A | B |
Manila | Spanish port in the Philippines where lots of trad with Asia happened |
Mercantilism | economic theory where there are a fixed amount of goods or wealth. Countries needed to protect their markets and goods. Created lots of gov interference in the economy and lots of competition between countries. |
trading companies | they had rights to set up trade abroad -rights of their own military and to even create treaties |
galleon | spanish ship that transported much of the newly mined silver-was part military vessel too |
charter company | granted monopoly rights by states to establish trade abroad |
Columbian Exchange | Two way exchange of people, goods, food, and disease |
potato and corn | popular foods that were grown in the "old world" that came from the new world |
plantations | cash crops were grown here like sugar, cotton, tabacco etc. |
potosi | great mine in the americas where lots of silver was extracted |
1/5 | of all silver was taken by the crown as a tax |
pirates | lots of these people were ready to take advantage of smuggling in the Americas |
Rio de la Plata | river of silver in south America |
demography | population |
Cottage Industry | developed at tons of raw materials were coming in from the Americas-in between before the Industrial Revolution. People would take on extra work in their homes. |
inflation | created by the influx of silver-worth of silver went down as goods increased their price |
price revolution | period of inflation in the 16th century in Europe |
serfdom | in Russia-state gave boyars more rights over people who lived and worked on their lands |
Rulers of Spain and Holy Roman Empire | Habsburgs |
Spanish Armada | 1588 King Philip II sent to invaded England because Queen Elizabeth turned him down (marriage-he was married to her sister after all) |
30 Years War | 1618-1648 -conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Holy Roman Empire. Ended with Protestant winning |
Peace of Augsburg | 1555 -HRE-follow the religion of your ruler and if not happy then move |
Peace of Westphalia | Ended 30 Years War -power of Holy Roman Emperor fell |
Ming dynasty | 1368-1644 -dynasty of China that renewed itself after Mongol rule |
Zhenghe | Great Ming dipolmat-Muslim, admiral, eunuch who voyaged around the Indian Ocean with the greatest fleet in the world. |
Single Whip Reforms | Ming China began to collect taxes once a year in silver-shows the influx of silver into China |
Silver sinkhole | China |
Tokuguawa Japan | silver mines opneed up -but became isolated by 1614 |
Java | Dutch eventually took over this island and grew coffee on it |
Mughal Empire | India-began to fall and local nawabs rose to power. the English worked with the make in roads into Indian textile markets |
cotton | important export of India |
gun slave cycle | traded manufactured goods like guns for slaves to take to the Americas and work |
indentured servidtuted | type of social bondage- paid for passage to the new world, but were forced to work for a set amount of time to work off that fee (5-7 years) |
privateers | professional pirates hired by countries to sink and steal |
tariff | taxes to restrict markets |
African slavery | used to meet labor demands in the Americas since so many Native died |
7 | average life span of slaves in tropical plantations |
Middle Passage | journey from the coast to the New World across the Atlantic -10-15% of people died |
maroon society | Africans that had independent societies in the Americas-they fought and resisted: Jamiaca and Suriname -later Haiti, |