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The World Economy
The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750
The Rise of Russia
Early Latin America
African Slave Trade in the Atlantic Age
100
This exchange involved a transfer of people, animals, plants, and diseases between the two hemispheres in the early modern era.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
Italian Renaissance culture stressed these themes, which focused on humanity as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavor.
What is humanism? (secularism also acceptable)
100
Under this Tsar, who claimed succession from Rurik, a large portion of Russia was freed from Mongol rule after 1462.
Who is Ivan III, aka Ivan the Great?
100
This city was built by the Spaniards on the ruins of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and became the capital of New Spain.
What is Mexico City?
100
The voyage from Africa to the New World was known as this, because it was part of a triangular trade system in which European manufactured products were brought to the coast of Africa, traded for slaves who were then carried to the New World, and then sugar and tobacco and other New World goods were in turn taken back to Europe.
What is the Middle Passage (the middle route on the three route triangular system)?
200
In the 15th century, Portuguese sailors began venturing around this continent, planning to bypass the Muslim merchant roads and reach the East Indies.
What are Africa and the Cape of Good Hope?
200
This great Russian Tsar, the son of Alexis Romanov, moved his capital from Moscow to a location closer to the Baltic Sea and the West.
Who is Peter the Great?
200
This system of labor in the New World was supposed to be recriprocal, where Spanish conquistadors taught natives Christianity and a skill in exchange for labor; but in reality it was exploitative and domineering, and turned natives into virtual slaves.
What is the encomienda system?
200
This trade system consisted of exchanges of good between Europe, Africa, and the New World.
What is the triangular trade system?
300
A Spanish expedition under this explorer set sail in 1519 and eventually sailed around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This reigning economic theory held that governments should promote the internal economy in order to improve tax revenues and limit imports from other nations.
What is mercantilism?
300
This 18th century female ruler of Russia flirted with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and invited French philosophers for visits.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
These very large rural estates became the basis of wealth and power for the local aristocracy in many regions.
What are haciendas?
300
These Dutch farmers colonized southern Africa and initiated many wars of conquest with the indigenous Africans there.
Who are the Boers?
400
These semiprivate Dutch and British companies formed pooling merchant capital and amassed great fortunes and power in commerce in Asia.
What are the Dutch and British East India Companies?
400
This new movement was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution of the 16th century, and centered particularly in France, but with devotees throughout the educated Western world.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
Peter the Great focused many of his reforms on these three main areas of Russian society.
What is political organization, selected economic developments, and cultural changes/improvements?
400
This Dominican friar spent his life defending Native Americans and fighting for justice for them, while this Spanish scholar argued that Indians were not fully human and thus legitimate to be enslaved, just as a beast of burden.
Who are Bartolome de las Casas and Juan Sepulveda?
400
Portuguese missionaries had their first success in converting this African ruler and kingdom to Christianity.
What is the Kongo kingdom?
500
British and French rivalry over control of India culminated in outright warfare in the mid 1750s during this great war, sometimes known as the first truly global war.
What is the Seven Years' War? (1756-1763) [In North American contexts also known as the French and Indian War]
500
This Scottish philosopher elaborated the basic economic principles of capitalism, which would become the basis for European economic domination of the world.
Who is Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, 1776)?
500
These peasant adventurers from the Central Asian steppes were skilled horsemen and played a key role in Russian expansion and colonization.
Who are the Cossacks?
500
This Treaty was proposed by the pope and signed by Spain and Portugal in 1494, and it clarified the spheres of influence of the two nations.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?
500
This man was the leading force for the abolition movement in Britain in the late 1700s/early 1800s.
Who is William Wilberforce (also John Wesley, John Newton, and many others)?