Originally chartered as the Governer and Company of merchants of London trading into the East Indies; later British joint-stock company formed pursuing trade with the East Indies.
What is British East India Company
100
Muslim empire; direct descendants of Genghis Khan; was an imperial power in the Indian subcontinent.
What is Mughal
100
A artificially established forest, farm, or estate where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption.
What is Plantation Farming
200
A series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe.
What is Thirty Years War
200
The attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties as in philosophy or religion.
What is Syncretic
200
Native people.
What is Indigenous
200
Indigenous people; a member of a people native to Manchuria who ruled China during the Qing dynasty.
What is Manchus
300
The principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
What is Absolutism
300
Period of European economic expansion, colonialism and mercantilism.
What is Commercial revolution
300
The part of the Atlantic Ocean between the coast of Africa and the West Indies; the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
What is Middle Passage
300
Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet; best known for the work Don Quixote, which is widely considered as the first European novel.
What is Cervantes
300
Regarded as the finest example of Mughal architecture; built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife.
What is Taj Mahal
400
Spanish word for an estate; like a caste system that other countries use.
What is Hacienda System
400
The ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church that met at Trent intermittently from 1545 to 1563, and defined church doctrine and condemned the Reformation.
What is Council of Trent
400
Belonging to a particular people or place.
What is Endemic
400
Chinese explorer who commanded large fleets of ships to different parts of Asia and Africa between 1405 and 1433.
What is Zheng He
400
Built by Louis XIII, was originally a chateau but Louis XIV expanded it.
What is Versailles
500
A landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
What is Zamindar
500
Fate; destiny.
What is Predestination
500
Pertaining to America or the United States.
What is Columbian
500
French clergyman, noble, and statesman.
What is Cardinal Richelieu
500
Was a German kingdom and historic state; shaped the history of Germany with its capital in Berlin after 1451.