Maritime Empires (Unit 4)
Concept of treating slaves as personal property
Government officials who kept a a piece of the taxes collected
Major overland routes used for trading
What is the Silk Roads?
He was the first European explorer to sat sail a route to India
what is Vasco Da Gama?
An empire locate in the heart of the silk roads in 1294
What is the Mongol empire?
European reasoning of exploration
What is the three gold god glory? What is a new route to Asia?
The division of orthodox and protest Christians
What is schism?
This spread of disease caused the collapse of the mongol empire
What is the Black Death?
He inspired the Portuguese to go south through the ocean to find a route to Asia
Main three gunpowder empires
What is Ottoman empire, Safavid empire, Mughal empire?
Investing money into trade
What is a joint stock company?
Name 3 things gunpowder empires did to maintain control
What is Bureaucracy government, collected taxes, art and architecture?
The Silk Roads connected these three continents
What is Africa, Europe, Asia?
This person strengthened the Ottomans navy and conquered Constantinople in 1453
What is Sultan Mehmed II?
Went corrupted because of indulgences where people bought there way into heaven
What is the Catholic churches?
Set these up instead of conquering territory
What is trade post empire?
These 2 groups where in many fights against the Catholics
These were pit stops across the silk roads
What is Caravanserai?
In the middle east, Shai Muslim but killed Sunni Muslim
What is Safavid Empire?
People were given land, but had to pay for slaves and workers
What is haciendas?
Luther's "break up letter" that made the official split between the Lutheran church and the catholic church
European Christians traveled here during the crusades wars in 1096 - 1291
What is Jerusalem?
The elite military force during land based empires
What is Janissaries?
Located in Persian Diaspora, this was the most favorable maritime trade location in 953 - 1513
What is Kilwa Sultanate?