Age of Exploration
The first European explorer to leave a detailed chronicle of his experience.
Marco Polo
The reformation was initiated by this German monk.
Martin Luther
A body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring knowledge, or correcting & integrating previous knowledge, through the application of empirical or measurable evidence.
Scientific Method/Baconian Method
Before European contact, the continent of Africa was ____________.
Isolationist
The battle for Asian supremacy was between which two regions?
China & Russia
Genoese explorer that accidentally discovered the Americas & enslaved 560 Native Americans.
Christopher Columbus
The religious institution that reformers were seeking to change due to their power & influence over country governments.
Holy Roman Catholic Church
"Father of Modern Observational Astronomy" & invented a larger telescope that could see into space.
Galileo Galilei
The "undesirable" people that would inhabit Portuguese colonies. List at least 3 of them.
Convicts, beggars, prostitutes, orphans, Jews, & religious dissidents.
The most affected by & vulnerable people to the Chinese, Manchu, & Russian imperialism efforts.
Korea
1494 treaty that divided those parts of the world not yet explored purposefully by Europeans between Portugal & Spain.
Treaty of Tordesillas
What was Martin Luther's controversial side?
He was antisemitic, writing that Jewish homes & synagogues be destroyed, their money confiscated, & their liberty curtailed.
A system of medicine detailing the makeup & workings of the human body.
Humorism
African chiefs would trade their own in exchange for what item with the Europeans?
Guns
In early modern Japan, if a person attempted to return home to their country of origin (Japan), what would happen to them?
They would be killed off.
First European explorer to reach India by sailing around Africa.
Vasco da Gama
This man died in 1384, but was declared a heretic by the Council of Constance, & his corpse was exhumed & burned.
John Wycliffe
This Enlightenment thinker believed in the "Spirit of Inequality" & the "Spirit of Extreme Equality".
Baron de Montesquieu
The Caribbean Islands were mainly known for growing what cash crop?
Sugar
The original capital for Chinese dynasties was where?
Nanjing
This European country mainly had colonies in the Caribbean & India in the 17th century.
France
The 3 types of reform Jan Hus wanted the Catholic Church to implement.
1. Public prayer in churches in the language of the people
2. Priests can marry
3. Elimination of indulgences & purgatory
Why did the Age of Enlightenment happen?
2/3 of slaves carried across the Atlantic Ocean ended up working up here.
Sugar plantations
The last feudal Japanese military government, ruling from 1603 to 1867, the end of which paved the way for the Meiji Restoration & the modernization of Japan.
Tokugawa Shogunate