Renaissance and Reformation
This group established banks in Venice, Rome, London, and other cities, they were integral to the growth of trade.
The Medici Family
The real rulers of Japan in the 17th century
Who was the Tokugawa Shogunate?
Economic policy that dominated the Age of Exploration and encouraged countries to export more than they imported.
What is mercantilism?
European country that was first involved in the African Slave trade.
What is Portugal?
How many wives did Henry VIII have in his lifetime?
Six
An item prized by wealthy Italians for its geometric pattern, often depicted in paintings to signal the prestige and high status of the artists patron.
Thick hand-knotted carpets.
The elite enslaved soldier fighting force serving the Ottomans'.
Who were the janissaries?
The regular interchange between Eastern and Western hemispheres and the integration of previously isolated peoples into global networks was known as?
The Columbian Exchange
What was the journey by slave ships across the Atlantic known as?
The Middle Passage
Who was the most successful of the conquistadors?
Hernán Cortés
A man who was one of the earliest humanists writers, an italian historian, poet, and philosopher.
Who is Petrarch?
Famous work of Mughal architecture, blending Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles found in northern India. One of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
What is the Taj Mahal?
Large tracts of farmland given by the Spanish government to wealthy colonists.
Haciendas
The Atlantic slave trade was part of a network often called _____
The Triangular trade
What were ways for escaped slaves to attain help in surviving and avoiding recapture.
Joining pirate groups, settling among Native American populations, or forming autonomous communities.
The woman who Henry VIII divorced his first wife to marry, formerly a lady in waiting.
Anne Boleyn
Where was Russia's "window to the West", also known as the "Winter Palace".
St. Petersburg
What English explorer failed to find the Northwest Passage, but instead had a river in Albany, New York named for him.
Henry Hudson.
Self-governing groups of escaped slaves common in the Caribbean.
Maroon communities.
How many viceroyalties were Spain's territories in the America's divided into?
Two viceroyalties
What was the purpose for the council of Trent meetings.
Laid out the rituals and structures of the modern Roman Catholic Church, clearly defined the differences between Catholics and Protestants.
The Safavid dynasty practiced this form of Islam.
What is Shi'a?
How did the Dutch East India Company erode Portugal's position in the Indian Ocean
Taking over strategic points of trade.
What were two reasons that Europeans moved away from using Native Americans as slave labor?
They kept dying of European diseases, they were able to easily escape back into the wilderness. (other examples may work)
The type of slavery that was practiced in the Americas which was drastically different than previous forms of slavery.
What is Chattel slavery?