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100
The idea that to increase the nation's prosperity, you need to have a lot of gold and silver bouillon (wealth)
What is Mercantilism?
100
Spanish explorers who took over parts of the Americas
Who were conquistadors?
100
slaves
What was traded in the middle passage?
100
They believed he would provide stability for the nation
Why did the French support Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
Read the title, key, and then evaluate the content
What are the methods you need to use to understand a map?
200
God, glory, gold; The end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of European global domination
What were the motives and results of exploration?
200
Diseases brought by the Europeans
What caused the Native American population to decline between 1518 and 1593?
200
reason is important to being
What ideas did Rene Descartes discuss in his writings?
200
stimulated by a spirit of inquiry
What are the similarities between the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation?
200
Galileo accepted the idea that the earth revolved around the sun and proved that the earth was not at the center of the universe
What were some examples of the way that the Catholic Church conflicted with science?
300
The ratio of exports to imports. Generally, countries wanted to export more than import.
What is the meaning of "balance of trade?"
300
A system of roads, Suspension bridges, Machu Picchu
What were the achievements of Incan Civilization?
300
It was democratic; it killed both rich and poor in exactly the same way
How did the guillotine reflect Enlightenment principles?
300
They used local rulers to collect taxes and issue justice over the empire
How did the Ottomans rule their extensive empire?
300
political power shifted to the bourgeoisie
What was an important result from the French Revolution?
400
slaves
What was traded in the middle passage?
400
A line created by the Pope solved a dispute by creating spheres of influence for the Spanish and Portuguese.
What was the "line of demarcation?"
400
laws of nature and reason
What were Enlightenment writers interested in?
400
They enforced virtual isolation of the country from the outside world
How did the Tokugawa Shogunate interact with outsiders?
400
He wrote that it was depopulating his country and causing vassals to be disobedient
What did King Affonso say about the slave trade in his letter to the king of Portugal?
500
a settlement developed in foreign parts as trade ports and as new homes for their people.
What is a colony?
500
Trade between Europe, Africa, and the New World
What was the triangular trade route?
500
Idealism, extremism/radicalism, military takeover
According to Andrew Marr, revolutions go through which of the following stages?
500
It represented the most successful slave revolt in history, and the people founded the first black republi
Why is the Haitian Revolution significant in history?
500
Signed by King John, this document gave rights to free people for ever and laid the foundation for a limited monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta?