Gunpowder Empires
These weapons facilitated the expansion of land-based empires between 1450–1750.
What is gunpowder technology?
Jesuit missionaries traveled to Ming and Qing courts, as well as built missions in the Americas, partly because of this European religious movement.
What is the Protestant Reformation and counterreformation?
Improved designs of these allowed Portuguese expansion along Africa’s coast.
What are ships (caravels)?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote about natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This, not war, killed most indigenous people of the Americas after contact with Europeans.
What is disease?
The Ottomans used this elite infantry corps, recruited through the devshirme system, to expand their empire.
Who are the Janissaries?
This person's 95 theses helped kick off the protestant reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
Muslim maritime activities in the Indian Ocean were disrupted by this European arrival.
What is the Portuguese (and other Europeans)?
Simon Bolívar criticized Spanish mercantilist restrictions in this region.
What is Latin America?
The Spanish established this system to extract labor from Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
The Mughal Empire ruled over a population that was mostly this religion.
What is Hinduism?
Places of worship or religious practices that blend faiths and cultures can be explained as this.
Brazil’s population became predominantly African due to demand for this cash crop.
What is sugar?
Haiti’s revolution was most directly influenced by this European event.
What is the French Revolution?
Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade partly due to demand for these among elites.
What are weapons?
This empire made Shia Islam its official religion, distinguishing itself from its Sunni neighbors.
What is the Safavid Empire?
The Council of Trent was part of this larger Catholic movement responding to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
Most migrants to the Americas in the three centuries after Columbus came from this region.
What is West Africa?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that the social contract required governments to protect the general will of the people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This term is used to explain the diffusion of crops, animals, and diseases between Western and Eastern hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GUNPOWDER EMPIRES........The Industrial Revolution began in this country due to its access to coal, iron, and waterways.
What is Great Britain?
This Catholic order was founded in the 16th century to combat Protestantism and spread Christianity abroad.
Who are the Jesuits?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around Africa to reach India in 1498.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Improved agricultural productivity in the 18th century helped spark the Industrial Revolution because it led to this demographic shift.
What is rapid urbanization (movement of people to cities)?
This system regulated trade between colonies and the mother country, restricting colonial economies, and viewed the world as a set of finite resources.
What is mercantilism?