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Spanish conquerors of the Americas.

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Conquistadors

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The right to use native Americans as slaves.

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Encomienda

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Settlement in a new territory linked to a parent country.

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Colony

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Economic theory of the seventeenth century.

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Mercantilism

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Difference in value between imports and exports over time.

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Balance of trade.

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European expansion was driven by all of the following _____.

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Wealth and trade, religious zeal, and political ambition.

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Portugal maintained a colonial or trade interest in all of the following _____.

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South America, West Africa, and India.

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The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 gave Spain control of almost all of _____.

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The Americas.

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The Aztec rulers of Mexico fought against the forces of which Spanish warrior?

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Hernan Cortes

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The English established colonies or trade relations in all of the following locations _____.

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Massachusetts, New York, and northwestern India.

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The Pattern of trade connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

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Triangular trade.

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The journey of slaves from Africa to America.

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Middle Passage

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Large agricultural estates.

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Plantations

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Crop introduced to Europe from Southwest Asia.

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Sugarcane

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Gold Coast state.

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Ashanti

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Traditional African political systems were mainly _____.

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Purely tribal clans.

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All of the following were impacts of the slave trade on African societies _____.

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Increased warfare, depopulation of some areas, and deterioration of art and culture.

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The African empire of Songhai was devastated by invaders from _____.

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Morocco

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New religious influences in North and West Africa came from _____.

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Islam

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Slaves from Africa were obtained by Europeans from _____.

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African slave merchants.

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The Spice Islands.

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The Moluccas

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Islamic sultanate in the Malay Peninsula.

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Melaka

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Portion of Southeast Asia comprised of Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

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Mainland States

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Dominant new religion from Burma to Vietnam.

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Buddhism

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Body of nonelective government officials.

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Bureaucracy

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In the Malay Peninsula and small coastal states of Southeast Asia, the head of state was frequently _____.

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An Islamic sultan.

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In the Buddhist style of kingship, the king was considered the _____.

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Link between humans and the universe.

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European influence in Southeast Asia was stronger in the Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago because _____.

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These states did not have strong, central monarchies.

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The island of Java became a strategic center for the _____.

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Dutch.

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The Portuguese presence in Southeast Asia was limited to _____.

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Trading posts.

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Southern coast of West Africa.

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Gold Coast.

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Established a line of demarcation between Spanish and Portuguese territories.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Venetian seaman who explored the coastline of New England.

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John Cabot

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The right of Spanish settlers to use Native Americans as laborers.

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Encomienda

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The journey of slaves from Africa to America.

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Middle Passage

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King of Congo.

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Afonso

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African society that was ruined because of the slave trade.

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Benin

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English influence on the spice market was reduced to a single port located here.

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Sumatra

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Dutch established a fort here in 1619.

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Java

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Extremely profitable trade item from Southeast Asia.

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Spice

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Vasco da Gama's discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be _____.

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Very profitable, since da Gama returned with a cargo of spices and made a profit of several thousand percent.

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_____ went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the Americas.

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Christopher Columbus

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What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century?

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Mercantilism

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Who were the first European settlers of the Hudson River valley?

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The Dutch.

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The _____ society of eastern Nigeria produced more slaves than practically any other in the continent.

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Ibo

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Originally, African slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the _____.

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Sugarcane plantations.

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The Moluccas were known to Europeans as the _____.

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Spice Islands

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In Southeast Asia, European influence _____.

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Was mostly limited to the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago.

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_____ became the dominant religion on the Southeast Asian mainland from 1500 to 1800.

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Buddhism

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The Dutch tried to dominate the clove trade by _____.

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Limiting cultivation of the crop to one island and forcing others to stop the growing and trade of the spice.

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Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India.

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Vasco de Gama

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Discovered the Americas.

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Christopher Columbus

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Wrote many letters describing his voyages to the New World.

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Amerigo Vespucci

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The English seized it and renamed it New York.

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New Netherlands

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The pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa and Asia, and the American continents.

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Triangular trade.

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This society produced more slaves than practically any other on the African continent.

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Ibo

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Known to Europeans as the Spice Islands.

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Moluccas

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African slaves supplied labor for them.

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Sugarcane plantations.

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Controlled Spice Islands until driven out by the Dutch.

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Portuguese

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Formed the East India Company and West India Company.

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Dutch

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To Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of West Africa became known as the _____.

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Gold Coast

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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494.

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Established a line of demarcation between territories controlled by Portugal and those controlled by Spain.

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_____ explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England.

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John Cabot

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According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a nation depended on _____.

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A large supply of bullion, or gold and silver.

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What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America?

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The Middle Passage.

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The African society of _____ was changed from a brilliant society to a corrupt and brutal place by the slave trade.

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Benin

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Aggressive Dutch traders were able to _____.

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Reduce the English influence on the spice market to a single port on the southern coast of Sumatra.

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European rulers and merchants were determined to gain control of the islands of Southeast Asia because _____.

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The spice trade there was enormously profitable.

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Europeans had less impact on the mainland states of Southeast Asia because _____.

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The mainland states were able to unite and drive the Europeans out.

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The _____ is the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time.

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Balance of trade.

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