Trade
Where did most of the silver come from during this period?
The New World, The Americas South America--best answer Potosi
What was the demographic change in Native American populations during this era and what primarily caused that change?
Steep decline and disease from the European encounter
What contributed most to the expansion of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires?
Gunpowder.
What was the religion of the majority of the people in the Mughal Empire?
Hinduism
What were the four categories of things exchanged during the Colombian Exchange?
Plants, Animals, People, and Disease
How did Japanese trade policy change with the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate?*
Isolation. Virtually cut off all contact with foreigners (trade with Europeans for example was limited to one ship/year at the port of Nagasaki)
Name given to the portion of the Triangle Trade that brought African slaves to the Americas.
We are NOT look for "the Atlantic Circuit, or the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade"
The Middle Passage
What are the two main branches of Islam practiced by the Gunpowder Empires?
Sunni and Shiite
What was the religion of the leaders of the Mughal Empire?
Islam
Identify at least two plants--one from the Afro-Eurasia and one from the Americas--that were exchanged during this era.
From Americas: Corn, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Cacao. From Afro-Eurasia: Sugar, Grains, coffee, onions
The Ming policy towards trade and taxes*
They limited foreign trade to the port of Canton and collected taxes only in silver
identify two of the four major systems of coerced labor to emerge during this era.
Mita Encomienda Indentured Servitude Chattel Slavery
Identify three "Maritime" empires and what makes them "Maritime"*
England, France, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands (Dutch). They are all sea based.
Mughal religious policy of Babur and Akbar
Religious Toleration
Identify two instances of resistance to imperial conquest, exploitation and/or state centralization
Pueblo Revolts, the Fronde, Cossack Revolts, Maratha, Queen Nziga (as ruler of Ndongo and Matamba), Metacom's War, Maroon societies in Brazil and the Caribbean, Enslaved Person revolts in NA
The two ways the Spanish used MOST of the silver extracted from the Americas.
War against protestants and buying Chinese silks/products and
Identify the two new racial classifications to emerge in Spanish and Portuguese American empires
Mulatto and Mestizo
What branch of Islam was practiced by the Safavid Empire?
(Hint: it was the opposite branch practiced by the Ottomans and Mughals)
Shiite
Name of the movement began by Martin Luther?
the Reformation, or the Protestant Reformation
SKIP Identify an scientist from the Scientific Revolution and identify their discovery
Copernicus, Galileo--Heliocentrism. Newton--Laws of Gravity and Calculus. Many others.
What was the role of the Europeans in the East Asian trade? *
Middle men
(hint: think of the role the Portuguese played in the China-Japan trade)
Difference between English and Iberian treatment of Native Americans*
Intermingling of peoples of any sort was considered taboo by the English.
Identify the Maritime Empire that would challenge the Portuguese in Brazil and Africa, and largely supplant them in the Indian Ocean.
The Dutch (aka the Netherlands)
(also know for the innovation known as the Joint-Stock Company)
Identify an example of a syncretic religion (from this era)*
Sikhism (South Asia), Vodun (Voodoo--the Caribbean variety), Cult of Saints (Latin America)
Identify and explain one way a state centralized it authority during this era.
Devshirme, Jannisaries, (Neo)-Confucian Civil Service exam, eliminated the Jizya tax on non-Muslims in the Mughal empire, etc
(bonus: Sword Confiscation in Tokugawa Japan, Hostage system (also Japan),