Western Europe
Influence of _____ and _____ art during the Renaissance Period
What is Greek and Roman?
The agreement that divided the world's uncharted territory between Spain and Portugal, allowing them to claim lands without competition
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
During the _____ _____ enlsaved Africans manged to retain certain aspects of their culture in their new environments.
What is African Diaspora?
Tsars (Russian rulers) established the _____ _____ _____ as a way to unite the people behind their leadership, claiming they had divine right through the Church
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
The largest and most enduring of the great Islamic empires of this period.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Monarchs gain power over: _____, Taxation, and Armies.
What is Legislation?
The conquistadors made their way from the islands of the Caribbean to the Mesoamerican mainland in search of _____, _____, and converts
What is gold and slaves?
Introduced new crops to the continents, such as the American crops maize, peanuts, and manioc, which became staples in the African diet
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The ruler that gained control over and united various Russian city-states thereby gaining even more prestige and power. Through wars and diplomacy, he tripled the size of his state and became one of the longest-reigning rulers of Russia
What is Ivan III?
The Safavids, also a part of the Islamic Gunpowder Empires, had two problems.
What is they were on the Arabian Sea but they had no real navy, and they lacked natural defenses?
The final religious war between Catholics and Protestants in _____ was the ______ ______ War (1618-1648)
What is Europe and Thirty Years' War?
The trade and ______ not only made individual Spanish prospectors wealthy, it also strengthened the Spanish economy
What is silver
China's exports grew during the _____ Dynasty, the empire also instituted a tax on traded goods, which increased its wealth
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The ruler that initiated a wide range of economic, social, political, administrative, educational and military reforms which ended the dominance of traditionalism and religion in Russia and initiated its westernization.
What is Peter the Great?
The ruler that would achieve grand religious and political goals. The Mughal Empire under the ruler was one of the richest and best-governed states in the world.
What is Akbar?
The _____ _____ saw the transformation of commerce from local to large-scale international trade using gold and silver
What is Commercial Revolution?
The disease that infected the indigenous people in theses populations, which fell by more than 50 % through disease only.
What is small pox, or measles and influenza?
The expeditions won prestige for the Chinese government and opened up new markets for Chinese goods.
What is the Voyages of Zheng He?
The ruler that was the longest reigning female leader of the Russian Empire. Successfully led Russia against the Ottoman Empire. Made Russia the dominant power in south-eastern Europe. Rapidly expanded the Russian Empire through conquest and diplomacy.
What is Catherine the Great?
The death of this ruler made the empire grow unstable, which allowed the British and French to gain more and more economic power in India. The British would take political power away from the Mughals in the nineteen century
What is Aurangzeb?
German Priest _____ _____ posts 95 theses on church door in Wittenberg, Germany in the year _____
What is Martin Luther and 1517?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
______ struggled to maintain its own identity and culture. With the help of the Ming, _____ fought off attempted invasions by Japan between 1592 and 1598
What is Korea?
The war that was between France and Russia for land expansion, 1756-1763. This resulted in financial burdens
What is the Seven Years' War ?
The factor that declined the Gunpowder Empires
What is the pressure from the European trading companies and religious differences?