China & Japan
This culture had the most influence on Japanese culture in the 1500s & 1600s
What is Chinese culture?
This was the most religiously tolerant of the empires in the Islamic World
What is the Mughal Empire?
These people were most likely to intermix with Indigenous Americans
Who are the Spanish?
This scientist is credited with inventing the scientific method
Who is Francis Bacon?
This was the paradox of cultural flourishing in West Africa
What is that the revival of art was made possible by the slave trade?
This is the reason China had a large publishing industry in the 1500s and 1600s
What is that they invented the printing press and paper?
This is the reason why the Safavid Empire emphasized the Persian language outside of religious matters
What is their desire to keep their own culture and resist the spread of Arabic?
These documents show the influence of Enlightenment ideas on the Americas
What are the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution?
These are laws which come from God or nature, not a king or government
What is natural law?
This is a colony formed for the specific purpose of sending criminals to as a punishment
What is a penal colony?
This is a native Japanese spiritual practice where people worship gods and spirits associated with nature
What is Shinto?
This movement advocated for more spiritual equality for lower caste Hindus and women within the Mughal Empire
What is the Bhakti Movement?
Vodun is an example of _________, where two separate traditions were blended to create a third, distinct tradition
What is a syncretic religion/religious syncretism?
This was a period during which philosophy, politics, and economics were developed which emphasized people being more involved in government, and government being less involved in the economy
What is the Enlightenment?
This is the process of a population going down through war, starvation, migration, or disease
What is depopulation?
This was the name given to knowledge introduced to Japan from Europe
What is Dutch Learning?
Name three reasons why the Ottoman and Mughal empires needed to be so religiously tolerant
They were religiously diverse
They were culturally diverse
It prevented rebellions
Name three differences between the Spanish and English colonies in the Americas
Spanish were more racially mixed, with racialized social classes
English were more racially segregated with more economic social classes
Spanish had a censored press
English had a freer press
Spanish colonists wanted to convert Indigenous people
English colonists didn't care as much about converting Indigenous people
This was a period of development in math and science which made them uniformly testable and based on observation and experimentation
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Europeans developed this stereotype about Aboriginal Australians and Polynesians because of their initial friendliness towards European explorers
What is the "noble savage"?
Name three reasons it was easier to control European influence on Japan than Chinese influence
China was much closer than Europe
Chinese influence had a longer history in Japan
European culture was much more different from Japanese culture than Chinese culture was
These flowers became very popular in the Ottoman Empire, and ended up creating a cultural mania in the Netherlands that went so far as to crash the economy
What are tulips?
This is the syncretic religious tradition that blends Roman Catholicism and Afro-Caribbean spirituality
What is Santeria/Regla de Ocha?
Name three ways that the "new science" of the Scientific Revolution was different from the science of other eras.
Uniformly testable
Based on observation
Based on collecting data to answer questions
Name three differences between Christopher Columbus and James Cook?
Cook was a respected scientist and mapmaker, Columbus was unknown
Cook knew that what he was looking for existed, Columbus didn't know about the Americas at all
Cook went for the purpose of colonization