Feudalism
Feudalism is this type of organizational system.
What is a hierarchy?
An Italian astronomer who invented the telescope and proved the heliocentric theory (that the Earth goes around the Sun).
Who is Galileo?
A neighborhood council responsible for local governance, tax collection, and military service.
What are calpolli?
A Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
While Europe was going through the Renaissance, Japan was going through this period.
What is the Edo period?
People believed that the Black Death was caused by this, rather than infected rats.
What is God's punishment?
A belief system that centres thought on the value, needs and welfare of humans.
What is humanism?
The main language was spoken by the Aztec people.
What is Nahuatl?
A Nahua woman who played a pivotal role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.
Who is Malinche?
The European traders who were still allowed some contact with Edo Japan despite the Exclusion Laws were from this country.
What is The Netherlands? (Dutch)
Trade routes that connected the Mediterranean in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
What is the Silk Road?
During the Renaissance, Italy was made up of what?
What are city-states?
This technology was built to supply water to the city of Tenochtitlan from springs and mountain streams outside the city.
What are aqueducts?
A highly infectious disease brought over by the Spanish is believed to have killed around 90% of the Aztec population.
What is smallpox?
In Japan, this group was idealized, operated with a strict social code of conduct.
Who are the samurai?
A law put in place to control how people could spend their own money.
What is a sumptuary law?
The Renaissance brought about the renewal of classical knowledge and learning first discovered in these two places.
What is Greece and Rome?
A system in which conquered territories paid goods and labor to the Aztecs, and it served as a source of wealth and control for the empire.
What is the tribute system?
A state-run Catholic Church institution that aimed to identify and punish heretics, Jews, and Muslims in Spain during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
The signing of this particular treaty essentially ended Japan's period of isolation.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
A series of long wars with the hopes of gaining back the Holy Land for Christians in Europe.
What are the Crusades?
The name of the new church that was created because of the Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther.
What is the Lutheran Church?
These schools focused on physical education, military training, and practical skills such as farming, weaving, and cooking and were for commoners or non-noble children.
What is Telpochcalli?
The system used to control the Aztecs once the Spanish had conquered them.
What is the encomienda system?
The Meiji period saw this position restored to true power.
What is the Emperor?