Empires
Significant Events
European Exploration
Exchange/Trade
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100

The Ottoman Turks took over this former Empire

What is the Byzantine Empire?

100

The Protestant Reformation was led by this Catholic.

Who is Martin Luther?

100

These are the 3 main motivation for European Exploration.

What is Gold, God, and Glory?

100

Chicken, cattle, horses, goats and other livestock came from this part of the world in the Columbian Exchange.

What is the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia)?

100

These are the 3 West African Empires.

What are the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
200

This concept of cutting off from the rest of the world is what led to the downfall of Ming China and Tokugawa Japan.

What is isolationism?

200

The Renaissance supported ideas that focused on this concept, rather than spiritual and religious ideals

What is humanism/realism?

200

This economic concept is when a country's power is based off of its wealth, usually measured in gold and silver.

What is mercantilism?

200

In Triangular Trade, which products are sent from the Americas to Europe?

What are raw materials?

200

This revolution led to the first nation to ever completely outlaw slavery.

What is the Haitian Revolution?

300

This Russian Emperor led many reform movements during his rule.

Who is Peter the Great?

300

The Spanish Inquisition was led by this group of people; their goal was to purify the Iberian Peninsula.

Who were the Spanish Catholics?

300

This is the main cause of the rapid decline of Native populations in the Americas

What is disease?

300

This is the exchange of goods between the Old World and the New World

What is the Columbian Exchange?

300

This man led Ming China on many voyages where he expanded trade and showed China's power.

Who is Zheng He?

400

Disease and foreign invasion was common in the downfall of these 3 Empires.

What is the Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires?

400

The invention of this helped information and ideas spread around the world faster and cheaper.

What is the printing press?

400

The food from the New World led to better diets in the Old World, which led to this happening in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

What is a rise in population?

400

This is the main reason Africans were enslaved and forced to the Americas for labor.

What is the Natives were dying from disease/Europeans had no one to do the work?

400

This man's nickname is the "Renaissance Man"

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?

500

This leader and his city is what led the Mali Empire to thrive.

Who is Mansa Musa and the city of Timbuktu?

500

During the Scientific Revolution, Copernicus and Galileo discovered and supported this theory, that the sun is the center of the universe, not the earth.

What is the heliocentric theory?

500

This system set up by Europeans led Natives to be enslaved and forced to work on their own land.

What is the encomienda system?

500

These are the main categories of the class system set up by Spanish in the new world.

Who are the Spaniards, Creoles, Mestizos, and Native and Africans?

500

This type of government is when a monarch has total control and power over the government.

What is absolutism?

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