Religion
Power & Politics
Monumental Architecture
Exploration and Consequences
Economics and Ecology
Systems of Labor
100
German priest and theologian (1498-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
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.
What is centralization?
100
Shah Jahan built this giant iconic mausoleum for his wife. It showed his vast power.
What is the Taj Mahal?
100
This saw the movement of crops, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic and ultimately brutal devastation for the Native Americans who had little immunity to said diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
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
100
This leg of the Transatlantic Slave Trade was devastating and saw human beings crammed into ships with little regard for their health or safety.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorities in exchange for money.
What are Indulgences?
200
This period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under a military dictatorship with a feudal government and a closed Japan.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
200
Built outside of Paris to glorify the French king's rule (Louis XIV) and subdue the nobility. The expenses lead to France being bankrupt.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
200
This Portuguese Prince was responsible for building maritime schools.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
European nations were exploring to find the quickest route to here in order to profit off the abundant trade in the region.
What is India / the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
200
Soldiers in the Ottoman Empire who had once been Christians, prior to their enslavement and forced service in the Ottoman army as a part of the Devshirme System.
What are Janissaries?
300
The Ottoman Empire were ______ Muslims, where the Safavid were ______ Muslims.
What are Sunni and Shi'a?
300
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.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
300
This was originally an Orthodox Church in Constantinople, after the Ottomans conquered the city it was transformed into a mosque.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
300
The two most powerful and influential nations at the beginning of the Age of Exploration.
What are Spain and Portugal?
300
Large, investor-backed companies that sponsored European exploration and colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hoping to reap in the profitable rewards.
What are Joint-stock companies ?
300
These types of workers were bound to their land and had to work it. They were not freed in Russia until 1861.
What are serfs?
400
This religion was founded by Guru Nanak in the Punjab region of India around 1500 CE. It saw some truths in both Islam and Hinduism, but developed another way in response to both of them.
What is Sikhism?
400
This man conquered Constantinople in 1453, radically altering world history by ending the Roman Empire and forcing Europeans to try and find new routes to the luxury goods of the east.
Who is Mehmed II?
400
Built by the Ming, only the Emperor, his household, and his eunuchs could enter here.
What is the Forbidden City?
400
Name three maritime technological innovations of the period 1450-1750 that enabled exploration.
What are
Compass, Astrolabe, Caravel, Cartography, Lanteen Sail.
New ships like the Carrack, Caravel, or Fluyt
400
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.
What is Mercantilism ?
400
A Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-Christian peoples.
What is the Encomienda System?
500
In India this tolerant leader created the ultimate synchronistic religion "Dīn-i Ilāhī" which blended Hindu, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
Who is Akbar?
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500
The Tsar (Czar) who "westernized" Russia by implementing technology and trade from Western Europe.
Who is Peter the Great?
500
This was built by the Inca on a mountaintop in modern day Peru between the 1400s and 1500s. It may have been built as a palace for Pachacuti, but was abandoned during the Spanish conquest.
What is Machu Picchu?
500
Name at least TWO Portuguese explorers from the time period 1450-1750
Who are
Bartolomeu Dias (1450 - 1500)
Vasco da Gama (1460 - 1524)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521)
500
Name at least three crops that were originally from the Americas that benefited Europe once they reached the continent.
What are
Maize (corn), potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, beans, peanuts, cacao (chocolate), peppers.
500
This strong African kingdom became wealthy due to the Atlantic Slave Trade and had a strong relationship with the Portuguese.
What is the Asante Empire?