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- St. Helena Island
- A remote island in the South Atlantic where Napoleon was sent in his second exile, dying there six years later
- Ghazi
- warrior for Islam
- legitimacy
- the hereditary right of a monarch to rule
- hernando cortes
- spaniard who in 1519 landed on the shores of mexico
- Colony
- land controlled by another nation
- Shah Abbas
- Also known as Abbas the Great, took the throne in 1587 and helped create the Safavid culture
- puritans
- group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at massachusetts bay in the early 1600s
- Bartoloomeu Dias
- early portuguese explorer
- Klemens von Metternich
- Austria's chif minister presided over Congress of Vienna, believed europe should be the way it was before the french revolution
- Invasion of Russia
- Napoleon's most disastrous military campaign. Russian winter forced Napoleon to retreat, lead to his downfall
- lycee
- a government-run school in France
- Line of Demarcation
- imaginary longitude or north-south dividing line, drawn by pope alexander
- Congress of Vienna
- a series of meetings in 1814-1815 during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon
- french, indian war
- conflict between britain and grance for control of territory in north america
- facorable balance of trade
- economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- French general who proclaimed himself emperor and created a French empire in Europe
- Constantinople(1453 conquest)
- Considered most dramatic feat in ottoman history
- Manchus
- people native to manchuria who ruled china during the qing dynasty
- Janissary
- Member of an elite force of soldiers in the ottoman empire
- Francisco Pizarro
- spin 1532 conquistador who in 1532 conquered the incan empire
- Vasco Da Gama
- portuguese explorer credited with giving portugal a driect sea rout to india
- Millets
- separate legal courts
- metacom
- also known as king philip
- new france
- base of frances colonial empire in north america
- Ming Dynasty
- A chinese dynasty
- Prince herny
- called the navigator
- compass
- instrument for determining directions
- plebiscite
- a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- agreement between portugal and spain
- Caravel
- sturdier than earlier ships, triangular sails adipted from the arbs helped vessel to sail effectively against the wind
- Shah
- hereditary monarch of Iran
- conquistadors
- spanish conquistador
- capitalism
- economic system based on pricate ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit
- blockade
- the use of troops or ships to prevent comercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
- atahualpa
- incan king kidnapped by francisco pizzarro
- Suleyman the Lawgiver
- also called mehmed the magnificent ruled from 1520 to 1566
- mausoleum
- large tomb or building containing tombs
- Safavid
- a Shi'ite Muslim dynasty that ruled in persia
- Joint stock company
- usiness in which inestors pool their wealth for a common purpose then share the profits
- Byzantine Empire
- non-muslim relgious communities permitted to follow their own religious laws and practices.
- Osman
- known as the most successful warrior
- Jacques Cartier
- French explorer
- Hundred Days
- brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power
- Zheng He
- chinese muslim admiral
- Sultan
- overlord
- Infidel
- who doesnt believe in a certain religion
- Concert of Europe
- a series of alliances among European nations in the 19 century, devised by Prince Klemens to prevent the outbreak of revolutions
- Elba Island
- Island off the coast of Italy where Napoleon was sent into exile
- encomienda
- grant of land made by spain to a settler in americas
- Continental System
- Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britian and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy
- Qing Dynasty
- China's last dynasty which ruled from 1644 to 1912
- Timur the Lame
- named due to an injury by an arrow in the leg, this conqueror from Samakand burned what is now the city of bagdad
- scorched-earth policy
- The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land
- Jizya
- per capita tax imposed on non-Muslim
- Daimyo
- Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai
- Battle of Trafalgar
- an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson
- Mehmed 11
- Also called Mehmed the conqueror, Murad's son, conquered constantinople in 1453
- Tokugawa Shogumate
- dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified japan from 1603 t0 1867
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztec capital
- Montezuma
- Aztec emperor invaded by Hernando Cortes and his forces
- columbian exchange
- global transfer of plants, animals and diseases that occurred during the european colonization of the americas
- coup d'etat
- a sudden seizure of political power in a nation
- Ottoman
- follower of Osman(also called Othman)
- astrolabe
- brass circle with carefully adjusted rings marked off in degrees by ehich a sea captain could calculate the ships latitude
- Deveshirme
- in the ottoman empirem [policy of taking boys from conquered christian people to be trained as Muslim soldiers
- mercantilism
- economic policy under nations
- balance of power
- a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
- Napoleonic Code
- a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon
- Guerilla warfare
- A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country
- Holy Alliance
- a league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the congress of Vienna
- Dutch East India Company
- Company founded by the dutch in the early 17th century
- God, Glory, Gold
- primary motives for exploration
- pilgrims
- group of people who in 1620 founded the colony of plmouth in massachusetts to escape religious persecution
- Isma'il
- age of 12 young boy that ruled
- mestizo
- person of mized spanish and native american ancestry
- Waterloo
- French troops led by Napoleon were defeated by the armies of Prussia, Great Britain and the Netherlands in June 1815 in the Austrian Netherlands
- jamestown
- virginia colony settled by the english in 1607
- Christopher columbus
- genoese eas caption who in 1492 sailed across the atlantic
- new netherland
- discovered by herny hudson an englishman