V2 Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Caravel

a fifteenth-century Portuguese sailing ship

Factory

In the context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a trading post with offices and warehouses.

Hangul

The Korean alphabet, introduced by King Sejong in 1446.

Joint stock company

a company in which numerous merchants pooled their money to fund a business vernture like a trading voyage and shared both risk and profit.

Sikhism

A monotheistic faith that combines elements of hinduism and islam, established in the Punjab region of northwestern India in the fifteenth century.

Silhak

A late seventeenth-century Korean reform movement that promoted the study of physical sciences and technology in order to solve practical problems.

Sufi

an Islamic mystic; practitioner of Sufism, the mystical expression of Islamic faith.

trade diaspora community

Society established by merchants who initially traveled to a foreign country to do business and then settled here.

Undang-Undang Laut Melaka

A Malaccan maritime law code, part of the Undang-Undang Melaka, governing the conduct of sailors and traveling merchants.