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World Exploration and Trade
Africa
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Terms and People
100
This commodity from the New World boosted the Spanish Economy and became a basis for other mercantile economies.
What is Silver (Bullion)?
100
This is the type of good that Africa received in the Atlantic Circuit in trade for slaves.
What is Manufactured Goods?
100
The Ottoman Empire was mainly under this sect of the Muslim Faith.
What is The Sunni Sect?
100
He is the Russian Tsar who killed his son and unborn child leaving the succession of his throne in question.
Who is Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)?
100
This terms describes an intellectual movement focused on Humankind and its abilities.
What is humanism?
200
This was Portugal’s one possession in the New World.
What is Brazil?
200
The Portuguese successfully converted this kingdom to Christianity in the 16th century.
What is The Kongo?
200
This Gunpowder Empire was situated between the Ottomans and the Mughals.
Who are the Safavids?
200
The Samurai answered to these feudal lords.
What is the Daimyo Lords?
200
This German monk broke away from the Catholic Church due to papal corruption, and formed the basis for Protestantism.
What is Martin Luther?
300
The trading of this item was France’s major economic venture in the New World during the 17th century.
What is Fur Trading?
300
This nation sent a large farmer population to settle in South Africa.
What is The Netherlands?
300
He created "The Divine Faith" in India in an unsuccessful attempt to unite the Hindus and the Muslims.
Who is Akbar?
300
The Qing Dynasty came from this ethnic area, not China.
What is Manchuria?
300
Last in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, who Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since 873 CE, he is expected to return as a messiah at the end of time.
Who is the Hidden Imam?
400
This city was once the capital of the Aztec Empire, before Hernán Cortés captured it in 1519.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
The most deadly part of the Atlantic Circuit or Triangular Trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
The Ottoman Navy lost dominant control of these two bodies of water in the late 16th century to Western powers.
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean?
400
This dynasty extended China to its largest land mass during the 18th century.
Who are the Qing?
400
This French Theologian founded a Protestant religion based on predetermination, the name of which is derived from his own.
What is Jean Calvin?
500
This palace, built by Peter the Great, was said to rival Versailles in France.
What is Peterhof?
500
The Portuguese reached the Cape of Good Hope in this century.
What is The 15th century?
500
This practice was used by the Ottomans to covert young Christian boys into Islamic Janissaries.
What is Devshirme?
500
The introduction of this by the Portuguese made Japan retreat into isolationism to a point where it was cut off from much of the rest of the world.
What is Christianity?
500
Pope Alexander VI made this treaty in 1493 to divide the Spanish and Portuguese areas of colonization.
What is The Treaty of Tordisillas?