Ch 15 Vocab Test

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.

The warrior elite of medieval Japan.

The long established trade network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500.

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

Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors.

Native American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade.

A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era.

In Japan, a supreme military commander

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.

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.

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

Portuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe

Name commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas.

Military rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a “closed door” policy toward European encroachments.

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.

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

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

Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600.