Mongols
Trade route that officially connected Asia, Europe and Africa.
What is the Silk Road?
This 9 part war spread over an almost 200 year period between the Christians and Muslims.
What is/are the Crusades?
To kick a heretic (someone who goes against the Catholic Church) out of the Church.
What is excommunicate?
Emperor Meiji is known for doing this during his reign. Yummy, taste like Japanese M&M's.
What is westernization/modernization?
Theory that we live in a sun centered universe.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
Due to the new trade routes, new ideas, beliefs, and resources were being spread across the regions and reformed to fit their own cultures. This is known as...
What is cultural diffusion?
This is the type of government across Medieval Europe. Are you a lord or a serf?
What is feudalism?
This German monk is responsible for the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
Allowing someone to practice their own religion even though your religion is not the primary religion of the empire (typically seen in the Islamic Empires).
What is religious tolerance?
This theory says that God gives one the right to rule as a monarch.
What is Divine Right?
This man was the most infamous ruler, not just of the Mongols, but in all of world history. Of course he would be, roughly 16 million males today are related to him.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This is the type of economy across Medieval Europe that helped with the organization of the feudal society.
What is manorialism?
The Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation?
Blood Tax in the Ottoman Empie.
What is the Devshirme System?
A monarch with total control.
What is an absolute monarch (or despot)?
The Mongols are the only group to successfully invade what country?
What is Russia?
The region in the Middle East where modern Western religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) come from. Jerusalem is the most important city of the area.
What is the Holy Land?
When the Roman Catholic Church basically went on a hunt for non-Catholics (primarily Protestants) and forced conversion or death.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
This title would typically be the one running the empire in Japan, not the Emperor.
What are/Who are the Shogun?
A monarch that believed in the ideas of the Enlightenment.
What is an Enlightened Despot?
The Mongols' expansion of the Silk Road is considered to be the main cause of the spread of this "deathly" disease.
What is the Bubonic Plague/Black Death/Plague?
In a feudal manor, monarchs would divide their lands into this word.
What is a fief?
This is the meeting of the Church officials to make changes to the Roman Catholic Church after the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
Within Islamic Empires, major cities were broken into sectors where certain nationalities/religious groups would live but were able to trade and come together during the daytime.
What is the the Millet System?
This French philosopher believed that government needed 3 branches of government so that no one branch is stronger than the other.
Who is [Baron de] Montesquieu?