List of Articles
List of Contributors
Chronology
Major Themes
Abahai Khan
Abbas the Great of Persia
absolutism, European
Africa, Portuguese in
Akan states of West Africa
Akbar
Alawi dynasty in Morocco
Albuquerque, Afonso de
Almagro, Diego de
Altan Khan
Alvarado, Pedro de
Anabaptism
Andean religion
Anne
Araucanian Indians (southwestern South America)
art and architecture
Ashanti kingdom in Africa
Atahualpa
Atlantic islands of Spain and Portugal
Augsburg, Peace of
Augsburg Confession
Aurangzeb
Austrian Succession, War of the (1740–174 )
Aztecs (Mexica)
Aztecs, human sacrifice and the
Babur
Bacon, Sir Francis
Bacon’s Rebellion
bandeirantes in Brazil
baroque tradition in Europe
Bible traditions
Bible translations
Boabdil (Muhammad XI)
Book of Common Prayer, the
Borgia family
Bourbon dynasty in Latin America
Boyne, Battle of the
Braganza, House of
Brazil, conquest and colonization of
Brest, Council of
British East India Company
British North America
Bull of Demarcation
Bushido, Tokugawa period in Japan
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
Cabot, John (c. 1451–c. 14 ) and Sebastian (c. 14 –1557)
Cabral, Pedro Álvares
cacao
caciques in Latin America
Cajamarca, Peru
Calvin, John
Caribbean, conquest of the
Central America, conquest of
Charles I
Charles II
Charles V (Charles I of Spain)
Chilam Balam, books of
Christian century in Japan
Christina Vasa
Church of England
Clement VII
Clive, Robert
coca
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
Columbian exchange
Columbus, Christopher
Commonwealth of England
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de
Cortés, Hernán
Cossacks
Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation) in Europe
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuautemoc
Cuzco (Peru)
De Soto, Hernando
Delhi and Agra
Descartes, René
Dias, Bartolomeu
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
Diet of Worms
dissenters in England
divine faith in Europe
Dominicans in the Americas
Dorgon
Drake, Francis
Dutch East India Company (Indonesia/Batavia)
Dutch in Latin America
Dutch in South Africa
Eck, Johann Maier von
Edo period in Japan
Edward VI
Elizabeth I
encomienda in Spanish America
epidemics in the Americas
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Ewuare the Great
exclusion laws in Japan
expulsion of the Jews from Spain (14 ) and Portugal (14 7)
Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe(François Fénelon)
Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain
Francis de Sales (François de Sales), St.
Franciscans in the Americas
French East India Company
Fronde, the
Galileo Galilei
Gama, Vasco da
Geneva
Genroku period in Japan
George I
George II
Glorious Revolution
Goa, colonization of
Godunov, Boris
Great Wall of China, the
Guicciardini, Francesco
Habsburg dynasty
hacienda in Spanish America
Harvard College
Henry IV
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Hobbes, Thomas
Hohenzollern dynasty in Brandenburg and Prussia
Holy Roman Empire
honor ideology in Latin America
Hudson’s Bay Company
Huguenots
humanism in Europe
Humayun
Hutchinson, Anne
Ibn Ghazi, Ahmed
indentured servitude in colonial America
indigo in the Americas
Inquisitions, Spanish and Roman
Isfahan (Persia)
Ivan III the Great
Ivan IV the Terrible
Jahangir
James I (James VI of Scotland)
James II
Jamestown
Janissaries
Jesuits in Asia
Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo
João III the Pious
John III
Julius II
justification by faith
Kaikhta, Treaty of
Kangxi (K’ang-hsi)
Kepler, Johannes
King Philip’s (Metacom’s) War (1 75–1 7 )
Knox, John
Kongo kingdom of Africa
Koprülü family
Korea, Japanese invasion of
Landa, Diego de
