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The First Global Age
Economies
Age of Revolutions
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100
Spain introduced the encomienda system to Latin America, a system which enslaved this group of people.
Who are the indigenous people (natives) of Latin America.
100
The name for a system where colonial powers control trade at the expense of their colonies.
What is mercantilism?
100
"We must ask ourselves three questions. (1) What is the Third Estate? Everything. (2) What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. (3) What does it want to be? Something." Based on this passage, what type of power does the Third Estate seek?
What is political power?
100
During the Neolithic Revolution, people shifted from this nomadic way of life to farming.
What is hunting and gathering?
200
Which event in European history was greatly influenced by Johannes Gutenburg, King Henry VIII, and John Calvin? -Reconquista -Glorious Revolution -Protestant Reformation -trans-Atlantic slave trade
What is the Protestant Reformation?
200
Merchants and bankers established joint stock companies and insurance companies during the rise of this economic system.
What is capitalism?
200
Louis XIV (The Sun King) built this beautiful palace outside of Paris for the same reason that Peter the Great built St. Petersburg - as a monument to personal rule.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
200
Both the Inca and this famous European empire built large networks of roads and bridges in order to unify their empires.
What is the Roman Empire?
300
Men from these three professions made up the "new middle class" in Europe during the rise of capitalism.
What are merchants, bankers, and lawyers?
300
The Estates of pre-Revolutionary France were made up of these three groups of people.
What are the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners (everyone else).
400
Nicolas Copernicus and Galileo Galilee believed in this model of the universe, where the earth circles the sun and not the other way around.
What is the heliocentric model?
500
The 1453 conquest of Constantinople is an important turning point in history because it contributed to the rise of this Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
These events - Zheng He's seven voyages are sponsored by the government, Corn and peanuts are introduced into the people's diet, and the Forbidden City is built in Beijing - are associated with which time period in Chinese history?
What is the Ming Dynasty?