Age of Exploration
This individual (re)discovered America (yes, it is easy)
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This individual wrote about the laws of gravity and described the world in terms of natural laws (and not spiritual force)
Who is Isaac Newton?
This crop, brought from the Americas, helped with the food scarcity in China.
What is the Sweet Potato?
This individual was a Venezuelan leader who liberated Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Name two types of advancements needed to allow Europe to explore the oceans of the world.
Caravel, Tacking (better sails), smaller crews, magnetic compass, better charts/maps
A Spanish colonial labor system that rewarded conquerors with land and an labor force
What were Encomiendas?
This individual introduced the idea of Conditional Consent
Who is John Locke?
A chieftain of the Chien-chou Juchen, a Manchurian tribe, and is considered to be the founding father of the Manchu state in China, later known as the Qing dynasty.
Nurhaci
This individual gave the "Grito de Delores" speech calling for Mexican independence.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
This European individual first reached the Indian Ocean.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
The European country that settled the eastern tip of South America
Who is Portugal?
This North American document was based off of Locke's ideas of conditional consent.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This port was setup to allow Europeans to trade goods with the Ming and Qing dynasties, but prevent cultural influence on their people.
What is Canton?
What is the Haitian Revolution?
de Gama and his crew were laughed at when arriving at this port to sell their goods.
What is Calicut?
The highest class in New Spain, with both parents origins tracing back to Spain
Who are Penisulares?
Enlightened ideals attacked this labor system thriving in the Atlantic world
What is slavery?
This was the military's central core for the Qing Dynasty
What are the Eight Banners?
The French National Assembly formally adopted this document in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The King and Queen who sponsored Columbus
Who is Ferdinand and Isabella?
The French explorer who founded Quebec and explored the surrounding region.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This individual declared that power should not be concentrated in the hands of any one individual
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This social group of the Qing Dynasty were lower in status, but often were allowed to accompany Chinese nobles at higher level events.
Who are Artists?
What are two reasons for the Latin American Revolutions of the early 1800s?
Various answers...enlightened ideals, French occupation of Spain, weakening Europe from war, etc.