Indian Ocean Commercial Network-the massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the indian ocean (including e. africa, india, and se asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intruding beginning around 1500.
This is the map of the Indian Ocean Trade from this map you can see a lot of trade routes.
Trading Post Empire-form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than control of subject peoples.
After the Trade for a country there are villages set up like the ones in the pictures.
Philippines-an archipelago of pacific islands colonized by spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565.
This is where the country of the Philippines is located, it is near Asia.
British/Dutch East India- Comprivate trading companies chartered by the governments of england and the netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on indian ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered by people.
This is the East Indian company Logo.
Tokugawa Shogunate-military rulers of japan who successfully united japan politically by the early 17th c. and established a "closed door" policy toward european enroachments.
This is a painting picture of the Japanese rulers altogether.
Silver Drain-The term often used to describe the siphoning of money from europe to pay for the luxury products of the east, a process exacerbated by the fact that europe had few trade goods that were desirable in markets.
This is the map of the Silver drain.
Potosi- A city that developed high in the andes (in present day bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the americas, with the population of some 16,000 in the 1750s.
This is a picture of the city Potosi.
Soft Gold-It is the nickname used in the early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols for elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it.
In the Early Modern period people called
African Diaspora-name given to the spread of african peoples across the atlantic via the slave trade
Map of the Africans spreading around.
Benin/Dahomey-african kingdom (what is now nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade
This is a mpa of the