Exam 15: D: Economic Transformations Commerce and Consequence 1450-1750

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria)whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -They were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade,including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Term often used 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.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Sold into slavery in West Africa and transported to work on a plantation in Maryland in 1730,this well-educated Muslim (ca.1700-1773)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.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -City that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia)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.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -The massive,interconnected web of commerce in premodern times that included East Africa,India,and Southeast Asia;the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a closed-door policy toward European encroachments.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -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.

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -An archipelago 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.