Turning Points
This turning point established Great Britain’s industrial dominance.
Industrial Revolution
The islands east of Indonesia and south of the Philippines had rich soil that was ideal for growing desired spices.
Spice Islands
What were the two systems of the Trans-Atlantic Slave-Labor system?
Middle Passage and Triangle Trade
What invention lead to the spread of renaissance ideas and growth of vernacular literature?
The Printing Press
Experimentation and the use of mathematics ultimately shaped what method?
Scientific Method
What was the switch from subsistence farming to commercialized farming?
Agricultural Revolution
Amsterdam
The _______ ________ was a popular system in Britain that allowed workers to work from home to produce finished goods (textiles).
The Cottage Industry
Which inventor discovered the Cotton Gin in 1793?
Eli Whitney
General principles about the way the world worked.
Natural Laws
The unprecedented expansion of trade and commerce.
Commercial Revolution
This port city was a cultural center consisting of theaters and coffeehouses was also home to the first fire insurance company.
London
The transfer of property or money received upon marriage.
Dowry
This economic system was designed to build the economic and political strength of a nation. Principle of exporting more than importing.
Mercantile System
Individuals like Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton challenged authority of traditional knowledge through new ideas and methods of what study?
Astronomy
An influx of precious metals from Spain into Europe lead to an inflationary period called the _____ _____________.
Price Revolution
What was the name of this source of gold in West Africa?
The Gold Coast
What contributed to the development of a consumer culture in Europe?
Overseas Products
This type of business venture raised large amounts of capital for international trade, investors would get dividends as a return on their investment.
Joint-Stock Company.
Descartes used this form of reasoning, which moved from general to specific.
Deductive Reasoning
The exchange of goods shifted the center of economic power in Europe from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic states, and brought the latter into the world economy.
The Columbian Exchange
Overtime, which 4 nations had colonial rivalries in the East Indies?
Great Britain, France, the Dutch, and Portugal.
Spain and Portugal divided newly discovered lands leading to increased Spain influence in the americas and a Portuguese maritime empire in Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Treaty of Tordesillas.
This process was used for the mass production of steel.
Bessemer Process
Anatomical and medical discoveries by physicians presented the body as an integrated system challenging what traditional theory?
Humoral Theory