VOCAB (a)
A device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter that mainly uses text in the form of books.
What is the Printing Press
The rebirth of classical knowledge beginning in Italy around 1350.
What is the Renaissance
The 5 major world religions?
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism.
The spread of fleas on rats that were on trading ships?
What is the Black Plague?
A system of transatlantic in the 16th century between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangle System.
A farming technique involving cutting small steps to terraces of land into the side of a mountain to create planting spaces.
What is the Terrace farming
What were the primary goods traded along the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
What is Gold, Ivory, Salt, and Slaves
The era in Europe with a new style of painting, sculptures, and architecture?
What is the Renaissance?
The meaning of "rebirth?"
What is the Renaissance?
An Ancient device for record keeping
An outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time.
What is Epidemic
What is an ethnic faith?
The main cause for the disease in the Indigenous populations after Europeans began to land in the New World?
What is Smallpox?
Lived in Andes Mountains with very little access to flat land to farm.
What is the Incas
The exchange of disease, ideas, foods, crops, and population between the New World and the Old World following the the voyage to the Americas in 1492.
What is the Colombian Exchange
A philosophy of life that considered the welfare of humankind rather than the welfare of a supposed God or gods to be paramount importance.
What is Humanism
Religions that can be found around the world?
What is universal faith
Created to grow corn, beans, squash, and raise animals. Grew over 88 million pounds of corn a year.
What are the Aztecs.
What is the Printing Press.
A significant change in the characteristics of a population over time. Includes factors such as birth rates, death rates, migration farmers, or change in social norms.
What is Demographic shifts
A form of labor where a person is contracted to work without a pay for a specific number of years.
What is Indentured Servants.
The negative effects of trade?
What is unsustainable freshwater withdrawals, and monsoon winds.
The negative affect of the triangle trade?
What is the "Great Dying"
A system of transatlantic trade between Europe, Africa, and Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade system.