The island became the first community to experience a successful slave rebellion.
Haiti
100
While previous estimates of the Black Death's mortality toll ranged from 20-30% of the population, modern estimates are now what percentage?
Upwards to 50%
100
Home of the emperor Moctezuma, this capital included massive irrigation systems, sustainable agricultural systems, and a population larger than any capital in Europe.
Tenochtitlan
100
These two minority groups faced persecution during the Spanish Reconquista.
Jews and Muslims.
100
What was the text compiled by Sahagun that depicted Aztec resistance to Spanish conquest?
Codex Floretine
200
Located at the southern tip of Africa, in 1498 Casco de Gama (a Portuguese explorer) was the first European to sail around this and on to India. The success opened the door for the Portuguese maritime monoply.
Cape of Good Hope
200
What was the name of the reactionary religious group who publicly whipped themselves in France?
The Flagellants
200
This Spanish city was the starting point of the flota system.
Sevilla
200
This royal representative's critique of the "diabolical" treatment of the Jews is often viewed as a ploy of a larger concern of his kingdom's lack of financial recuperation.
King Pedro IV of Aragon
200
This individual was remembered as the conquerer of the Inca Empire.
Francisco Pizarro
300
Located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. One of the first islands colonized for Sugar production by the Portuguese. Forced indigenous groups and slaves to work on sugar plantations.
Azores Islands
300
In reaction to the Black Plague, many of the Muslim ulemas issued fatwas ordering Muslims against doing what?
Flee from the cities
300
Located in northern Mexico, this region was a key source of Spanish colonial mining.
Zacatecas
300
In 1348, these violent mob attacks were sparked by accusations that Jews had been poisoning village wells.
The pogroms
300
This city's collaboration with the Spanish eventually led to the downfall of Tenochtitlan.
Tlaxcala
400
Located in South America, in the 1600s and through the colonial period the Spanish exploited this silver mine, tripling the amount of silver in the world economy. The Spanish crown received 1/5 profit off the mines which enabled them to remain a world superpower.
Potosi
400
Some scholars have argued that the Black Plague lead to what cultural movement throughout Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries?
The Renaissance
400
In this Portuguese trading station, Vasco de Gama inflicted violent attacks upon its populations in an attempt to assert imperial dominance.
Calicut
400
At the end of this conflict in Spain, Jews and Muslims were forced to covert to Christianity or be expelled from the peninsula.
Defeat of Granada 1492
400
What economic system led to hostilities amongst the neighbors of the Aztecs?
Aztec tributary system
500
A key port city located on the coast of Africa that the Portuguese overtook first by “praying, then pillaging”.
Kilwa
500
Regarding the nature of the Black Death, what theory was Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib killed for?
The Theory of Contagion
500
In 1347, this city was one of the first inflicted with the Black Death in Europe.
Messina
500
These Jewish enclaves in Spain were some of the major sites of persecution during the reconquista.
Aljames
500
This woman's assistance during the Spanish conquest of Mexico has been viewed as a national betrayal and a symbol of feminist determination.