"Big Picture" Themes
Unit III
Unit III
What are religion, politics, territorial disputes, etc.?
Millet, devshirme (blood tax), Sunni, gunpowder
Who are the Ottomans?
Knowledge, scientific learning, and technology from the Classical, Islamic, and Asian worlds facilitated Atlantic exploration in this region from 1450-1750
What is Western Europe?
economic monopoly, colony, royal charter
What are joint-stock companies?
coercive labor, farm, cash crop, sugar
What are plantations?
Commercial Revolution, Buddhism, Iron Production, China
Who are the Tang & Song?
three major land-based empires 1450-1750 (besides the Ottoman, Mughals, and Safavids)
What are the Mings, Qings, Russians, Tokugawas?
Abbas, Iran, Shia
What is the Safavid Empire?
their development of maritime technology and navigational skills led to increased travel to and trade with Africa and Asia & resulted in the construction of a global trading-post empire
What is Portugal?
three types of coercive labor systems used from 1450-1750
What is chattel slavery, indentured servitude, encomienda system, mita system, etc.?
religion, absolutism, Louis XIV of France, Charles I of England & Scotland
What is the divine right of kings?
peace, spread of disease, science, and tech
What is the Pax Mongolica?
imperial expansion in this period often depended on the expanded use of this technology
What is gunpowder?
Akbar the Great, zamindars, Maratha Rebellion
What is the Mughal Empire?
the intensification of interactions between newly connected hemispheres/continents expanded the reach of existing religions, and often led to this
What is syncretism?
this joint stock company had a monopoly on spice trade when they took over from Portugal in the 1600s
What is the VOC?
printing press, religious conflict, sola fide, Calvinist, Anglican
What is the Protestant Reformation?
SE Asia, sea-based, commercial, Hindu & Buddhist
What is Srivajaya or Majapahit?
CULTURAL methods that rulers used to cement their authority in this period
What is monumental architecture, art, divine right theory, etc.?
Beards, Westernization, St. Petersburg
Who is Peter I of Russia?
Some notable gender and family restructuring that occurred in Africa as a result of the slave trades
What is gender imbalance (more females than males), women taking political and religious leadership roles?
Americas, Spain, Portugal, Pope Alexander VI
What is Treaty of Tordesillas?
conquerors, China, gunpowder, rebellions
Who are the Qing?
Mali, Songhay, Seljuks, House of Wisdom, Sultanates
What is Dar al-Islam?
marked a break with existing European Christian traditions in this period
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Isolation, persecution, "barbarian-quelling" general
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
State expansion and centralization in this period often led to political resistance, this is one example from a maritime or land-based empire
What is Pueblo Revolt, King Philip's War, Maratha Rebellion, Stono Rebellion, anti-Qing revolts led by Han Chinese, etc.?
colonies, relationship, economic, metropole
What is mercantilism?
compass, astrolabe, rudders, riches, fame
What is the Era of Trade and Exploration?
melting pot, Indian Ocean, decentralized