Belief systems
What is Buddhism
The Sahara continues to grow which reduces the amount of available farmland. This is called
True or False:
True
The exchange of people, plants, animals, ideas, etc. between the "old world" (Europe) and the "new world" (North and South America)
It is the ultimate example of cultural diffusion
What is the Columbian Exchange
The golden age of the Western Empire
It began in Italy because of the great economies, they controlled the Mediterranean trade.
What is the Renaissance
What is Hinduism
What is the Bantu Migration
The 3 main pre-Columbian societies in the Americas
What are the Maya, Aztec and Inca people
The route taken by the Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade, The Triangle Trade or The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This was a religious revolution that challenged the Catholic Church and led to further division of Christianity.
-It was caused because the Europeans were disagreeing with the Catholic Church and how they were doing things
The Key leaders that we would see are:
-Martin Luther (95 Theses), Henry VIII (separated from the Catholic church), John Calvin (god already knows where people are headed in the afterlife)
What is the Protestant Reformation
What is Judaism
Three of the greatest African civilizations all developed in West Africa
What is Ghana, Mali, Songhai
These people lived in Mesoamerica and established a large distributed empire
Who are the Aztec people
The idea that colonies exist only to make the Mother Country (i.e.- Spain and Portugal) wealthy.
Spain and Portugal tightly controlled trade with their colonies in the Americas in order to make money.
Europeans would take raw materials (like cotton) from their American colonies and sell finished products (like clothing) back to the colonies.
What is Mercantilism
A period in European history when nations were governed by absolute monarchs (Kings)
An absolute monarch did not share political power with anyone, they believed that they received the Divine Right. They also believed their power was unlimited. They made laws with no regard to the people
Two important monarchs would be:
Peter the Great (absolute monarch of Russia)
- westernized/modernized Russia, he also built the Russian Empire by fighting for territorial expansion
Louis XIV (absolute monarch of France)
- He demanded loyalty from nobles at court, he build the Palace of Versailles (which cost an astronomical amount of money)
What is the Age of Absolutism
What is Christianity
What is the Indian Ocean Trade
Who are the Inca people
Two European countries that first began the voyages of exploration
What is Spain and Portugal
This was a sudden and dramatic change in how people viewed the world, science and reason were used to explain how the world worked.
Key figures: Copernicus, Galileo, Issac Newton, etc.
This resulted in the spread of new ideas throughout Europe, and it challenged the traditional authority of the Catholic Church
What is the Scientific Revolution
Follows the Qur’an (Koran or Quran)—seen as the very words of God
What is Islam
The languages that combine to make the Swahili language
What is Bantu, Arabic, and Persian
The Spanish Conquistadors that conquered the Aztecs and the Inca
Who is Hernan Cortez (The Aztecs) and Francisco Pizarro (The Inca)
The key explorers that helped the Age of Exploration
Who is
A period in which reason/logic were used to understand and improve society
Philosophers believed that the society could be improved by using reason and natural law. Governments could receive their authority from the people and not from god.
Key people: John Locke (people have the right to life,liberty, and property), and Thomas Hobbes (Humans are driven by self-interest and a desire for power), Baron de Montesquieu (believed power should be separated), Voltaire (everyone is entitled to freedom of religion and speech), Rousseau (believed society is a social contract, working for a common good)
What is The Age of Enlightenment