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The Great Dying
Moment when Europeans brought diseases such as smallpox and measles to Americas
Columbian Exchange
Exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and people between the New World and the Old world
Peninsulares
Spaniards living in the Spanish colonies who were born in Spain
Mestizo
Person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry
Mulatto
Person of white and black mixed ancestry
Maroon Societies
People who are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery and formed their own settlements
Settler colonialism
System of colonization where indigenous population is killed or replaced by foreigners moving and settling in new land
Trading post empire
System of colonization where foreign power uses coastal cities and military posts to force open control of trade networks
Mercantilism
Economic system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with specific emphasis on exports
Missionary
Person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country
Potosi
Site of a massive silver mine and base of operations for Spanish Empire located in modern day Bolivia
Taino
Historic indigenous people of the Caribbean
Devshirme
Ottoman practice of forcibly recruiting soldiers and bureaucrats from among the children of their Balkan Christian subjects
Janissary
Member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan’s troops, often European Christians
Chattel Slavery
The legal ownership of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work
Inflation
A decrease in the purchasing power of money, reflected in a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy
Dutch East India Company
Private corporation in the 17th and 18th century with a near monopoly on Spice trade in Europe and Asia
Tokugawa Shogunate
Feudal military government of Japan during the Edo period from the 17th-19th century
Siberia
An extensive region in modern day Russia in Northern and Eastern Asia
Cossacks
Group from modern-day Ukraine that, in part, served as a mounted paramilitary police force in all of the various provinces of the Russian Empire
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