Dora the Explorer
The Spanish term for "conqueror," soldier-explorers who conquered Native American cultures for the Spanish
conquistadors
Jamestown
Known as the Sun King; established absolutism for the French monarchy
Louis XIV
The conflict that started when Charles I attempted to arrest leaders of Parliament
The English Civil War
The term for the adoption of Western ideas, technology, and culture
Westernization
The explorer who accomplished the first European sea route to India by travelling around Africa
Vasco da Gama
An economic system in which most businesses are owned privately
The chief minister of young Louis XIII after the assassination of Henry IV
Cardinal Richelieu
The leader of Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War; later took the title of Lord Protector
Oliver Cromwell
The conflict started by Frederick II of Prussia when he attempted to take land from Maria Teresa the Hapsburg empress
The War of Austrian Succession
Portuguese explorer who led a voyage in 1519 to find a way to reach the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
A conflict that involved clashes between France and Britain over control of territory in the Ohio River valley
The Seven Years' War
The series of uprisings by the nobles, merchants, and lower classes during Louis XIV’s childhood
Fronde
The republic of England with Oliver Cromwell as leader
The Commonwealth
The Lutheran king of Sweden who intervened in the Thirty Years’ War, helping the Protestants to score some victories; known as the Father of Modern Warfare
Gustavus Adolphus
This man sponsored an exploration school in Portugal to train cartographers, sailors, and explorers
Prince Henry the Navigator
The economic theory that viewed the global economy as a competition between countries for a finite amount of wealth
List the five groups opposing the sovereignty of the monarch.
Church, nobility, representative bodies, towns, and universities
A government whose power is defined and limited by law
constitutional government
The economic system of Russia in which nobles controlled land and the workers under them
serfdom
Name three types of things exchanged between the Old and New Worlds in the Columbian Exchange.
plants, animals, humans, diseases, and technology
Give a general description of the triangular trade system
African slaves sent to the New World, plantation products sent to Europe, and manufactured goods or rum sent to Africa and the New World.
Describe how Louis XIV attempted to accomplish "one king, one law, one faith"
Louis established power over the nobles, attempted to standardize the laws of France with the Code Louis, and revoked the Edict of Nantes and established the Catholic Church as the only acceptable religion of France
The event that established a limited monarchy in England
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
The treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War
The Peace of Westphalia