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vocabulary
100
What countries participated in the European movement towards imperialist expansion?
What is the Dutch, the British, the Portuguese, and the Spanish
100
What was the most valuable trade commodity in this time period? What countries produced it? What countries used it for exchange?
What is silver; produced by Spanish colonies and Japan; used by the Chinese as currency.
100
What was the social style that followed in the wake of the Scientific Revolution?
What is baroque.
100
Name some key figures of the Scientific Revolution and their philosophies.
What is Copernicus and Galileo developed geocentricity; Newton developed the laws of gravitation and modern calculus.
100
What is a person of mixed European and black descent, especially one living in the Caribbean?
What is Creole.
200
In what level of the ruling system were overseas trading companies?
What is they were extensions of the governments and monarchies residing in their home countries. They were allowed to form militaries, control the economy, create laws, and tax.
200
How was Spain affected by the silver trade?
What is they did not grow richer and actually began to decline as an empire because of the Chinese use of silver as currency.
200
What were the grievances of workers at Potosí?
What is mining conditions were horrendous and mortality rates were high.
200
How did religion play a role in the Ottoman Empire?
What is long conflict between the Sunni and Shia sects. In Anatolia, most conquered Christians converted to Islam. Jewish refugees from Spain had more opportunities in the Ottoman Empire. Devshirme was also a practice.
200
This man sailed from Europe as a member of the very first Portuguese expedition to explore the East Indies.
What is Ferdinand Magellan.
300
How was the Russian Empire similar to and different from the Spanish and the British?
What is with imperial expansion, Russians became a smaller proportion of the overall population. Rich agricultural lands helped make Russia a great power by the 1700s. Expansion made Russia a military state and reinforced the autocracy. Finally, the Russian Empire remained intact until 1991.
300
How did the European legal system affect the formation of corporations?
What is the Enlightenment affected the laws of Europe to be more practical and allowed for groups of people to be treated as a single entity.
300
What impact did the Scientific Revolution have on society?
What is it led to people questioning their faiths for the first time in several centuries, rearranging societal traditions and leading to the movement of intellectualism.
300
Explain the features of the American indigenous culture that persisted under Spanish colonial rule.
What is mestizos were still looked down upon and seen as illegitimate. Many worked as artisans.
300
This is the name of the sailing ship effective for sailing during monsoon winds.
What is a dhow.
400
Which conflict resulted in the loss of a unified Catholic Europe?
What is the Thirty Years' War?
400
Explain the economic foundation of the Spanish colonial rule in Mexico and Peru. How did it shape changes in society?
What is Spanish conquest benefitted only the Spanish. Indians were exploited as the Spanish took the top of the social hierarchy. Mestizo people intermarried with the Spanish to avoid facing the hardships of the pure Indians. Spaniards self-governed and created wealthy, urbanized, and populous regions in the West Hemisphere.
400
What was the rise of the mestizo and how were the indigenous people treated?
What is the mestizo was a mixed race of Spaniards and indigenous peoples. Many women married Spanish men to increase their class status and avoid being treated poorly.
400
What allowed for the rapid expansion of Christianity in the Americas by 1700?
What is the discouragement of local religion, denser population centers, syncretism, and social style encouraged most to convert by 1700.
400
This was the empirical and inductive approach to science developed by Francis Bacon.
What is scientific method.
500
Why were British settler colonies in North America far less prominent than the colonies established by the Spanish and the Portuguese?
What is the British began later than other countries. They developed traditions of self-government, unlike the elaborate bureaucracy of the Spanish. British civil war distracted the country from focusing on colonies. Finally, Britain was a Protestant nation.
500
How did Christianity promote economic expansion of Christianity in the Americas by 1700?
What is the search for riches in places like Africa and the Americas facilitated trade and commerce.
500
What changed the status of the middle class during the Protestant Revolutions?
What is the Protestant idea of equality before God allowed for people of different vocations to be encouraged, so the urban middle class grew.
500
How did cultural changes from the Scientific Revolution affect Europe?
What is it undermined authority and established academics as separate from the church and state.
500
What was the movement based on a rational approach to seek knowledge from established facts?
What is the Chinese Philosophy of Kaozheng.
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