Religion 1450-1750
German priest and theologian (1498-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Martin Luther
Built outside of Paris to glorify the French king's rule (Louis XIV) and subdue the nobility. The expenses lead to France being bankrupt.
Palace of Versailles
The official religion of the Ottoman Empire. If conquered by the Ottomans, you were not forced to convert if you paid a tax!
Islam (jizya tax)
This Portuguese Prince was responsible for building maritime schools.
Prince Henry the Navigator.
The extensive movements of plants, animals, diseases, and peoples between the Old and New Worlds after Columbus made his famous voyage at the end of the 15th century.
Columbian Exchange
This JST committed genocide against the people of The Banda Islands to corner the market on Nutmeg.
The Dutch East India Company.
The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorities in exchange for money.
Indulgences
The Tsar (Czar) who "westernized" Russia by implementing technology and trade from Western Europe.
Peter the Great
Soldiers in the Ottoman Empire who had once been Christians, prior to their enslavement and forced service in the Ottoman army.
Janissary
The two most powerful and influential nations during the Age of Exploration.
Spain, Portugal
African slave trade (Middle Passage) and environmental decline
A Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-Christian peoples.
Encomienda System
The unsuccessful attempt by the Roman Catholic Church to eradicate heresies (religious opinions contrary to the Church's dogma) including those of the Protestants. Primarily conceptualized and funded by Spanish monarchy in partnership with the Catholic Church.
Inquisition
A political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
Divine Right of Kings
The final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under the shogunate (military dictatorship) founded by Tokugawa.
Edo Period
European nations were exploring to find the quickest route to here.
Indian Ocean Trade Network
Or just India will work.
Large, investor-backed companies that sponsored European exploration and colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hoping to reap in the profitable rewards.
Joint-stock companies
The name of the new grain of rice that potentially doubled crop output and led to a population explosion in East Asia
Champa rice
In India this great leader created the ultimate synchronistic religion "The Devine Faith" which blended Hindu, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
Akbar The Great!
The act of concentrating power at the top of an organization or country. Philip II and Louis XIV were two of the most successful European rulers to do this.
Centralization
Shah Jahan built this giant iconic mausoleum for his wife. It showed his vast power.
Taj Mahal
The last king of the Aztecs.
Montezuma II (II optional)
A new economic system developed in the 15th century that sought to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restrictive trade practices. Its goal was to increase the supply of a state's gold and silver with exports rather than to deplete it through imports.
Mercantilism
A strong African kingdom that became wealthy due to the Atlantic Slave Trade during the era 1450-1750
Dahomey
The Ottoman Empire were ______ Muslims, where the Safavid were ______ Muslims.
Sunni Shia
Name the four MAJOR intellectual/religious movements that modernized Europe from 1450-1750 IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
The Renaissance, The Protestant Revolution, The Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment.
Name at least three ways Japan thrived during the Tokugawa Shogunate
Increased literacy, Dutch Studies, schools were built, economic growth, internal peace, and political stability.
Name three maritime technological innovations of the period 1450-1750.
Compas, Astrolabe, Caravel, Cartography, Lanteen Sail.
New ships like the Carrack, Caravel, or Fluyt
Name the social/racial classes of Colonial Spain from highest to lowest.
peninsular, creole, mestizo, mulatto, native American, and African slaves.
Name at least TWO Portuguese explorers from the time period 1450-1750
Bartolomeu Dias (1450 - 1500)
Vasco da Gama (1460 - 1524)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521)