Land-Based Empires
Technology that allowed land-based empires to expand
What are Gunpowder Empires?
3 examples of Maritime Empires
England/Britain
France
Spain
Portugal
Netherlands
Biological exchange between Africa, Asia, and Europe between 1450 and 1750
What was the Columbian exchange?
the kind of source we learn about slavery from?
Will vary a lot.
The wave of revolutions that started with the American revolution in 1776 and continued into the early 1800s in Europe and Latin America
What were the Atlantic revolutions?
Provided stability for the silk road between 1200 and 1700
What are land-based empires?
Initial purpose of exploration
What is trade with Asia?
Killed the majority of Native Americans
What was the impact of disease on Native Americans?
Trade route in which Africans were brought from Africa to the Americas as slave labor
What was the transatlantic slave trade?
Taxation without representation
Strict laws
Forced Monopolies
What were the causes of the American revolution?
The purpose of commissioning large religious monuments/artworks
What is legitimacy?
The 2 types of sponsors in the creation of Maritime Empires
What are government and joint stock companies?
Impact of the Columbian Exchange on the old world
What was the introduction of new crops?
Impact of colonization on Indigenous and African religion
What is syncretism/cultural blending?
Enlightenment ideas that influenced the Atlantic revolutions
What was:
natural rights/John Locke
separation of powers/Montesquieu
social contract theory/Rousseau
Systems of government with many officials focused on facilitating administration of territories and tax collection.
What is a bueracracy?
The effect of maritime empires on the prices of Asian goods like Sugar
The most profitable cash crop for plantations
(NOT cotton)
What is sugar?
2 examples of resistance to forced labor
Resentment towards aristocracy
3 estates
Poor only group that was taxed
What were the causes of the French revolution?
How land-based empires led to maritime exploration
What are taxes?
The type of forced labor where Spanish conquistadors were given an allotment of people to extract resources/generate wealth
What was the encomienda system?
The reason why the Native Americans were susceptible to Old World diseases.
What is a lack of biological immunity/exposure to diseases?
The primary reason African kings sold people into slavery
(Hint, what helped empires expand in this period)
What are gunpowder weapons?
Creoles resent power of Peninsulares
Desire for self-rule
Spain was weakened due to Napoleon's wars
What were the causes of creole revolutions/Latin American revolutions?