Unit 3
Wrote the 95 Theses that criticized the Catholic church's practice of selling indlugences.
Who is Martin Luther?
A rebirth of Greco-Roman culture that lasted from the 1300s to the 1500s. Contributed to new art, architecture, and literature.
What is the Renaissance?
New ways of understanding and ideas that influenced revolutions in the US, France, and Latin America.
What is the Enlightenment?
What is social darwinism?
Conflict in Europe from 1618-1648 that centered around the Holy Roman Emperor forcing his subjects to return to the Catholic faith.
What is the Thirty Years War?
A type of coerced labor in which people from Europe promised to work for a certain amount of time in exchange for a paid voyage to the New World.
What is indentured labor?
The feeling of pride in one's nation. Played a role in political movements in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
What is nationalism?
A meeting of European powers in which the rules of colonizing Africa were established.
What is the Berlin Conference?
An Shi'a Islam empire that was a rival to the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Safavid Empire?
Forced labor in the New World that granted the natives of the land to a Spanish landowner for labor in exchange for keeping them safe.
What is the encomienda system?
A corporation established to raise funds from multiple individuals, creating stockholders. Examples include the United Fruit Company and Unilever.
What is a transnational business?
American laws that restricted Chinese immigration into the US and led to the sharp decline of the Chinese population in the US.
What are the Chinese Exclusion Acts?
Societies influenced by Western culture and adopt their ideas. Japan resisted these efforts by isolating itself.
What is Westernization?
Established colonial areas in Mexico and Peru, creating a new economic system based on forced labor and created a new social hierarchy.
A rebellion against the French, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jacques Dessalines, that started as a slave revolt and resulted in the first republic in Latin America.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
A revolt led by Indian soldiers agains the British East India Company in protest of rules that threatened their religious traditions.
What is the Indian Revolt of 1857
Islamic Empire in West Africa that controlled the Trans-Saharan trade routes. Timbuktu was a city within this empire at its height.
What is the Songhai Empire?
An economic theory adopted by Europeans with a goal of exporting more than they imported by depending on the colonies raw materials and resources and selling the finished products back to the colonies.
What is mercantilism?
Led to new methods in production of steel, chemicals, and electricity. Shifting away from the use of coal, steam, and iron to tin, oil, and rubber.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
American Indian spiritual movement in which the natives believed they would be reunited with spirits who would return to Earth to fight for their land back.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?