Unit 6
the corporation that essentially ruled India for 150 years
British East India Company
having originated in or occurring naturally in a particular place (for example: the Sword Fern is an _______ plant to the PNW)
Indigenous
"One who serves" in Japanese. The feudal Japanese equivalent of a knight.
Samurai
A person of mixed Native American and Spanish heritage
Mestizo
French General who basically fought all of Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Islamic Dynasty that ruled India from the 1500s to the late 1700s
Mughal Dynasty
a group or entity that is licensed to do business.
Corporation
Tribute System
A labor system where Spanish colonizers forced indigenous Americans to work in exchange for religious conversion.
Encomienda
A certificate of part ownership in a corporation
Stock
An agricultural product that is grown en masse to create wealth for farmers and merchants (ex: Cotton in India)
Cash Crop
A club or association of people with common interest. Often created by workers to address issues
Union
The divine belief that a Dynasty in China was meant to rule.
Mandate of Heaven
The combination of different religions and cultural traditions to create some new distinct culture
Syncretism
The "Father of Capitalism" and author o the wealth of nations
Adam Smith
an Indian Soldier working in the employ of the British East India Company
Sepoy
The policy adopted by Japan once the Edo period began of closing the country off to the outside world
Isolationism
An economic system where European countries extracted raw materials from colonies, turned those materials into manufactured products, and then sold those products back to the colonies
Mercantilism
The process of people leaving rural areas and moving to cities (occurred in Europe in the 1800s)
Urbanization
The Economic Model of Capitalism proposed by Adam Smith where a government does not interfere in corporate affairs and lets the free market sort things out.
Laissez-Faire
Bureaucracy
a system of organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
hierarchy
The act of treating someone unfairly to benefit from their work. OR treating a resource unfairly to benefit from it
Exploitation
Constitutional Monarchy