Ap World Chapter 14 Vocab

Form of imperial dominance based in control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples

Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachment

An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization (spread christ); the Spanish named them the Philippine islands in honor of King Philip II of Spain

Nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it.

Term often used, along with "specie drain" to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets;eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China.

City that developed high in the Andes at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s

The massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500.

Sold into slavery in West Africa and transported to work on a plantation in Maryland in 1730, this well educated Muslim became a celebrity in England because of his life story. He returned to his home in West Africa in 1734 after philanthropists bought his freedom.

West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers exploitation of the slave trade

Private trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade; including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples

West African kingdom whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade

Name given to the spread of African people across the Atlantic via the slave trade