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Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic World
Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia
Religion, Politics, and the Balance of Power in Western Eurasia
Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas
The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and Europe
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This Portuguese prince gained fame for supporting exploration with the goal of capturing territory and converting people to Christianity.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
100
The Ming Dynasty creation an examination for civil servants in China based on the teachings of this man.
Who is Confucius?
100

These individuals, who were captured as Christian youths from the Balkans, made up the elite corps in the Ottoman military.

What are janissaries?

100

This English colony in North America had an export economy based primarily on tobacco production.

What is Virginia?

100
The Atlantic Plantation system utilized African slave labor to produce large quantities of agricultural products, particularly this product, for international markets.
What is sugar?
200
Although designed to protect indigenous peoples, this labor system, established in 1503 by the Spanish, often resulted in further exploitation.
What is the encomienda system?
200
This merchant company, founded in 1602 in Amsterdam, was the effective ruler of Dutch colonial possessions in the Asia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
200

This Russian tsar, who built a new capital at St. Petersburg, is most known for Westernizing Russia.

Who is Peter the Great?

200
The Spanish divided their holdings in the new world into four of these administrative regions, including New Spain and La Plata.
What are viceroyalties?
200
This arid region of Africa, located south of the Sahara Desert and north of the rainforest, became an important diffusion point for Islam in West Africa.
What is the Sahel?
300
This capital city of the Aztec Empire, built on reclaimed swampland, is the location of modern-day Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
This Italian scientist challenged the Catholic church by supporting the heliocentric theory and was called before the Inquisition.
What is Galileo Galilei?
300

This Shi’ite Persian dynasty conflicted with the Sunni Ottoman Empire over both religion and territory.

What is the Safavid Empire?

300
This city, founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608, was the capital of New France in Canada.
What is Quebec?
300
This term refers to the voluntary freeing of slaves by their masters.
What is manumission?
400
This agreement between Spain and Portugal established a dividing line of territorial acquisition in the Americas.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
This dynasty became dominant in South Asia and reached its height under the leadership of Akbar the Great.
What is the Mughal Empire?
400

This economic theory, which was dominant in 17th and 18th century Europe, emphasized the role of international economics in interstate competition.

What is mercantilism?

400
Voodoo and the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe are examples of this type of religion, which fuse cultural elements from more than one tradition.
What is syncretic religion?
400
This kingdom in West Africa, located in what is now Ghana, carried out wars of expansion to produce prisoners who were often sold into the Atlantic slave system.
What is the Asante kingdom?
500
This Inca system of record keeping used knots on strings to keep track of information such as census data.
What is quipu?
500
This dynasty in Japan saw the rise of the shoguns and the establishment of a capital at Edo (now Tokyo).
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
500

This religious conflict focused mainly in Central Europe between Protestant and Catholic states and was the last major religious war in mainland Europe.


What is the Thirty Years' War?

500
This term, one of many new ethnic categories in New World societies, was used to describe a person of both Amerindian and Spanish ethnicity.
What is mestizo?
500
This term was used to describe self-governing communities of escaped slaves that were common in the early modern Caribbean.
What are maroon communities?