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| a company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia. |
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| a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. |
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| a Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644. |
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| China's last dynasty, which ruled from 1644 to 1912. |
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| a Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai |
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| a dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867 |
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| a Japanese form of poetry consisting of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables |
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| a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories |
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| a land controlled by another nation |
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| the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of Americas in the 16th century |
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| a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry |
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| a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it |
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| the former French colonies and possessions in North America, most of which were lost to England and Spain by 1763: often restricted to the French possessions in Canada |
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| The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor. |
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| a group of people who, in 1620, founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution in England. |
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| a group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the early 1600s. |
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| a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. |
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| a conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763. |
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| the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas. |
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| the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americans. |
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| the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves. |
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