Changes in Europe
What is the Renaissance
- a change in the way people thought. A movement towards humanism and away from religion.
What is the encomienda system and which mother country used this practice?
The Spanish conquistadors were supposed to offer protection to this population in exchange for forced labor.
Spain
What is Quipu?
- Incan device to record information with knots and strings.
What is the Virginia Plan?
- By Thomas Jefferson
- To settle the new issue with representation at the federal level.
- two houses with representation based on population.
What is a foundational structure that the Aztec Empire would use to cultivate crops and they used this for transportation.
Chinampas
Why did the Renaissance take place in Italian City states first?
- Italian peninsula geographic region
- wealthy family (De Medici)
- sites of heritage
What crop was grown in the Caribbean and Brazil?
Sugarcane
What is the time period for the Enlightenment?
1680s to 1815.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
- a plan to settle and organize the new land they gained from the Treaty of Paris 1783.
Who is Mansa Musa?
- credited with growing Timbuktu (major city)
- brought Islam to Africa (religious leadership)
- spend huge sums of money on his pilgrimage
Who invented the Printing Press & explain the significance?
Johannes Gutenberg
1450
- more copies, literacy rates increase, reliance on the Catholic Church decreases.
What is colonization?
a country will extend control over other groups of people or territories that it wants to use for economic gains.
What caused the largest decline in the Aztec and Inca Population?
- Hernan Cortes
- Pizarro
- Smallpox.
- Anti Federalist (Democratic Republicans) were fearful of the increase in power that the federal government had and demanded a BOR be added before they ratify this new document.
Which dynasty used the Civil Service Exam?
- Ming