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| a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc. |
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| Causes of Exploration/Old World/New World |
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-Drastic changes in population (Black Death)
-Drastic changes to economic system
-Feudalism to trading
-Distinct "winners" and "losers"
-Rise of independent nations headed by monarchies
-Protestant reformation and counter reformation |
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| The European policy of requiring colonies to exclusively trade with "mother country" |
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The policy of extending a nation's political and economic dominance or control over another country
-empire |
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-Increase of wealth of nations
-Desire for new markets
-Desire for raw materials
-Growing sense of nationalism
-Maintain political prestige
-Belief that Western civilizations are superior to non-Western |
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Columbus created this exchange between the Old World and New World.
-Movement of people, animals, plants, and diseases |
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| Practice of trading between 3 ports |
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| the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships. |
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| British trading company that traded cloth, silk, and sugar. |
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| Indian soldiers hired to protect the British. |
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The formal act by which a nation asserts its reign over a territory previously outside its reign.
-Complete take over
-People that have always lived there stay
-Usually taken over through war |
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A self-governing territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against by a stronger power.
-Remains an independent nation and is governed by its own people |
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A colony made of a group of people with a similar background that settle in a distant territory, but remain connected to homeland.
-create new economy, government, and defense system
-new inhabitants have no connection to natives |
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When a power claims a new territory as part of its "sphere of influence", it is taking complete economic control of that country.
-New business market
-No other country can use the territory |
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-End of slave trade
-Muslim traders from North were still practicing the slave trade illegally
-"legit" trade
-New navigation, medicine, and military advancements. |
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| Families traveled from England to America to live on and govern the land that belonged to the Native Americans |
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| In China, the European powers desired to make rich profits off of the cheap labor and natural resources. They claimed a different region of China to be their market for business. |
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| In 1807, the British took control of Nigeria. However, since the area had many different tribes and languages that the British did not understand, they allowed the local governments to rule the land as long as they followed British orders. |
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| After the Sepoy Munity, the British ruled India directly as a colony. A British govenor was sent to the colony and few Indians had influence on his decisions. |
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