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
Where did most of the globes cotton come from during 1450-1750
India
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 economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
Mercantilism
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
What was the Enlightenment?
A movement to apply science and reason to government and society
The two ways the Spanish used MOST of the silver extracted from the Americas.
By Chinese silks/products and war against protestants.
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 Ottoman Empire?
Sunni
Name of the movement began by Martin Luther to reform the Catholic Church?
the Reformation, or the Protestant Reformation
Identify an scientist from the Scientific Revolution and identify their discovery
Copernicus, Galileo--Heliocentrism. Newton--Laws of Gravity and Calculus. Many others.
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)
Difference between English and Iberian treatment of Native Americans*
Intermingling of peoples of any sort was not condoned.
Identify the three great West African Empires
Ghana, Mali, and in this Era-- especially the Songhay Also acceptable: Benin, Congo, and Songhay.
Identify an example of a syncretic religion (from this era)*
Sikhism (South Asia), Vodun (Voodoo--the Caribbean variety), Cult of Saints (Latin America)
Why did British Colonist conflict with the Native American Population more than the French Colonist?
French- interested in Fur trade less about settling
British- want to settle longterm and more concerned with acquiring more land