Unit 2
This ancient civilization created chinampas (floating gardens).
Who are the Aztecs?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A colony producing a raw material for its mother country who then creates a finished product to export.
What is mercantilism?
A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason to question the ideas and social institutions of the time.
What is the Enlightenment?
Famously stated "Let them eat cake" during the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The Incas complicated knot sytem.
What is the quipu?
This priest nailed 95 theses to a Church door in Germany starting the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
A period of global cooling between the 16th-19th centuries.
What is the Little Ice Age?
In Galileo's time, the Church and most people believed this theory that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The term for the social structure in medieval Europe.
What is feudalism?
The trade route where the Black Death first began to spread.
What is the Silk Road?
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
The first European explorer to explore Hawaii.
Who is James Cook?
The French colony of Saint Domingue (Haiti) produced these goods.
What are sugar and coffee?
This empire started in Central Asia, excelled militarily, and was tolerant of different religions.
Who are the Mongols?
This dynasty is known for ceramics - in particular blue and white porcelain.
What is the Ming dynasty?
The portion of the Transatlantic Trade Route that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas under horrific conditions.
What is the middle passage?
The famous warrior code of conduct the samurai followed.
What is bushido?
Napoleon was first exiled to this island.
What is Elba?
This historical event split Christianity into two divisions - Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
What is the Great Schism?
This empire was located in modern day Turkey where you can see their famous architecture such as Topkapi Palace and the Blue Mosque.
Who are the Ottomans?
“the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged”
What are reparations?
Geographical region that includes Australia, New Zealand, & islands in the SW Pacific Ocean.
What is Oceania?
General and leader of the Haitian Revolution - later died in a prison in France.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?