Gunpowder Empires
This elite Ottoman military corps was recruited through the devshirme system.
What are the Janissaries?
This small, maneuverable Portuguese ship design was ideal for oceanic exploration.
What is a caravel?
This South American mountain in modern-day Bolivia was the largest source of silver in the world.
What is PotosÃ?
Japan's "closed country" policy was known by this Japanese term.
What is sakoku?
These communities were formed by escaped enslaved peoples who fled to mountainous or remote areas.
What are Maroon communities?
This Mughal emperor was known for religious tolerance and employing Hindu officials in his administration.
Who is Akbar (the Great)?
The Portuguese pioneered a sea route around this southern African landmark to reach Asia.
What is the Cape of Good Hope (or southern tip of Africa)?
China demanded silver for these two main purposes in its economy.
What are taxes and currency (or monetary transactions)?
Japan banned this religion because it was seen as a destabilizing force.
What is Christianity?
These two regions in the Americas received the most enslaved Africans due to plantation agriculture.
What are the Caribbean and Brazil?
The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire fought over this major religious division within Islam.
What is the Sunni-Shia split?
This city in the Philippines became the crucial connection point between American silver and Asian markets.
What is Manila?
The influx of American silver into Europe caused this economic phenomenon.
What is the Price Revolution (or inflation)?
This European country was allowed to maintain limited trade with Japan because they were less interested in spreading Christianity.
What is the Netherlands (or Dutch)?
This brutal sea voyage brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This system allowed religious communities in the Ottoman Empire to govern themselves internally.
What is the millet system?
Portuguese exploration disrupted this Italian city-state's monopoly on the Mediterranean spice trade.
What is Venice?
Europeans used American silver primarily to purchase these types of goods from Asia.
What are luxury goods (spices, silk, porcelain, textiles, tea)?
Qing emperors employed these Catholic missionaries as scholars because they provided knowledge of mathematics and astronomy.
Who are Jesuits?
The Atlantic slave trade caused these demographic changes in West Africa.
What is loss of young male population (accept: restructured gender/family roles, population decline)?
This Mughal emperor was religiously conservative and increased taxes on non-Muslims, contributing to unrest.
Who is Aurangzeb?
This religious order was most active in global missionary work during this period.
What are the Jesuits (or Society of Jesus)?
This term describes how silver connected the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa in direct economic exchange for the first time.
What is the first truly global economy?
Despite sakoku, Japan continued regulated trade with these two Asian neighbors.
What are China and Korea?
In 1739, British colonial authorities made a treaty with these Maroon rebels in Jamaica, requiring them to capture other runaways.
Who are the Windward Maroons?