World History (Chapter 14) The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia – Flashcards

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cartographer
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mapmaker
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Line of Demarcation
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divided the non-European world into two zones--one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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treaty that divided the non-European world among Spain and Portugal
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circumnavigate
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to travel completely around the world
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plantation
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large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there
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missionary
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someone sent to promote religious conversion in a territory or foreign country
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Oyo empire
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Yoruba empire that arose in the 1600s in present-day Nigeria and dominated its neighbors for 100 years
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Boers
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Dutch people who settled in Cape Town, Africa
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Mughal Empire
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Muslim empire that rule most of northern India from mid-1500s to the mid-1700s
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Goa
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a state in western India
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Malacca
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a state and coastal city in SW Malaysia; an early center of the spice trade
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outpost
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a distant military station or a remote settlement
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Dutch East India Company
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a trading company established by the Netherlands to protect and expand its trade in Asia
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sovereign
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having full independent power
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sepoys
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Indian soldiers who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies
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Manchus
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people from Manchuria who ruled China as the Qing dnyasty
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Qing dynasty
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dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid 1600s that lasted until the early 1900s; China's last dynasty (Picture: royal gold seal of the Qing dynasty
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Moluccas
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a group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500s and 1600s
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