Early Modern Empires
This island empire, which was ruled by a military dictatorship under the Shogun, was isolationist throughout much of the early modern period.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
Besides crops, animals, people, and ideas, this was, unfortunately for some, also exchanged via transatlantic networks of this era.
What are diseases?
This is the name of the groups that split away from the Catholic Church during the Reformation.
What is Protestant?
According to historian Alfred W. Crosby, the Spaniards were able to defeat the Aztecs so easily because of this:
What is disease?
This empire had the most colonial holdings in the Americas during the 17th Century.
What is Spain?
This man was both King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor during 1500s.
Who is Charles V?
Cocoa (chocolate) was originally found in this world zone:
What is the New World (Americas)?
This war broke out in Europe following the Reformation, lasting from 1618 and 1648 and involving most European empires.
What is the Thirty Years War?
It is believed that up to this percent of American Indians living in the valley of Mexico died as a result of European-carried diseases.
What is 90 percent?
This is a form of government where power is concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, typically a monarch, who holds total and indivisible authority.
An example would be Louis XIV of France, who ruled in the 17th and early 18th centuries and believed he had a divine right to rule.
What is absolutism?
This empire was the powerhouse of the early modern era, controlling much of the Mediterranean coastline through the effective use of gunpowder technoligies.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Sugar was originally found in this world zone:
What is the Old World (Afroeurasia).
This king, in order to marry Anne Boleyn, split away from the Catholic Church and formed the Anglican Church.
Who is Henry VIII?
Due to the Great Dying and resistance of surviving indigenous people, the success of American plantations came to rely on this.
What is slave labor?
This crop, brought to the Americas aboard Christopher Columbus's ships in 1492, would become one of the most profitable crops grown in the Americas - particularly in Brazil and the Caribbean.
What is sugar?
This is what we call an empire that is dependent upon ocean or sea routes. Examples include the British, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese.
What is Maritime?
This animal and food was named after the merchants who sold it, despite having originated in the Americas.
What is the turkey?
This German scholar and monk is credited with starting the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Who is Martin Luther?
Between 1400 and 1600, this region initially saw an increase in population due to the introduction of new staple crops; however, by 1800, the population would decline by 22 million due largely to the transatlantic slave trade.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
This economic system prioritized the accumulation of gold and silver by maximizing exports and minimizing imports. It was used by European nations, including France and England, to exploit their colonies.
What is mercantilism?
These neighboring empires were known for both their shared Muslim identities and their use of gunpowder technologies in warfare.
What are the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires?
While the bubonic plague never made its way to the Americas in the early modern period, this highly contagious disease did so and wiped out millions of indigenous people following European encounter.
What is smallpox, influenza, measles, tuberculosis? (any of the above are correct)
This is the practice of selling papers to shorten the time that a deceased person languishes in purgatory; it is also one of the main complaints about corruption in the early modern church.
What is an indulgence?
Between 1400-1800, the the population of this region saw a decline of approximately 17 million people - the most of any region in the world.
What is Latin America?
This event, which many mark as the triggering event of the Thirty Years War, was when Protestant town leaders threw Catholic messengers out the window for bringing word that they had to convert or leave town.
What is the Defenestration at Prague?