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Diaspora
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Dispersal/mass-movement of a group of people.
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Factories
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European trading fortresses + compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading emp. to assure secure landing places and commerce. Built on the coast with the consent of local rulers
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The Atlantic Slave Trade (1450's-1850's)
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-Estimated 12 million slaves in the slave trade.
-Estimated mortality rate = 10-20% -Cut Africa's population by 50% -As a country's power grew, so did their power in the slave trade. (Portuguese --> Spanish --> Dutch) |
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The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
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-Before the Atlantic Slave trade across the Sahara Desert (Pre-European).
-Ran by the Berbers in the Sahel. -Largely women sold into Arab Harems or as house slaves. People able to buy their way out; were treated better. |
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Middle Passage
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The voyage crossing the Atlantic from Africa to America.
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The Great Trek
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Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of Southern Africa to escape influence of British colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of Orange River and Natal.
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Miscegenation
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Mixing of races.
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Janissaries
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Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated Ottoman armies; forcibly conscripted as boys in conquered ares of Balkans, legally slaves; translated military service into political influence, particularly after the 15th century.
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Battle of Lepanto in 1571
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A battle between Spain and the Ottomans over the Mediterranean Sea. Shows Spain's supremacy and the Ottoman's decline in power in the Mediterranean.
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The Safavid Empire
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The Shi'a's largest empire; nomadic warrior tribes from the Turkic group.
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Chaldiran
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Site of battle between Safavids and Ottomans in 1514; Safavids severely defeated by the Ottomans; checked western advance of the Safavid empire, and Eastern advance of the Ottomans.
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Arabesque
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Geometric forms of plant and animal life.
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Vizier
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Ottoman equivalent of the Abbasid wazir; head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after 15th century often more powerful than sultan.
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Mfecane
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Wars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka Zulu; revolutionized political organization of Southern Africa.
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Boers and Afrikaners
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Descendants of Dutch settlers in Southern Africa.
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The Asante Empire
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Develop along the Gold Coast; heavily contribute to slave trade because of European weapons.
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Brahmins
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The priests who made up the highest class in the Indian caste system.
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Nagasaki Bay
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The bay in Japan traders were limited to to cut off foreign influence with Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early 1600's.
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School of National Learning
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New ideology that stressed Japan's unique history and de-emphasized Chinese influence. Indigenous culture more important than anything else.
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Asian Sea Trading Network
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The trade network that connected Africa, Europe and Asia together and facilitated the exchange of goods, culture, technology, ideas, art, and architecture.
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Java
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The island where the Dutch set up the tribute system.
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Philippenes
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The islands in which the Spanish set up the tribute system.
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The Tribute Sytem
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A system in which defeated people were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and/or labor.
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Jesuits
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Catholic missionaries as a result of the Catholic Reformation and fundamentalist revival in the Catholic Church (also a result of the Catholic reformation).
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Untouchables
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The lowest people in the Indian caste system. Francis Xavier ministered to them and converted tens of thousands to the Christian faith.
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