World war I Flashcards
ottoman Empire
Oceania, Africa and Asia, conquering territory and opening trade routes. They colonized much of the world for Spain and Portugal in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Jarisarries
a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
sultan
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
sultanate
The commercial balance or net exports (sometimes symbolized as NX), is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period, measured in the currency of that economy. It is the relationship between a nation’s imports and exports.
harem
a device having a magnetic needle that indicates direction on the earth’s surface by pointing toward the north. 2. : an instrument for drawing circles or marking measurements consisting of two pointed legs joined at the top by a pivot —usually used in pl.
aurangzed
a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
shah
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
Maratha kingdom
The Columbian Exchange or Grand Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage.
middle passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
treaty of tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
henry the navigator
Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.
christopher columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.
vasco de gama
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hernan cortes
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico
zheng he
Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China’s early Ming dynasty.
ferdinand magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
spice trade
The spice trade refers to the trade between historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric were known, and used for commerce, in the Eastern World well into antiquity. Opium was also imported.
Ismail Abbas
encomienda. (ānkōmyān`dae) [Dä. span =encomendar to], entrust system of tributory labor established In Spanish. America developed as a means of securing an adequate and cheap labor, supply the encomienda was first used over the Conquered moors Of. spain
sufis
a Dutch trading company founded in 1602 to protect Dutch trading interests in the Indian Ocean. It was dissolved in 1799.
suleyman
a member of a people originally of the Greater Antilles and adjacent South America, now living mainly in Guiana. They were forced out of the Antilles by the more warlike Caribs shortly before Spanish expansion in the Caribbean.
Esmail
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean.
safidon
Fort Jesus (Portuguese: Forte Jesus de Mombaca) mombaça is A portuguese fort built between 1593 and 1596 by order Of King Philip i Of, portugal located On Mombasa island to guard The Old port Of, Mombasa. kenya
kizilbash
The Kingdom of Kongo was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rajputs
A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans
sikh faith
Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric were known, and used for commerce, in the Eastern World well into antiquity. Opium was also imported.
