Key Terms
- caravel
- a fifteenth-century Portuguese sailing ship
- factory
- in the context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a trading post with offices and warehouses
- hangul
- the Korean alphabet, introduced by King Sejong in 1446
- joint stock company
- a company in which numerous merchants pooled their money to fund a business venture like a trading voyage and shared both risk and profit
- Sikhism
- a monotheistic faith that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam, established in the Punjab region of northwestern India in the fifteenth century
- Silhak
- a late seventeenth-century Korean reform movement that promoted the study of the physical sciences and technology in order to solve practical problems
- Sufi
- an Islamic mystic; practitioner of Sufism, the mystical expression of Islamic faith
- trade diaspora community
- society established by merchants who initially traveled to a foreign country to do business and then settled there
- Undang-Undang Laut Melaka
- a Malaccan maritime law code, part of the Undang-Undang Melaka, governing the conduct of sailors and traveling merchants