Power & Political Control
This system organized medieval Europe around land and loyalty.
What was feudalism?
This disease killed millions in Europe during the 1300s.
What was the Black Death?
This empire conquered Constantinople in 1453.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
This exchange connected the Old World and New World.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
This reformer wrote the 95 Theses.
Who was Martin Luther?
In feudal Japan, this leader held real political power.
Who was the shogun?
The plague weakened feudalism because it caused this economic problem.
What was a labor shortage?
The Aztec and Inca civilizations were located in this hemisphere.
What was the Western Hemisphere?
This African kingdom grew wealthy from the gold-salt trade.
What was Mali?
The Reformation challenged the authority of this church.
What was the Catholic Church?
In The Prince, this author argued rulers should focus on maintaining power.
Who was Niccolò Machiavelli?
As a result of the plague, peasants gained this new economic power.
What was the ability to demand wages?
This technology helped the Ottomans defeat fortified cities.
What were gunpowder weapons?
Mercantilism encouraged countries to export more than this.
What were imports?
This invention helped spread both scientific and religious ideas quickly.
What was the printing press?
Both Machiavelli and the Tokugawa Shoguns believed stability required this.
What was strong centralized authority?
The Scientific Revolution challenged knowledge gained mainly from this.
What was tradition or the Church?
Unlike Europeans, Zheng He’s voyages focused on this instead of colonization.
What was trade and tribute?
A negative effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native Americans was this.
What were diseases?
This theory placed the sun at the center of the universe.
What was heliocentrism?
his class in Tokugawa Japan followed a strict code of honor called bushido.
Who were the samurai?
Both the plague and the Scientific Revolution weakened this long-standing authority in Europe.
What was the Catholic Church?
This Ottoman sultan ordered the use of massive cannons to breach Constantinople’s walls in 1453.
Who was Mehmed II?
Under mercantilism, colonies were restricted from trading with this group.
Who were foreign nations (other countries)?
Both the Reformation and Scientific Revolution encouraged people to rely on this rather than tradition.
What was individual thought and questioning?