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Who was Queen Nzinga?
A powerful African ruler who resisted Portuguese colonization.
Who was Peter the Great?
A Russian Tsar who modernized Russia through westernization.
Who was Cortes?
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs.
Who was Columbus?
An explorer who sailed across the Atlantic and reached the Americas.
Who were Peninsulares?
Spaniards born in Spain, at the top of the Sociedad de Castas.
Who were Creoles?
Spaniards born in the Americas, below Peninsulares in the Sociedad de Castas.
Who were Mestizos/Mulattoes?
Mixed-race individuals in the Sociedad de Castas.
What happened in 1492?
Columbus's voyage to the Americas.
What happened in 1521?
Cortes conquers the Aztecs.
What happened in 1526?
Beginning of the Mughal Empire.
What happened in 1600?
Beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What happened in 1602?
Dutch East India Company established.
What happened in 1624?
Queen Nzinga becomes ruler of Ndongo.
What happened in 1697?
Peter the Great travels to Europe.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The exchange of goods, diseases, and food between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
A rebellion by Native Americans against Spanish colonizers.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
A slave rebellion in colonial South Carolina.
What is the definition of 'Colonize'?
To establish control over a territory and its people.
What is the definition of 'Columbian Exchange'?
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the definition of 'Mercantilism'?
An economic policy focused on increasing exports and decreasing imports to accumulate wealth.
What is the definition of 'Capitalism'?
An economic system where private individuals control the means of production.
What is the definition of 'Chattel Slavery'?
A system where people are treated as property and can be bought and sold.
What is the definition of 'Indentured Servitude'?
A system where people work for a set period in exchange for passage or debt payment.
What is the definition of 'Genocide'?
The deliberate destruction of a racial, ethnic, or national group.
What is the definition of 'Smallpox'?
A deadly disease that devastated Native populations.
What is the 'Dutch East India Company'?
A powerful joint-stock company that dominated trade in Asia.
What is the definition of 'Sociedad de Castas'?
A race-based class system that emerged in the Americas.