Origins of the Modern World
Indian Ocean Trade
Age of Exploration
15th century Europe
World Religions
100
A rationale and story line that purports to explain not just the modern world, but why it is defined by primarily European features.
What is the Rise of the West?
100
Indian Ocean city-states maintained their independence and refused to use weapons or warfare because they survived on
What is trade?
100
In 1492 he sailed the ocean blue.
What is Christopher Columbus?
100
a 15th century Friar who worked with a team of Nahua interviewers to create a history of the Aztec people written in the Nahua language.
What is Bernardino de Sahagun?
100
The primary religion in Europe in the 14th century.
What is Catholic Christianity.
200
A way of thinking that sees Europe as the source of all good things and advancements in world history.
What is Eurocentrism?
200
During the fourteenth century there were eight interlinked world trading zones in what Marks has called a "polycentic" world system. They included the East Asia subsystem, the Middle East-Mongolian subsystem, the European subsystem, the Indian Ocean subsystem, the Arabian Sea subsystem, the Mediterranean subsystem, the Southeast Asian subsystem and...
What is the African subsystem?
200
This civilization had its capitol city in the middle of Lake Texcoco in a city called Tenochtitlan.
What is the Aztec or Mexica?
200
A term historians use to refer to the 13th and 14th century rise of humanism in Europe. It literally means "rebirth" and refers to a European intellectual curiosity about the knowledge of the ancient world.
What is the Renaissance?
200
The head of the Catholic Church in Rome.
What is the Pope?
300
Geographically large political units ruled and controlled by a single ruling elite in which the subject population offered up their agricultural surplus to the ruler and landowning elites in the form of taxes and rents.
What is Empire?
300
A system of trading that had multiple major trade zones each centered on one or two major cities within the zone.
What is a polycentric world trading system?
300
An Andean Empire founded 1438 by Pachakuti.
What is the Inca Empire?
300
A Portuguese Prince who lived from 1394-1460 and who promoted exploration of the seas around Africa in hope of finding a sea route to the Indian Ocean trade zone.
What is Prince Henry the Navigator?
300
Was the warrior god and sun god, the primary god of the Aztecs to which the majority of human sacrifice was address.
What is Huizalpochtli?
400
The agricultural revolution gave rise to these two defining characteristics of civilization.
What is cities and writing?
400
Because it was transmitted through vectors that were the same as trade routes, and was made possible because of the increasing world trade in the Indian Ocean, it became a menace to world populations in the 14th and 15th centuries.
What is the Black Plague?
400
These city states were kept in the Aztec empire through fear. They were used to provide sacrificial victims and taxes in the form of agricultural products.
What is atepetl?
400
An intellectual movement begun around 1350 in Italy by scholars who opposed scholasticism.
What is humanism?
400
They were revered and kept in the public square of the capitol city Cuzco during the day time so all could recall the importance of the empire and its rulers.
What is Inca mummies?
500
Today, as in 1400, more than 90% of the world's people live in this percentage of the Earth's land.
What is 7%?
500
A system of trading that consists of interactions between many parts of the world and as a system was greater than any one part.
What is a world system.
500
Andean kin groups of the Inca Empire that worked the land in several adjacent ecological zones as a hedge against crop failure in any one zone.
What is allyu?
500
A treaty signed between the Portuguese and Spanish in 1494 that divided their colonial rights, giving half of the world to Portugal and half to Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
Ordinary people believed that, in addition to their ancestors, these spirits inhabited the natural world.
What is waka'a
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