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Asante Kingdom of the Asante people, which reached its height after 1700, was located in a gold-producing forest of what is modern-day Ghana.
corvée French word meaning labor service owed to the state.
encomienda Spanish royal grant of authority over the labor of Native Americans in the Spanish colonies; the encomienda holder was required to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
Hispaniola Island to the east of Cuba where Columbus founded a Spanish colony in 1493; present-day island of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Potosi Andean city where the Spanish required Native Americans to mine silver for global trade; one of the largest world cities in the sixteenth century.
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