Strayer, Ch. 6 Economic Transformations (1450-1750)

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

Web of commerce in water near East Africa, India and SE Asia; badly disrupted by Portuguese

Private trading companies chartered by governments; monopolize Indian Ocean trade

Nickname for animal furs; symbols of elite status and warmth; massive wealth for traders in it

Pacific islands controlled by the Spanish in 1565; named after the king of Spain

The standard Spanish silver coin used by merchants in NA, Europe, India, Russia, West Africa, and China

Form of imperial dominance based on control of commerce instead of on control of subject people

1500-1866; trade in human beings (12.5 m) from Africa, shipped via the Middle passage to Americas (10.7 m), 1.8 m died

Capital of the colonized Philippines; site of flourishing trade, diversity; site of violence between Spanish and Chinese

West African kingdoms whose strong kings limited engagement with the slave trade

The small number of African women who were able to exercise power and accumulate wealth through marriage to Euro traders

Describes the taking of money from Europe to pay for luxury goods of the East; $ go to China

City in the Andes (Bolivia) that was the site of the largest silver mine in the Americas

Free societies of former slaves in remote regions of South America and the Carib; largest settlement in Brazil

Global industry with French, Dutch, British exporting fur from NA to Europe, using Native American labor; Siberia too

West African kingdom became strong through rulers exploitation of slave trade