Unit 1
United the Mongol tribes, became "the Great Khan", and conquered a massive land empire
Who is Genghis Khan?
Growth of wealth and trade led to this rebirth, when merchants wanted to showcase their wealth
What is the Italian Renaissance?
Protestant reformer who believed in predestination
Who is John Calvin?
Gunpowder Empires
What are the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire?
Forced King Louis to come to Paris
What is the Women's March (on Versailles)?
Helped increase wages for lower classes , and weakened the feudal system in Europe as a result of widespread death.
What is the Black Death?
The complaints Martin Luther had against the Catholic church, posted in Wittenberg, Saxony (Germany)
What are the 95 theses?
Papal decree dividing the (new) world into spheres of influence
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?
Conquered, and killed King Montezuma and the Aztec
Who is Hernan Cortes?
In his 1762 book, The Social Contract, he argued that society corrupted people’s natural goodness and needed to be carefully regulated. Promoted the idea of the General Will
Who is Jean-Jaques Rousseau?
Traveled through West Africa to Mecca, spending his immense wealth and building Islamic mosques. Helped made Timbuktu a trade and Islamic center.
Who is Mansa Musa (Kingdom of Mali)?
Humanism, secularism, materialism, individualism, realism, intellectualism
What are themes of the Renaissance?
The Peace of Augsburg (1555) granted this to the princes in the Holy Roman Empire
What is choose their own sect of Christianity/ religion (Protestant or Catholic).
Religious toleration also acceptable
Fearing they would lose traditional practices, these nations isolated following European contact in the 14th and 15th centuries
What are China and Japan?
Agreement among the Third Estate to not leave until they have a new constitution. Renamed themselves the National Assembly
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Defeated Harold I to become King of England during the Norman Conquest
Who is William the Conquerer?
The Italian Renaissance sought to replicate these classics
What is Ancient (Classical) Greece and Rome?
Fabulous palace outside of Paris, that showed the strength and wealth of the Sun King
What is the Palace of Versailles?
Spanish absolute monarch that fought in numerous wars, and lost the Spanish Armada to Queen Elizabeth
Who is Philip II?
Napoleon's attempt for European economic reform, aimed to limit trade with England
What is the Continental System?
The Kievan Rus traded along this, to build economic and religious ties with the Byzantine Empire
What is the River Road?
This officially made England protestant (following the reign of a Catholic queen)
What is the Elizabethan Settlement?
Set up a colony in modern day South Africa, had the ability to wage war and issue money. Participated in the slave trade
What is the Dutch East India Trading Company?
Expanded religious tolerance through expanding legal codes, instituted the Devshirme system and a Janissary army. Known as the lawgiver
Who is Sultan Suleyman/ Suleiman the Great or Magnificent
Conducted the "concert of Europe"
What is the Congress of Vienna OR Who is Klemens von Metternich?