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Empires that were established through trade and dominating oceanic trade routes
What are Maritime Empires?
Originating in the Americas, a system that requires people to partake in labor that ranges from mining to farming terraces.
What is the Mit'a System?
What is Mercantilism?
Christians that were captured and forced into military services by the Ottoman Empire.
What are Janissaries?
The belief that made kings have absolute power because they are believed to be connected to god.
What is the Divine right of Kings?
Originating from the Aztecs, they are known as the "floating gardens".
What are Chinampas?
The people that helped make the Qing Dynasty.
Who are the Manchu?
A powerful lord in Japan that controlled land and sometimes armies.
What is a Daimyo?
An ethical and philosophical belief that centers on the worth of a human and not on supernatural beings.
What is Humanism?
A language that was created through mix of arabic and Persian used most commonly in muslims.
What is Urdu?
A creation by people in China that allows maritime trade be more efficiently connected across Chinese empires.
What is the Grand Canal?
A tool designed for maritime trade that helps with navigation and timekeeping.
What is the Astrolabe?
A principle made that stated the everyone was subject to law.
What is Magna Carta?
The bias and prejudice against jewish people.
What is Antisemitism?
People that had the biggest empire in the world and controlled the Silk Road.
Who are the Mongols?
A system in which Spanish people were given some native Americans to extract resources from and in exchange they had to protect the Indians.
What is the Encomienda System?
What are Joint Stock Companies?
A trade route that allowed africans to get to the Americas:also a part of the triangular slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
One of the top members of the Japanese caste system that held political power and was one of the highest members in the military.
What is a Samurai?
A monotheistic religion that focused on equality, social justice, community service, and most importantly rejected the caste system.
What is Sikhism?
A syncretic religion that mixes a variety as religions but more primarily Yoruba and catholicism.
What is Santeria?
An English company formed for the exploitation of trade with east/Southeast Asia and India.
What is the East India Company?
The last imperial dynasty in Russia. More specifically the westernization of Russia under Peter the Great.
What is the Romanov Dynasty?
Caribbean syncretic religion that mixed west African beliefs and Roman Catholicism. This religion focused on a connection with ancestors and nature.
What is Vodun (Voodoo)?