Vocab 1
Trade routes through Asia connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Silk Road?
The three reasons that Europeans set off in search of new lands
What are gold, glory, and God?
A major economic theory in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries that said a nation's worth was based on its supply of gold and silver. It also stressed the importance of a favorable balance of trade (excess of exports over imports).
What is mercantilism?
A series of military expeditions in which Europeans tried to gain control of the Holy Land and Jerusalem from the Muslims
What are the Crusades?
1)Because they had profited from an agrarian revolution with new crops and farming practices. 2) Because of its natural resources (rivers, iron and coal) 3)Because it had a massive empire and a large market of buyers for its products
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?
A system of thought that focuses on humans rather than divine matters.
What is humanism?
The 5 main European countries involved in the Age of Exploration
What are Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire?
The transition to new manufacturing processes resulting in new technology aimed at allowing more goods to be produced at a very fast rate.Started with new farming practices and peaked with the development of factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
the economic effect of the Crusades
What is they helped Italian port cities to prosper and increased trade with the East?
They worked long hours for very little pay in dangerous conditions. It meant they were unable to go to school or play, worked in unhealthy environments, and could potentially be severely injured or killed.
How did the Industrial Revolution impact the lives of children?
Literally means "rebirth", referring to a time of rebirth of Ancient Greek and Roman culture. The movement began in Italy and emphasized the importance of the individual as well as secularism.
What is the Renaissance?
A time when Europeans set sail and spread around the world, starting new systems of trade. It also spread religion and the African slave trade, and wiped out much of the Native American population.
What is the Age of Exploration?
areas where imperial powers had the exclusive trading rights or exclusive mining and railroad-building privileges
What are Spheres of Influence?
The intellectual effects of the Crusades
What is advances made by the Arab dynasties in mathematics, technology, and medicine boosted European knowledge?Also, Europeans learned to make better maps and ships.
People moved to cities for jobs in factories, but conditions were unsanitary and disease was common.
How did the Industrial Revolution impact where and how people lived?
An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods is controlled by individuals and corporations, not the state. Emphasizes private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods and services for a profit.
What is capitalism?
Portugal gained access to expert maps of North Africa and sailed down the Western African coast, establishing trading posts. These sailors returned to Portugal with African captives for trade.
What is the beginning of the African slave trade?
The reform, or change, that established Protestantism as a branch of Christianity. A reform of the Roman Catholic Church in response to corruption in the Church. Associated with Martin Luther.
What is The Reformation?
They helped to break down feudalism and allowed kings to form stronger central governments and gain new wealth.
What are the political effects of the Crusades?
There was a demand for more workers, causing women to take on jobs in factories, and later as secretaries, salesclerks, and typists. This led to increased support for feminism and the fight for suffrage.
How did the Industrial Revolution impact the Women's Movement?
The act of extending rule over a foreign country or territory and/or holding colonies. For some, it meant expanding an empire and taking over new lands. For others, it meant losing their identity and resources to new rulers in a faraway place.
What is imperialism?
The exchange of plants, animals, and human populations that occurred for the first time between the Americas resulting in a change in diets of people all over the world, changes in the way land was used in the Americas, and transmission of viruses and bacteria resulting in disease and death.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
In 1555, when Lutherans won the right to practice their religion in Germany, giving German states the freedom to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
It bred religious intolerance, including attacks on the Jews. The split between Eastern and Western Christianity became permanent.
What were the religious effects of the Crusades?
The American Industrial Revolution was said to have begun here with Samuel Slater's invention of the first spinning mill.
What is Rhode Island?