World History

3. Economic theory stating that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and that in order to receive a large share, one country has to take some wealth away from another country
4. Large Chinese ships
6. Navigational instrument created in the 1300s that uses a magnetized piece of metal that points to the north
8. Transformation in thinking that occurred during the 1500s and 1600s caused by scientific observation, experimentation, and the questioning of traditional opinions
9. Military technique relying on swift raids by small bands of soldiers
11. rebellion against the Qing dynasty led by the Buddhist cult known as the White Lotus Society
14. System of trade involving three stages, one of which was the transatlantic slave trade
15. Business organization developed during the Commercial Revolution in which owners raised money by selling shares, or stock, in the company
16. Import taxes on foreign goods
17. Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country in which they live or do business
18. - Treaty following the Opium War in which China gave Hong Kong to Britain and opened ports to British trade
20. Method of inquiry that includes carefully conducted experiments and mathematical calculations to verify the results of experiments
23. Trade treaties that China signed under pressure of invasion, giving Western powers trade benefits
24. Government grants of money
25. Spanish officials who represented the monarchy in Spain’s colonial empire

1. Situation that exists when a country sells more goods than it buys
2. Era between 1400 and 1750 when Europeans made major changes to their economies due to new exploration
5. Conflict from 1839 to 1842 between China and Britain that arose due to Britain’s export of opium to China
7. Theory according to Hellenistic thinker Ptolemy that Earth is the center of the universe
10. Theory developed by Copernicus that the sun is the center of the universe
12. Agreement between Spain and Portugal that moved west the line determining
13. History of literature and language
19. Second stage of the triangular trade system, which involved the shipping of slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas
21. Single braid that characterized the hairstyle that all Chinese men were required to wear during the Qing dynasty
22. Practice based on the belief that government should not restrict or interfere with international trade