Ap world real exam key terms

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Trading Post Empire

Started by Portuguese; monopolize spice trade

Bureaucracy

The institutions that help a ruler run an empire such as tax collectors, soldiers, and civil servants.

Legitimacy

How did rulers make subjects loyal? Religion and art/architecture

Chattel Slavery

System in which laborers are bought and sold

Cultural Diffusion

The spread of culture via trade and warfare

Mercantilism

State sponsored economic system with high government involvement and a desire for gold and silver 

Vodun

Syncretic religion in the Americas practiced in Haiti 

Encomienda System

Coerced labor system in the Americas 

Monopoly

When one person/government/company controls an entire economic process. Think Amazon. 

Polygyny

Having more than one spouse 

Viceroy

Spanish colonial administrator in the America

Serf

Slave in Europe and Asia 

Indentured Servant

Employers pays for journey to new location; 
need to work off debt 

Zionism

Desire for Jewish Homeland 

Filial Piety

Family relationships in Confucianism 

Suffrage

The right to vote 

Disenfranchise

Take away the right to vote

Divine Right

Kings believed their power came from God

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Slave Revolt in Haiti 

Tupac Amaru

Peruvian leader; led rebellion against Spanish 

Simon Bolivar

Latin America revolutions; united Bolivia 

John Locke

Enlightened philosopher; Natural Rights 

Mary Wollstonecraft

Enlightened philosopher; Women's education 

Adam Smith

Enlightened economic philosopher; capitalism; laissez-faire 

Genghis Khan

Mongol Leader; unites Mongol empire 

Karl Marx

Founder of socialism/communism; reaction to capitalism 

John Maynard Keynes

20th century economist; rejects laissez faire