Land Based Empires
The New World
Three G's
The East Indies
Maritime Empires
100

This Mulsim empire, centered in Anatolia, used gunpowder artillery to conquer Constantinople in 1453.

The Ottoman Turks

100

The effect on indigenous populations of the Americas as a result of the Columbian Exchange. 

Great Dying/Smallpox/Disease 

100

The most lucrative cash crop grown throughout the South America and the Carribean by Europeans. 

Sugarcane

100

This triangular sail allowed sailors to tack against the wind.

Lateen sail

100
Portugal established this type of empire around the Indian Ocean 

Trading Post Empire

200

This Mughal ruler expanded the empire, abolished the jizya tax on non-Muslims, and promoted religious tolerance.

Akbar the Great

200

This Old World domesticated animal transformed Indigenous societies in the New World, especially North America.

The horse

200

Catholic order most responsible for spreading the faith around the world. 

Jesuit Missionaries

200
This was the single-most desired commodity from the  South and South East Asian spice trade.

Peppercorn 

200

This economic policy encouraged colonies to provide raw materials, and emphasized exporting more than importing. 

Mercantilism

300

This elite Ottoman military force was made up of boys taken through the devshirme system

The Janissary Corps

300

Established by the Spanish, this social heirarchy was enforced throughout New Spain.

Casta System

300

English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese voyages during the period 1450-1750 were all similiar in goal in that they: 

Searched for a new route/access to Asia

300

After the Portuguese, a monopoly on the Indian Ocean spice trade would eventually be held by... 

Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC)

300
The British and the Dutch established THESE to enforce monopolies on trade goods in both the East and West Indies.

Joint Stock Companies

400

This was the mandated social custom forced on Han Chinese men by the Ming Dynasty. 

Wearing the Queue (hairstyle)

400
Land grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in the New World that gave the the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indigenous inhabitants of the area. 

The Encomienda System 

400

This was the alternate route to Asia that the British and French searched for

Northwest Passage

400

The Phillipines were named by this influential explorer who would be killed on these island shores

Ferdinand Magellan

400

This agreement split the world into two separate zones to be conquered/colonized by Spain and Portugal.

Treaty of Tordesillas

500
A popular policy from Russia's ruler Peter the Great, this emphasized adoption of more European style culture, politics, economics, etc. 

Westernization

500

These were escaped African slaves who formed remote communities free from European control in the Carribean. 

Maroons

500

The name (location) of the single biggest silver mine in history. 

Potosi 

500

This policy would see Japan etirely close itself off from outside interactions. 

Sakoku ('Closed Country') 

500

These large, multidecked ships were first designed as cargo haulers by the Spanish. 

Galleons
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