Maritime Empires
Christopher's expedition to find a route to Asia was funded by this country
What is Spain?
The Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, and Mughal Empire were known as
What are the Gunpowder Empires?
a network of land based trade routes going as far as Europe to East China
What is the Silk Road?
The richest man of all time
Who is Mansa Musa?
Europe's first major unifying power
What is the Catholic Church?
The power a country had based on how much gold and silver it had
What is mercantilism?
Began to rise in 1299-1453
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Maritime trade routes connecting East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Southeast Asia, and East Asia
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
He opened new lands for exploration and colonization in the Americas and took 4 trips to the Americas
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Was located in Baghdad serving as a center where texts from Greece, Persia, and India were translated into Arabic and preserving knowledge
What is the House of Wisdom?
Investors combined their money to invest in a business connected to global trade
What are joint stock companies?
Buildings that showed off a rulers power and wealth
What is monumental architecture?
35 independent cities with very active merchant ports prospering from the 1300s-1600s.
What are the Swahili city-states?
Chinese admiral with 7 major voyages
Who is Zheng He?
Peter the Great moved his capital to this new city and boyars were required to move here to do government work so he could control and watch them
What is St. Petersburg?
Trading slaves across the Atlantic ocean between the late 1400s-1800s
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Islamization of enslaved Christian children
What is devsirme?
Winds that traveled in a certain direction during different times of the year
What are the monsoon winds?
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
a palace King Louis XlV built in order to keep an eye on the government and keep them close
What is Versailles?
European good were sold to Africa, Africa sends slaves to the Americas, the Americas send raw materials to Europe
What is the Triangular Trade?
Tax put on non-Muslims
What is the Jizya tax?
the scattering of a group of people from their homeland to other parts of the world
What is diaspora?
A Dutch explorer who made two attempts at finding the Northwest Passage in 1609 and 1610
Who is Henry Hudson?
This city was conquered marking the end of the Byzantine Empire
What is Constantinople?