West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.
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Ming dynasty
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Qing dynasty
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Tokugawa shogunate
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African Diaspora
Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.
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Akbar
The most famous emperor of India's Mughal Empire (r. 1556-1605); his policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion.
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Aurangzeb
Mughal emperor (r. 1658-1707) who reversed his predecessors' policies of religious tolerance and attempted to impose Islamic supremacy.
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Benin
West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.
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Bhakti
Hindu devotional movement that flourished in the early modern era, emphasizing music, dance, poetry, and rituals as means by which to achieve direct union with the divine.
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cartaz
A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean.
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Catholic Counter-Reformation
An internal reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century; thanks especially to the work of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic leaders clarified doctrine, corrected abuses and corruption, and put a new emphasis on education and accountability.
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Columbian exchange
The massive transatlantic interaction and exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia that began in the period of European exploration and colonization.
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conquistadores
Spanish conquerors of the Native American lands, most notably the Aztec and Inca empires.
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Council of Trent
The main instrument of the Catholic Counter- Reformation (1545-1563), at which the Catholic Church clarified doctrine and corrected abuses
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creoles
Spaniards born in the Americas.
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Dahomey
West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.
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Daimyo
Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors.
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Darwin, Charles
Highly influential English biologist (1809-1882) whose theory of natural selection continues to be seen by many as a threat to revealed religious truth.
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deism
Belief in a divine being who created the cosmos but who does not intervene directly in human affairs.
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devshirme
The tribute of boy children that the Ottoman Turks levied from their Christian subjects in the Balkans; the Ottomans raised the boys for service in the civil administration or in the elite Janissary infantry corps.
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Edict of Nantes
Issued by French king Henry IV that granted considerable religious toleration to French Protestants and ended the French Wars of Religion.
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European Enlightenment
European intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applied the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open-mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society.
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Freud, Sigmund
Austrian doctor and the father of modern psychoanalysis (1856-1939); his theories about the operation of the human mind and emotions remain influential today
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Galilei, Galileo
Italian astronomer (1564-1642) who further developed the ideas of Copernicus and whose work was eventually suppressed by the Catholic Church.
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Huguenots
The Protestant minority in France.
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Jesuits in China
Series of missionaries in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, inspired by the work of Matteo Ricci, made extraordinary efforts to understand and become a part of Chinese culture in their efforts to convert the Chinese elite, although with limited success.
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Little Ice Age
A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era.
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Luther, Martin
German priest and theologian (1483-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation movement in Europe
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Manila
Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600.
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Marx, Karl
German philosopher (1818-1883) whose view of human history as a class struggle formed the basis of socialism.
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mestizo
Literally, "mixed"; a term used to describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas.