East Asian Powers
The Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644 and revived Confucian ideals.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The belief in human potential and achievements that shaped Renaissance thought.
What is Humanism?
The Spanish colonial administrative regions in the Americas.
What are Viceroyalties?
The trade system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The civil service exams that determined government positions in Ming China.
What is the Examination System?
The monk who began the Protestant Reformation by posting 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
These large agricultural estates were worked by Indigenous or enslaved laborers.
What are Haciendas?
The British law of 1807 that outlawed the slave trade.
What is the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade?
The Ming emperor whose lack of leadership weakened the dynasty’s later years.
Who is the Wanli Emperor?
The Catholic Church’s movement to reform itself and respond to Protestant challenges.
What is the Catholic Reformation?
The mixing of religious or cultural traditions, often seen in colonial Latin America.
What is Syncretism?
Formerly enslaved African who wrote a famous autobiography describing the Middle Passage.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The Korean ruler credited with creating the Hangul writing system.
Who is Emperor Sejong?
The scientist condemned by the Church for supporting the heliocentric model.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A symbol of Mexican faith blending Indigenous and Catholic imagery.
What is the Virgin of Guadalupe?
Communities formed by escaped enslaved people in the Americas.
What are Maroon communities?
The shogunate that unified Japan and brought centuries of peace and isolation.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
The 17th-century Basque nun who dressed as a man to travel and fight in the New World.
Who is Catalina de Erauso?
The celebrated Mexican nun, poet, and early feminist thinker.
Who is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?
The 17th–18th century political movement calling for the end of slavery.
What is the Abolitionist movement?