Important People
The New World
The Scientific Revolution
Technological Innovation
Social Change
100
The Aztec Emperor conquered by Cortes.
Who is Montezuma?
100
This woman was a native person who helped Cortes.
Who is Doña Maria?
100
The concept that the sun was at the center of the solar system and that the planets revolved around it.
What is heliocentricism?
100
The fall of this city, in 1453, signaled the end of the Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
100
According to Kant, this comes from maturity.
What is enlightenment?
200
This person was an explorer who conquered the Incan empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
This man led an expedition to the New World, and was ultimately named "Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca" by the Spanish crown.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
This novel, by Miguel de Cervantes, is a founding work of western literature.
What is Don Quixote?
200
When the sun, not the earth, is at the center of the universe.
What is heliocenterism?
200
This form of military replaced mercenaries in the 16-17th centuries in Europe.
What is a standing army?
300
This astronomer theorized elliptical planetary motion.
Who is Kepler?
300
This is the capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
The rhetorical and visual technique of a distorted projection involving the viewer to see the image through a specific view.
What is anamorphoses?
300
The overthrow of James II of England during this revolution is seen by some historians as the beginning of parliamentary democracy.
What is the Glorious Revolution (1688)?
300
This English inspired Spanish reputation for brutality toward native Americans, including the repression of native religions and forced labor.
What is the black legend?
400
This person built the palace of Versailles
Who is Louis XIV?
400
An institution for the recruitment of labor, which gave the Spanish colonialists, as the settlers, the right to force natives to work.
What is encomienda?
400
This Renaissance humanist was convicted of treason and executed for opposing Henry VIII's split from the Catholic Church.
Who is Thomas More?
400
As European states grew more powerful, they began to increasingly regulate trade and commerce, usurping authority from these medieval institutions.
What are guilds?
400
This is an urban-based, mostly commercial, middle class ranging group of people, from small-scale merchants to financiers.
What is the bourgeoisie?
500
This is the founder of the Mughal Empire.
Who is Babur?
500
This slavery-dependent zone of commerce spanned at least four continents (depending on how you count them).
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
The invention of this technology proved to be a catalyst for the Protestant Revolution.
What is the printing press?
500
This economic innovation was a means of subcontracting cheap labor from rural regions in order to circumvent the urban guilds.
What is the “putting out system”?
500
This system of economic organization aimed to increase and maintain state power at the expense of rival states.
What is mercantilism?
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