Africa
Under this system of trade, from roughly 1450- the 1800s, around 16 million people were shipped in captivity to the Americas and the Caribbean.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This was the first dynasty that attempted to re-establish native Chinese traditions after Mongol rule in China.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
In this economic system, private companies and individuals own the land, equipment, buildings, and raw materials needed for production. Private parties also hire workers and decide for themselves what to produce: economic decisions are the responsibility of business people, not governments.
What is capitalism?
This means the ability to domesticate plants and animals. It enables a society to create and keep a surplus of food, and it also leads to greater specialization.
What is agriculture?
Thomas Gage was convinced that there were great health benefits to this food/drink, which originated in the Americas.
What is chocolate?
This conflict began as the most effective and successful slave revolt in history. It was also a colony breaking away from its imperial oppressor (but white and criollo leaders in other colonies in the Americas were terrified rather than inspired).
What is the Haitian Revolution?
For centuries, this is how the Chinese government determined which applicants were qualified for government jobs. It awarded merit rather than nobility, landownership, or other markers of status.
This governing philosophy states that a king or queen has a "divine right" to rule, so commoners or even lords and nobles should have little to no authority.
What is absolutism or absolute monarchy?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Many diseases spread from AfroEurasia to the Americas, but this disease went the other direction, spreading from the Americas especially to Europe.
What is syphilis?
Under this system of labor, a person worked without pay for a limited term (often 4-7 years). Poor Europeans sometimes agreed to work under these conditions in exchange for passage across the Atlantic Ocean to a colony in the Americas.
What is indentured labor or indentured servitude?
This was the most influential philosophy in China through the twentieth century. Its principles were practical rather than spiritual or metaphysical.
What is Confucianism?
This joint stock company, started by the Dutch, was the wealthiest and most successful joint stock company in the 1600s and 1700s.
What is the United East India Company OR the Dutch East India Company?
This was a brutal system of labor, similar to feudalism, that the Spanish imposed on their territories in the Americas and the Caribbean. A monarch would give a Spanish leader control over land and any indigenous people on that land.
What is encomienda?
This location in Kansas is named after the first European to arrive there.
What is Coronado Heights?
This was the name given to the miserable journey of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean. Due to disease and brutal mistreatment, sometimes as many as a quarter of enslaved people died during the voyage.
What is the "middle passage"?
This Ming emperor supported far-reaching voyages of exploration and trade.
Who is Yongle?
This French king reduced the power of the nobility to mostly symbolic roles and centralized power, making himself an "absolute monarch."
Who is Louis XIV?
This is the term for the continuing transfer of plants, animals, and germs that began after the first contact between the Spanish and the Americas in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This West African kingdom rose to power during the height of the Atlantic Slave Trade by developing and supporting a warrior elite and frequently raiding and conquering neighboring nations in order to capture slaves to sell.
What is the Dahomey kingdom OR Dahomey empire?
This Kongolese Christian reformer started a movement called Antonianism. She fought for the rights of the poor and also spoke out against foreign influence.
Who is Dona Beatriz OR who is Kimpa Vita?
This dynasty was originally Manchu, but they ruled over China and allied with ethnic Chinese factions to gain and maintain control of it.
What is the Qing dynasty?
This treaty ended the Thirty Years' War and recognized European nations as sovereign and independent. It also established a balance of power among the European nations.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This Mesoamerican city state was a republic. They resented Aztec efforts to subjugate them, and so they allied with the Spanish to oppose them.
What is Tlaxcala?
This European kingdom made occasional slave raids into Africa. At first, it set up a trading relationship with the Kingdom of Kongo, but later fought a war against them.
What is Portugal?