Commercial Revolution
The Dutch East India Company made the majority of their profits in [region]
Southeast Asia (especially, the Spice Islands)
The first significant presence of Islam in America came from
African slaves (10% were Muslim)
Term for Russian peasants and runaway serfs who were skilled fighters that lived in modern-day Ukraine, were sometimes hired as mercenaries by Russian monarchs, and sometimes fought against Russian monarchal rule
Cossacks
Qing were a(n) [ethnicity] dynasty that ruled over the majority [ethnicity] in China.
The most significant change to the global economy in this period
the inclusion of the Western Hemisphere
One good from the Caribbean that financed fortunes in European countries in the 1700s
sugar or rum
The effect of the Protestant-Catholic split on settlement in North America
The desire for religious freedom was a major driver for settlement of North America
Maroon Wars
King of France known for his strict, absolutist rule
Louis XIV
This European economic class expanded during this period
middle
[Term] gave certain European merchants the exclusive right to trade in a certain region or product.
Monopolies
Protestants William of Orange and Mary took the throne of England from Catholic James II with no bloodshed
Glorious Revolution
Mughal ruler who ended jizya tax and was very religiously tolerant
Akbar
Mercantilism eventually gave rise to this economic policy
capitalism
improved diets due to the Columbian Exchange
the first slave revolt in today’s USA; enslaved Africans and white indentured servants revolted
Term: Many women in the Ottoman sultan’s residence would promote their own children as heirs to the throne, making them socially and politically influential with the sultan
Harem politics
In the Americas, new social systems were based on these 2 characteristics.
birthplace & ethnicity