Las Casas, Bartolomé de
Lebna Dengel
Le dynasty of Vietnam
Leo X
Leo Africanus (Hassan El Wazzan)
literature
Locke, John
Louis XI
Louis XIV
Louis XV
Loyola, Ignatius of, and the Society of Jesus
Luba-Lunda
Luther, Martin
Macao, Portuguese in
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Magellan, Ferdinand
Malacca, Portuguese and Dutch colonization of
Malinche, La (Doña Marina)
Mamluk dynasties in Egypt
Marie-Thérèse of Austria
Maroon societies in the Americas
Mary I (Bloody Mary)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Maryland
Mary Tudor (Mary of France)
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mather, Increase (1 –17 ) and Cotton (1 –17 )
Medici family
Mehmed II (Mehmet II)
Melancthon, Philip
mercantilism
Mexico, Basin of
Mexico, conquest of
Ming, Southern
Ming dynasty, late
mita labor in the Andean highlands
Moctezuma II
Mohács, Battle of (Mohacz, Battle of)
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de
More, Sir Thomas
Mughal Empire
Münster commune
music
Nadir Shah
Nagasaki
Nahua (Nahuatl)
Nantes, Edict of
Natives of North America
Neo-Confucianism in Japan
Nerchinsk, Treaty of
Netherlands, revolt against Spanish rule in the
New France
New Netherland
New Spain, colonial administration of
New Spain, Viceroyalty of (Mexico)
Newton, Isaac
northwestern South America, conquest of
Nurhaci (Nurhachi)
Nzinga Mbandi
obrajes in colonial Latin America
Oda Nobunaga
Omani empire in East Africa
Oñate, Juan de
Osaka
Ottoman Empire (1450–1750)
Ottoman-Safavid wars
Panipat, Battles of
Peasants’ War
Penn, William
Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
Peru, conquest of
Peru, Viceroyalty of
Peter I the Great
Philip II
Philippines, Spanish colonization of the
piracy in the Atlantic world
Pizarro, Francisco
Plassey, Battle of
Popul Vuh
Potosí (silver mines of colonial Peru)
Powhatan Confederacy
printing press, Europe and the
Pueblo Revolt
Puritanism in North America
Puritans and Puritanism
Qing (Ch’ing) dynasty, rise and zenith
Qing (Ch’ing) tributary system
Quietism
race and racism in the Americas
Rajputs
Raleigh, Sir Walter
reducciones (congregaciones) in colonial Spanish America
Reformation, the
repartimiento in Spanish America
Ricci, Matteo
Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc and cardinal de
rites controversy in China
Ronin, 47
Roses, Wars of the
Sa’did dynasty
Safavid Empire
Savonarola, Girolamo
scientific revolution
Scottish Reformation
Sekigahara, Battle of (1 00)
Selim II
Sengoku Jidai
Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de
Seville and Cádiz
Shah Jahan
Shimabara Rebellion, Japan
ships and shipping
Shivaji
Sikhism and Guru Nanak
silver in the Americas
Sinan, Abdul-Menan
slave trade, Africa and the
Songhai Empire
Spanish Armada
Spanish Succession, War of the
Stuart, House of (England)
sugarcane plantations in the Americas
Suleiman I the Magnificent
Sunni Ali
Swiss Confederacy
Tabin Swehti
Taj Mahal
Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross
Thirty Years’ War
tobacco in colonial British America
Tokugawa bakuhan system, Japan
Tokugawa Hidetada
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Toledo, Francisco de
Tordesillas, Treaty of
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Trent, Council of
Tudor dynasty
Valdivia, Pedro de
Valois dynasty
Vasa dynasty
Vespucci, Amerigo
Virgin of Guadalupe
voyages of discovery
Wanli (Wan-Li)
William III
Williams, Roger
Winthrop, John
witchcraft
Wu Sangui (Wu San-kuei)
Yi dynasty (early)
Yongzheng (Yung-Cheng)
Yucatán, conquest of the
Zenger, John Peter
Zheng Chenggong (Cheng Ch’eng-Kung)
Zwingli, Ulrich
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