Units 1-4
What did West African kingdoms do about Sharia law during 1200-1450 CE?
not impose it on their citizens
Who found the route to India around the tip of Africa?
Vasco de Gama
What type of people did the Ottoman empire struggle to control in the Balkans of Europe?
Timariot
These were the northern people who invaded Ming China and ended the last Han Dynasty in 1644.
Manchu
in various countries kings are taking power away from the nobility and making them part of the king's central government in hopes of expanding their empire (lots of specific examples in your notes)
Over-taxation, famine, and disease frequently led to peasant revolts
What was the name of the tax put on trade by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean?
cartaz
What is a Zamindar? Provide two ways they were included in the central government in the Delhi Sultanate.
What: local princes and rulers of India
tax collect, local authority
This was the name of the battle in which the Portuguese security victory over Omani forces for control of the Indian Ocean in 1509.
Battle of Diu
What was the little ice age? What effects would it have on society?
A global cooling period where the earth was 1-3 degrees colder. Examples: This could hurt jobs (less land to farm) and decrease available food (loss of land to farm on)
Which historical event is most similar to the spread of Islam in the Post-Classical Era?
The spread of Hinduism into Southeast Asia
Who funded the first voyages along the western coast of Africa?
Henry the Navigator
Who was the main Islamic rival of the Ottomans to the east with which they fought intermittently for 200 years? Provide two ways these wars were funded.
Safavid Empire
agriculture and corvee (unpaid but time limited) labor or tax collecting
This was the large-scale naval battle in which the Christian alliance defeated the Ottoman Empire near Greece in 1571 to secure control of the Mediterranean Sea.
Battle of Lepanto
Why was there an increase in literary works and arts during the Early Modern Era?
Because the world was making money there was more money to spend and those in power specifically would pay or commission artists to create
What created a population spike during the song dynasty?
Champa rice!
Provide three non-European places from where merchants continued to thrive despite European domination in the early modern Era.
Omani, Malay, Java
Safavid
Shia
Iran, Mesopotamia, Caucasus region
Name that Ivan: This was the Russian leader who is considered the first to gain Russian independence and start the Russian state.
Ivan III
Which west-African kingdom had decreased in power and prevalence during 1450-1750CE?
Kingdom of Mali
What was the tone of post classical travelers as they explored and wrote about what they observed?
Condescending or judging when it came to people that were not similar to them
What was the overall goal of mercantilism?
national monetary surplus
This is the name of the unsuccessful aristocratic revolt against the French monarchy in the 16th century.
Fronde
This was the great Qing Emperor from 1654 to 1722 who vastly expanded China’s borders, including much of Central Asia and Tibet in the Himalayan Plateau.
Kangxi
What was the devshirme? Who carried it out? Who would be upset about this?
removal of Christian boys at age 8 from Christian elites for the purpose of military or administrative service and conversion to Islam / Ottomans / Balkans and Turks