Witness to the Past
Big Names from the Book
Little Names from the Book
Groups to Know from the Book
100
The English ruler who defeated the Spanish armada in 1588. (p. 386)
Who is Queen Elizabeth the I?
100
This Florentine thinker exemplifies the Renaissance personality because he was a painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, mathematician, and engineer. (p 381)
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This Chinese convert to Christianity traveled to Europe and showed chopstick techniques to King Louis XIV and cataloged Chinese books in the Oxford University library. (p. 469)
Who is Michael Alphonsus Shen?
100
This kingdom formed in the 17th century as a dependency of a Yoruba kingdom and grew powerful as a major supplier of slaves. (p 415)
What is Dahomey?
200
This was what King Alfonso I requested from the Portuguese in his letters. (p 409).
What is medical support (2 physicians, 2 apothecaries, 1 surgeon)?
200
This Swedish king was an excellent military strategist and creative administrator and took over much of Poland and part of Denmark. (p. 393)
Who is Gustavus Adolphus?
200
This Native American shaman pushed the Spanish out of the Yucatan territory in 1680 because there was so little respect. (p 436)
Who is Pope?
200
This Mesoamerican society was fairly prosperous and Columbus developed a favorable view of them, seeing them as innocent children of nature. (p 429)
What is the Tainos?
300
Spaniards deliberately sought to marry this type of Incan woman. (p 438)
What is a princess?
300
This English physician was among the first Enlightenment philosophers and supported empiricism while condemning absolute monarchy. (p. 398)
Who is John Locke?
300
This explorer crossed Panama and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain in 1513. (p 430)
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
300
These are the people of Guam that were the first to clash with Magellan on his pacific Explorations. (p 431)
Who are the Chamorro?
400
Late 16th century Confucian elite had this opinion of merchants. (p 468)
What is a bad opinion (greedy, self-serving, arrogant, pampered) but they were important?
400
This man was king of Kanem-Bornu at its height and reformed the local customs by imposing Islamic law. (p. 404)
Who is Idrus Aloma?
400
This Italian merchant claimed to have made several voyages to the Western Hemisphere and described two separate continents to a "new world" thus lending his name to the hemisphere. (p 430)
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
This seminomadic group of hunters and gatherers on the California coast was settled into towns to grow crops by the missionaries. (p 437)
Who are the Chumash?
500
Early Modern empires were known as ______ because they used things like cannons on ships, field artillery, and guns. (p 474)
What are gunpowder empires?
500
This Qing emperor tried to improve social conditions by freeing those in hereditary servile status to end slavery. (p. 465)
Who is Yongzheng?
500
This Igbo from Nigeria described the Middle Passage - stench of the hold, floggings for misconduct, bodies being thrown overboard, suicides, etc. (p. 414)
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
500
This Japanese Shogunate was replaced by the Tokugagwa because their government had been too decentralized and brutal warlords were causing problems. (p 471)
Who are the Ashikaga?
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