Empires
The Ottoman Turks took over this former Empire
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The Protestant Reformation was led by this Catholic.
Who is Martin Luther?
These are the 3 main motivation for European Exploration.
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
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)?
These are the 3 West African Empires.
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?
The Renaissance supported ideas that focused on this concept, rather than spiritual and religious ideals
What is humanism/realism?
This economic concept is when a country's power is based off of its wealth, usually measured in gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
In Triangular Trade, which products are sent from the Americas to Europe?
What are raw materials?
This revolution led to the first nation to ever completely outlaw slavery.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This Russian Emperor led many reform movements during his rule.
Who is Peter the Great?
The Spanish Inquisition was led by this group of people; their goal was to purify the Iberian Peninsula.
Who were the Spanish Catholics?
This is the main cause of the rapid decline of Native populations in the Americas
What is disease?
This is the exchange of goods between the Old World and the New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This man led Ming China on many voyages where he expanded trade and showed China's power.
Who is Zheng He?
Disease and foreign invasion was common in the downfall of these 3 Empires.
What is the Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires?
The invention of this helped information and ideas spread around the world faster and cheaper.
What is the printing press?
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?
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?
This man's nickname is the "Renaissance Man"
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This leader and his city is what led the Mali Empire to thrive.
Who is Mansa Musa and the city of Timbuktu?
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?
This system set up by Europeans led Natives to be enslaved and forced to work on their own land.
What is the encomienda system?
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?
This type of government is when a monarch has total control and power over the government.
What is absolutism?