Between 1500 and 1900, this a global cooling event that created demand for furs and wools.
What is the Little Ice Age.
100
A class within the Spanish Sociedad de Castas that includes people of mixed European and Native American heritage.
What is mestizo.
100
Building constructed during the height of the Mughal Empire in India, it was used as a tomb for the beloved wife of Shah Jahan.
What is the Taj Mahal.
100
A ruler of the Mughal Empire of India from 1556-1650, his main efforts focused on creating a bridge between Hindu and Islam subjects, even creating a hybrid religion called Din-i-Ilahi.
Who was Akbar the Great.
100
This empire became a factor for European overseas exploration when they began to charge heavy taxes on European merchants who wished to use the Silk Road.
What is the Ottoman Empire.
200
Spain's initial success in colonization of the Americas was due in large part to Native American lack of immunities to this illness.
What is small pox.
200
A system in which people from Europe promised to work for a certain amount of time in exchange for their paid passage to the New World. Later this system would be extended to people outside of Europe following the end of slavery.
What is indentured servitude.
200
This man asserted the position that the earth and all other bodies revolved around the sun. He came under legal pressure after he published this theory. The Catholic Church placed him under house arrest.
Who was Galileo Galilei.
200
Dynasty that replaced the Ming in 1644 and ruled China until 1911. They were not ethnically Chinese, but descended from a nomadic group in Manchuria.
What is Qing Dynasty.
200
A commercial venture that spurred exploration by bringing together many investors in order to minimize the risks and costs of colonization. The British and Dutch East India Companies are prominent examples.
What is a joint-stock-company.
300
Peru and other areas of Central and South America contained large resources of this precious metal, found in locations such as Potosi.
What is silver.
300
With growing emphasis on patriarchy in China, this practice restricting the movements of upper class women eventually began to be adopted in lower classes.
What is foot binding.
300
Also known as the Age of Reason; philosophers such as John Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu argued that reason and logic should be applied to government.
What is the Enlightenment.
300
Policy enacted by the Tokugawa shogun of Japan in which all European merchants and missionaries were no longer allowed to trade in Japan.
What is the Closed Country Policy.
300
A feudal-like system that used forced labor, established by the Spanish in the New World to ensure a cheap labor supply for plantations and mines.
What is the encomienda system.
400
As part of the Columbian Exchange, livestock was carried this direction across the Atlantic.
What is West.
400
The term given to the group of Russian pioneers who moved to remote areas of Siberia in order to help the government claim it.
What are cossacks.
400
As a Jesuit scholar, he traveled to Ming China in the late 1500s in an effort by the Catholic Church to convert the peoples of East Asia to Christianity.
Who was Matteo Ricci.
400
Of the three Islamic Gunpowder Empires, this one that centered on modern-day Iran was unusual in that it promoted Shi'a Islam, rather than Sunni Islam.
What is the Safavid Empire.
400
In 1521, this explorer sailing for Spain, set out to circumnavigate the world. He died in the Philippines, but his crew completed the journey.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan.
500
In order to extract silver from ore, it is also necessary to mine this element, found at Huancavelica.
What is mercury.
500
In the Ottoman Empire these were legally protected religious communities of non-Muslims.
What are millets.
500
A belief system that recognizes that a powerful god played a role in creation of the universe, but asserts that the same god does not involve himself in the functioning of the universe.
What is deism.
500
Russian czar from 1628-1725, he embarked on a grand reform in which Russia would adopt the technology, habits, dress, and institutions of western Europeans.
Who was Peter the Great.
500
A new economic theory adopted by many European nations with the goal of maintaining a favorable trade balance- whereby a country exports more than it imports.