Europe
This political system dominated medieval Europe before the rise of centralized monarchies
What is feudalism
This city served as the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan
This African region supplied most enslaved people to the Atlantic trade.
What is West Africa?
This crop drove the expansion of plantation slavery in the Atlantic World.
What is Sugar?
This Enlightenment idea held that knowledge comes from sensory experience.
What is Empiricism
This Renaissance movement emphasized classical texts, education, and the potential of human reason.
What is Humanism
This Spanish labor system granted colonists control over Indigenous labor.
What is the Encomienda System
This West African kingdom gained early power by controlling gold and salt trade routes.
What is Ghana?
This trade system linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
This philosopher argued that government exists to protect natural rights.
This doctrine claimed that monarchs ruled with authority granted directly by God.
What is Divine Right
This transcontinental exchange introduced disease, animals, and crops between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This ruler’s pilgrimage displayed the immense wealth of West Africa’s gold trade.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This forced transatlantic voyage had extremely high mortality rates.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Enlightenment philosopher argued that legitimate government rests on a social contract formed by the general will.
Who is Jean Jacque Rousseau?
This institution enforced Catholic orthodoxy and investigated heresy in early modern Europe.
What is the Inquisition
This agricultural system relied on enslaved labor to produce export crops.
What is the Plantation System?
This empire dominated West Africa after the decline of Mali.
What is Songhai?
This legal and social system defined enslaved people as property for life.
What is Chattel Slavery?
This work argued that political liberty requires divided governmental powers.
What is the Spirit of the Laws
This change best explains how European states were able to project power overseas in the 15th–17th centuries.
What is New Monarchy
This Indigenous group allied with Cortés against the Aztec Empire.
Who are the Tlaxcalans?
These oral historians preserved history, law, and genealogy in West African societies.
What are Griots?
This European nation transported the largest number of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is Portugal?
This massive Enlightenment project sought to collect and organize all human knowledge and was edited by Denis Diderot.
What is the Encyclopedie?