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100
This person implemented policies of religious tolerance in the Mughal Empire.
Who is Akbar the Great?
100
This system gave the shoguns real political power, and they used a strict social hierarchy and concentrated land ownership in the hands of a few daimyo in order to maintain power.
What is centralized feudalism under the Tokugawa in Japan.
100
The event increased European desire for goods from Asia, such as spices.
What is the Crusades?
100
This policy forbade Japanese citizens from leaving the country.
What is isolationism set out in the Edits of Japan?
100
The period in European history where there was no new learning or centralized government
What is the Dark Ages? This was a time of feudalism.
200
This person implemented the jizya tax and destroyed Hindu temples in Mughal India.
Who is Aurangzeb?
200
The idea that a country's power is based on its wealth (gold and silver).
What is mercantilism?
200
During this time in Europe there was a return to studying Ancient Greece and Rome
What is the Renaissance?
200
This crop led to a population increase in Europe because it provided many poor people with nutritious food to eat.
What is the potato?
200
This event happened after the Renaissance in Europe and challenged the idea of religion
What is the Scientific Revolution?
300
This person expanded Chinese influence around the globe.
Who is Zheng He?
300
This religion is based off honoring the five key relationships and respecting your elders. The Chinese did not believe that the Christians respected this religion. This was one of the reasons they were kicked out of China.
What is Confucianism?
300
The result of European diseases arriving in the Americas led to what?
What is the decline of the Native American population?
300
The policy of being open to all religious.
What is religious tolerance?
300
The ideas of Muslim thinkers and scientists helped this event to occur in Europe.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
This group of people held the real power in Tokugawa Japan.
Who are the shoguns?
400
The spread of goods, animals, food products, and diseases between the New World and the Old World during the Age of Exploration?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
For the first time this was true about trade in 1450 and 1750
What is the rise of the first truly global trade network?
400
These people were kicked out of Japan or China.
Who are Christian missionaries?
400
Desire for gold, to spread Christianity, and rivalries with other European states led to this period in history.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
These people were the kidnapped Christian boys who were trained to serve in the Ottoman military.
Who are the Janissaries?
500
System of forced labor (of Native Americans) in the Spanish colonies. The Spanish were supposed to protect the Native Americans in exchange for their work, but this did not happen.
What is encomienda?
500
This series of events was a religious war between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land.
What is the Crusades?
500
The name given to the period of colonization by Maritime Empires.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
Without ideas from the East, this event would not have been possible in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?