| A | B |
| (AFRICAN) SLAVE TRADE | the business of trading in slaves, especially the transportation of Black Africans to America from the 16th to 19th centuries |
| BILL OF RIGHTS | first ten amendments to the Constitution ratified in 1791 |
| CAPITALISM | A system of distributing wealth, where Supply and Demand decides who gets what and how much they get |
| CASH CROPS | product grown to be sold for export |
| CHANGE | to cause to be different |
| CITIZENSHIP | the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, or national community |
| COLONIALISM | The practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically |
| COLONY | group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land |
| COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE | the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the eastern and western hemispheres |
| COMMAND ECONOMY | an economy in which the government makes the decisions about what, where, how, and how much is produced and finally who will get what is produced |
| BYZANTIUM | former name of Constantinople |
| OTTOMAN EMPIRE | - covered parts of Asia, Europe and Africa; Constantinople was its capital, later renamed Istanbul |
| MUGHAL EMPIRE | most of India and Pakistan in the 16th and 17th centuries |
| ROANOKE, NORTH CAROLINA | late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement |
| JAMESTOWN | the first permanent English settlement (1607) in the Americas |
| PLYMOUTH | the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims |
| MAYANS | A Mesoamerican civilization of Central America and southern Mexico |
| INCA | A Mesoamerican civilization of South America, centered in Peru |
| AZTECS | A Mesoamerican civilization of Mexico who created a strong empire that flourished between the 14th and 15th century |
| LIVINGSTONE | Protestant missionary martyr, scientific investigator and explorer of Africa, |