Names/Peoples
The Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
The vast and diverse geographical trade network enabled by monsoons, shipbuilding, and technology
Indian Ocean Commercial Network
Event that brought diseases from Europe to the Americas, caused a mass decrease in population (90%)
The Great Dying
Islands taken over by the Spanish, claimed by Ferdinand Magellan.
Philippines
Black women in marriages with European men, goal was to gain wealth and power
Signares
Multiracial population; initially the product of unions between Spanish men and Native American women
Mestizos
The network of communication, migration, trade, and disease generated by European colonial empires
Columbian Exchange
The event that caused unusually cool temperatures that spanned prominently in the Northern Hemisphere
The Little Ice Age
(Was) the world's largest silver mine, now in Bolivia
Potosi
Chinese scholars' approach to studying the natural world, emphasized evidence and analysis
Kaozheng
The dispersal of African people largely due to the slave trade, resulting in a substantial African presence worldwide.
African Diaspora
The standard Spanish coin used by merchants globally for exchange
Piece of Eight
Widespread conflict, instability, and hardship across Europe and the world, marked by major wars, economic upheaval, social revolts, famine, and climate challenges, impacted states and societies
The General Crisis
Capital of the Philippines and a key part of the global trade network
Manila
The Native American uprising against Spanish colonizers, drove Spanish out of present-day New Mexico
Pueblo Revolt
The product of European-African unions
Mulattoes
Fortified commercial factories in Asia used to control lucrative trade routes (initially for spices, but expanded to textiles and tea)
The British/Dutch East India Companies
The flow of silver from the Americas (Potosi to America)
West African kingdom whose strong kings for a time sharply limited engagement with the slave trade
Benin
The idea that a nation's wealth and power are increased by maximizing exports and minimizing imports
Mercantilism
Free communities of formerly enslaved people in remote regions of South America and the Caribbean, the largest of these was in Brazil (give name)
Maroon Societies/Palmares
A brutal process that involved the capture, separation, selling, and torture of African people for forced labor on plantations
Transatlantic Slave Trade
The vast intellectual and cultural transformation that relied on authority from knowledge rather than religion.
Scientific Revolution
West African kingdom in which the slave trade became a major state-controlled industry
Dahomey
Imperial territories in which Europeans settled permanently in substantial numbers, focused on replacing Indigenous peoples with a colonizing population through the seizure of land and resources.
Settler Colonies