Gunpowder Empires
The Ottomans utilized Christian boys from conquered lands as these soldiers/government officials.
Janissaries.
Kings being given the ability and opportunity to rule by God is known as what concept?
Divine Right
The most common form of slavery in the new world was known as what?
Chattel Slavery
Which Enlightenment thinker initially articulated the concept of natural rights... Life, Liberty, and Property
John Locke
France's three estates consisted of which groups?
1st - Clergy
2nd - Nobility
3rd - Commoners
The Ottomans utilized this fairly new weapon to conquer the Byzantine city of Constantinople.
Cannons.
The Qing Dynasty enforced a specific haircut upon Han Chinese men known as the what?
Queue
Between which two regions was the Middle Passage "found"?
West Africa and the Americas
The sun was at the center of the solar system and not the Earth.
What factor predominantly led to the American Revolution.
A series of taxes that were deemed unfair by the American colonists.
Unfair taxation without representation.
The Mughals were a Muslim minority ruling over a _______ majority.
Hindu.
The Qing Dynasty was ruled by what ethnic group?
Manchu
Slaves transported along the Transatlantic slave trade were largely used for what purpose?
To grow cash crops
This concept was at the basis for all thought during the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution.
Rationalism
Describe one way in which the US Government is inspired by Enlightenment ideas.
Various answers.
What was the Jizya tax?
A tax on non-Muslims.
What does "L'etat, c'est moi" mean in English?
"I am the state"
Give two reasons as to why Africans became a targeted population to be used as slaves.
Permission from the Pope
Ottomans cut off supply of Slavic slaves to Europe
Pre-existing connections with West African coastal kingdoms
Dying off of Native Americans largely from European diseases
What is a social contract?
An agreement between a government and its people that instills power within the government and rights within the people.
What rank of the Casta System was Simon Bolivar a member of?
Creole.
While Muslims in both the Ottoman and Mughal empires were predominantly Sunni, Muslims in the Safavid empire were largely followers of what branch of Islam?
Shia
What is Peter the Great's greatest achievement as the Russian tsar?
Modernization of Russia into a European power.
Name one other form of coerced labor that was used in the New World.
Mit'a System
Indentured Servitude
Hacienda
Encomienda
Describe Laissez-faire economics.
The government shall be hands off in the economy and allow private citizens to make their own choices with their capital.
While the American Revolution was mostly led by American colonists, and the French Revolution by French citizens, the Haitian Revolution was mostly led by what group?
African slaves or former African slaves.