Rigid social class system / need for stability and order / similar to Japanese Feudalism
Feudalism
100
What were the two main things that these kingdoms traded?
salt and gold
100
Social and economic collapse / break down of feudalism / end of the middle ages
The Black Plague
100
Need for a new trade route to Asia after Constantinople falls to Ottomans / desire to find riches and spices / spread Christianity / curiosity about the world that was stimulated from Renaissance
Motives for European exploration
100
Located in present day Mexico and central / highly advanced and unified under one leader / taken over by the Spanish and Cortes
Aztec Empire
200
Feudalism / decentralized political system / powerful Catholic Church / Gothic cathedrals-tall spires and stained glass windows
Medieval Europe
200
Early African trading civilizations-salt and gold / eastern Africa / cultural diffusion-Christianity
Axum and Kush
200
humanism and individualism / rebirth of the ideals of Greece and Rome / secularism
The Renaissance
200
Columbus discovers the Americas / Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the world / de Gama and Dias travel around Africa to get to Asia
European Explorers
200
Located in present day Peru / highly advanced / taken over by the Spanish and Pizarro
Inca Empire
300
Stressed honor and loyalty / similar to the code of Bushido / code followed by medieval knights
Chivalry
300
Early African trading civilizations-salt and gold / Western Africa / Cultural diffusion-Islam from North Africa
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
300
"ends justify the means" / interests of the state and the leader are most important / The Prince
Machiavelli
300
first slaves were indians but too many died from disease / Africans replace the indians / Arabs, African and Europeans involved in the slave trade
Slavery in the New World
300
Between Europe, Africa, and the Americas / Middle Passage
Triangular Trade
400
Code of Bushido / Rigid social class system / Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai
Japanese Feudalism
400
Moved Muslims from Mali to Mecca
Mansa Musa
400
Martin Luther / protest against the Catholic Church / end of religious unity in Europe
The Protestant Reformation
400
Spread out over parts of Eastern Europe and the middle east / Islamic Empire / Suleiman the Lawgiver
The Ottoman Empire
400
Economic Theory developed and practiced by European countries during the 1500 - 1700s / Main objective-increase the amount of gold and silver a nation possesses-favorable balance of trade / led to an unequal trade relationship between the parent countries and the colonies
Mercantilism
500
Isolation / forbade contact with foreigners / ended in 1868
Tokugawa Shogunate
500
Spread from Asia to Eastern Europe / Tributes and taxes given to the Khans / isolated Russia for several centuries
The Mongol Empire
500
Council of Trent / Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits / Reaffirm Catholic doctrine but reform a little
Counter Reformation / Catholic Reformation
500
Chinese exploration / ended because of Confucian beliefs about trade / Chinese isolation after exploration ends
Zheng He
500
Practiced in the Americas and enforced by Europeans / exploited the native workers / forced labor