select people to trade in certain parts

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syncretism

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making of new religion/language

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polygony

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marrying multiple people

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creoles

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people born in americas with Spanish origin

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Santería

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African faith that became popular in N. America

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Vodun

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belief system from Haiti

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Candomblé

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combined African religion

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viceroy

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reps. of Spanish crown

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audiencias

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Spanish royal courts

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Dahomey

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Africans that conducted slave raids

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Oyo

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Africans that conducted slave raids

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Ndongo

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in central Asia

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Matamba

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state Nzinga took over

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Steppe

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flat land w/o trees

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Maratha Empire

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Hindu empire against Mughals

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Ana Nzinga

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ruler of Ndongo

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Yemelyan Pugachev

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began peasant rebellion

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Queen Nanny

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escaped slave, united maroons

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James II

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Catholic king

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William of Orange

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agreed to take over England to become king

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Mary II

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Wife of William of Orange, joint ruler of England

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Mohegan

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native american group

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pequot

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native american group

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wampanoag

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ended war when subjugated to English colonists

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Metacom’s War

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final major effort of natives to get rid of British

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Pugachev Rebellion

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caused increased peasant repression

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Pueblo Revolt

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Natives fought against Spanish

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Maroon wars

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slaves in Caribbean fought for freedom

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Gloucester County Rebellion

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first slave revolt in US

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Glorious Reveloution

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revolution that strengthened Parliment

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Li Chengdong

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organized three massacres

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Liu Liangzuo

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massacred Jiangyin

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Louis XIV

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kept power from peasants

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