Vocab
An early megacorporation, founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies in the early 17th century
What is Dutch East Indian Company?
It went against China's beliefs and they viewed agriculture as more ideal.
Why did China not undergo widespread industrialization?
A segment of the global slave trade that transported 10 million to 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
Why might some women have been critical of the Enlightenment?
Women had a different outlook on life and they had different ideas.
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
What is theocracy?
A man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.
What is a Mestizo?
How did Japan effectively keep Western ideas and customs out?
Japan kept western ideas out by enforcing the closed country policy.
A economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
What is capitalism?
What similarities do the Russian surf's and American slaves share?
Russian surf's and American slaves had no worth. They both worked on fields and they were owned by other people high in social status.
An authoritarian or non-democratic leader who exercises his political power for the benefit of the people, rather than just for themselves.
What is an enlightened despot?
A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
What is the triangular trade?
What were the motives behind European exploration?
The motives behind the European exploration was Gold, God, and Glory.
A grant by the Spanish crown to a colonial in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
What is encomienda?
Why did enlightened despots undertake reforms?
They heard the ideas of the philosopher and chose to embrace the new ideas and made changes that reflect the enlightenment.
Denoting attitudes, activities or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
What is secular?
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from west Africa to the west Indies.
What is the middle passage?
Why were the Spanish successful in defeating the natives of the Americas?
The Spanish had superior weapons and diseases.
One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.
What is a daimyo?
Why did Japan become imperialistic?
Japan became imperialistic because of culture and necessity from that culture after they failed to invade Korea.
The languange or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
What is vernacular?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, culture, population, and technology.
What is the Colombian exchange?
How does Locke's view of human nature different from Hobbes?
Locke envisions a very limited government while Hobbes believes in the need for absolute monarchy
The action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian church.
What is excommunication?
What were the Boxer and Taiping Rebellions? How were they similar?
They were rebellions made by people in a secret society and a god worshipping society. Both were violent up risings in China.
A regular social gathering for the people of the enlightenment.
What is a salon?