Religion 1450-1750
German priest and theologian (1498-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Martin Luther
Built outside of Paris to glorify the French king's rule (Louis XIV) and subdue the nobility. The expenses lead to France being bankrupt.
Palace of Versailles
The official religion of the Ottoman Empire. If conquered by the Ottomans, you were not forced to convert if you paid a tax!
Islam (jizya tax)
This Portuguese Prince was responsible for building maritime schools. (Hint: he never "navigated" anything himself").
Prince Henry the Navigator.
The extensive movements of plants, animals, diseases, and peoples between the Old and New Worlds after Columbus made his famous voyage at the end of the 15th century.
Columbian Exchange
Maritime Empires depended heavily on this brutal labor system to extract resources from the Americas
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade or Chattel Slavery
Term given to the three major Islamic empires of this era.
Gunpowder Empires
These were sold to churchgoing people as a way to absolve their sins and lessen their time in purgatory.
Indulgences
The Tsar (Czar) who "westernized" Russia by implementing technology and trade from Western Europe.
Peter the Great
Soldiers in the Ottoman Empire who had once been Christians, prior to their enslavement and forced service in the Ottoman army.
Janissary
The two most powerful and influential Empires during the Age of Exploration.
Spain, Portugal
The horrific period at sea that slaves had to endure as they were transported from their homes in Africa to a new life of slavery. Characterized by violence, rape, and cruelty.
Middle Passage
The king and queen of ______ employed Christopher Columbus to search for a route to India, but ended up funding genocide of Native Americans instead.
Spain
A Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-Christian peoples.
Encomienda System
In India this great leader created the ultimate synchronistic religion "The Devine Faith" which blended Hindu, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. He was also known for keeping religious peace in the Mughal Empire. His name translates to "The Great The Great".
Akbar The Great!
A political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
Divine Right of Kings
The _______ Shogunate was a period of Japanese history where shoguns took power from the Emperor, ushering a time of relative peace and prosperity.
Tokugawa (often called the Edo Period)
European nations were exploring to find the quickest route to this place.
Indian Ocean Trade Network
Or just India will work.
A new economic system developed in the 15th century that sought to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restrictive trade practices. Its goal was to increase the supply of a state's gold and silver with exports rather than to deplete it through imports.
Mercantilism
Which foreign good did European maritime empires want from the Indies?
Spices
In Russia during this period, there were two major social groups. There were the _____ who ruled over the majority of the population who were _____.
Boyars (nobles), Serfs
The ___________ was the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation, aiming to strengthen its authority and win back lost followers.
Counter-Reformation
The events of 1688-1689 in England where King James II was deposed and replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, is called...
Bonus 100 points for identifying the most significant piece of legislation to come out of this event.
The Glorious Revolution
Bonus: The English Bill of Rights
Shah Jahan built this giant iconic mausoleum for his wife. It showed his vast power.
Taj Mahal
Which TWO empires did the European empires destroy through warfare and the spread of disease?
Aztec
Incan
Two Part Question.
1. Name the vocab word for the large, investor-backed companies that sponsored European exploration and colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hoping to reap in the profitable rewards.
2. Give one example of this kind of company.
1. Joint-stock companies
2. French, Dutch, and British East India Companies
Explain The Concept of the Triangular trade, starting with travel to Africa.
1. Europeans traveled to Africa, where they traded guns, rum, and other manufactured goods for slaves.
2. Europeans filled ships with slaves headed from Africa to Caribbean sugar plantations.
3. After slaves are delivered to the new world, ships were filled with raw resources and sent back to Europe.
Name of the disease that killed millions of Native Americans due to their lack of immunity.
Smallpox
The Ottoman Empire were ______ Muslims, where the Safavid were ______ Muslims.
Sunni Shia
Name the four MAJOR intellectual/religious movements that modernized Europe from 1450-1750
The Renaissance, The Protestant Revolution, The Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment.
Who were the Ottoman Empire's main rivals during the time period 1450-1750 and why were they always fighting?
Safavid Empire; competing sects of Islam?
Name TWO maritime technological innovations of the period 1450-1750.
Compas, Astrolabe, Caravel, Cartography, Lanteen Sail.
New ships like the Carrack, Caravel, or Fluyt
Name the social/racial classes of Colonial Spain from highest to lowest.
peninsular, creole, mestizo, mulatto, native American, and African slaves.
During this period, the power structure of the Indian Ocean Trade Network was dominated by three different groups. List them.
1. Dar al Islam
2. Portuguese
3. The Dutch
Name at least TWO explorers from the time period 1450-1750
Bartolomeu Dias (1450 - 1500)
Vasco da Gama (1460 - 1524)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521)