Religion 1450-1750
The spread and acceptance of Hinduism and Buddhism in Southeast Asia is best exemplified by this religious structure.
Angkor Wat Temple
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 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)
The 3 reasons for European exploration.
Gold, Glory, and God
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
the Englishman who formulated the modern laws of motion and mechanics
Sir Isaac Newton
Islam and Christianity
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
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
developed an improved telescope
Galileo
German priest and theologian (1498-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Martin Luther
The Tsar (Czar) who "westernized" Russia by implementing technology and trade from Western Europe.
Peter the Great
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.
India
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
resolved “to seek no other knowledge than that which I might find within myself, or perhaps in the book of nature, believed in Dualism
René Descartes
The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorities in exchange for money.
Indulgences
A new class of wealthy Europeans, created as a result of commercialization in Europe.
Gentry
The isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate.
Sakoku
The last king of the Aztecs.
Montezuma II
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
thinkers shared this belief in the power of knowledge to transform human society. They also shared a satirical, critical style, a commitment to openmindedness and inquiry, and in various degrees a hostility to established political and religious authority
European Enlightenment
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
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
Large, multiethnic states in Southwest, Central, and South Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories.
Muslim Gunpowder Empires
Form of imperial dominance based on the control of trade by establishing fortified posts in foreign territory, rather than on control of subjugated peoples.
Trade-Post Empire
Two new classes of people created in the Americas as a result of the Atlantic System (there are several, name two).
laid out a complex argument that all life was in constant change, that an endless and competitive struggle for survival over millions of years constantly generated new species of plants and animals