Ch 13 Flashcards
(15 cards)
The great dying
When 90% of Native Americans died due to the introduction of European and African diseases to the New World
Cortes
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Dona Marina
New slave woman, who translated for Cortes
Columbian exchange
Europeans and Africans immigrants and slaves that replaced the labor force after the great time in the New World
Peninsulares
In the colonial caste system of Spanish America, peninsulares were Spanish born Spaniards living in the New World
Mestizo
A person of combined European and native American Indian descent
Plantation complex
Plantations built in the New World
Mullattoes
People born of mixed Portuguese and African descent
Settler colonies
European families move to the New World to form communities
Siberia
Located in today’s eastern Russia, the expanding Russian Empire sees this territory so that they could get more soft gold (fur)
Yasak
Tribute paid to TSars/Russian state
Example soft gold in Siberia
Qing dynasty
Imperial China. Led by foreign rulers of Manchurian dissent. This empire was open to multiculturalism And created the borders of today’s China
Akbar
Mughal India’s most famous emperor. He was a Muslim emperor who accommodated the Hindu majority. He created his own religion trying from Muslim Hindu and other religions
Aurangzeb
A Muslim emperor of mughal Who tried to impose Islamic superiority. He weakened the empire by this
Devsherme
The collecting or the gathering
Christians were required by Ottomans to pay the human tax of a young boy child. these children were used as soldiers and slaves in the Ottoman Empire