309254263 | Reconquista | On the Iberian Peninsula | 0 | |
309254264 | Stern Rudder | Developed by the chinese and diffused into European use through Arab ships | 1 | |
309254265 | Triangular Lateen Sail | Made it possible for a ship to advance against the wind | 2 | |
309254266 | Magnetic Compass | Developed by the Chinese to figure direction | 3 | |
309254267 | The astrolabe | From Greek and Persian astronomers to determine Latitude | 4 | |
309254268 | Cross staff and back staff | Navigation equipment of choice for European Sailors | 5 | |
309254269 | Volta Do Mar | Portuguese phrase meaning "return through the sea" | 6 | |
309254270 | Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal | conquered the Morrocan port of Ceuta in 1415 | 7 | |
309254271 | Bartolomeu Dias | He rounded the Cape of good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean in 1488 | 8 | |
309254272 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese Mariner who found support from Spanish Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella | 9 | |
309254273 | Vasco Nunez De Balboa | First sided the Pacific Ocean in 1513 while searching for gold in Panama | 10 | |
309254274 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese Navigator who explored the Pacific and eventually circumnavigated the world | 11 | |
309254275 | Captain James cook | an Englishman whose 3 18th century explorations of the southern and Northern Pacific ocean helped Europeans compile a reasonably accurate understanding of the ocean basin land and people | 12 | |
309254276 | Trading posts | A European Nations built these as footholds in regions where prior commercial powers had dominated for centuries | 13 | |
309254277 | Seven years' war | 1763 the british victory in that worldwide conflict would enable that small nation to dominate world trade and build a vast empire in the 19th century | 14 | |
309254278 | Afonzo D'alboquerque | was the architect of this aggressive policy and his fleets were very effective at overpowering other crafts they encounter and using their heavy artillery effectively on shore | 15 | |
309254279 | India | English concentrated on India and built forts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta | 16 | |
309254280 | Batavia | On the island of Java | 17 | |
309254281 | The joint stock company | Commercial organization | 18 | |
309254282 | East India company | founded in 1600 (English) | 19 | |
309254283 | United East India Company | (Dutch) Relied on private merchants | 20 | |
309254284 | The Philippines and Indonesia | European powers mostly traded peacefully with other peoples the exceptions being : | 21 | |
309254285 | Promote trade and Christianity | The Spanish goals of the Philippines were clear: | 22 | |
309254286 | Manila Galleons | Fill these with silk from China | 23 | |
309254287 | Clove and mace | The Dutch who had neither manpower or the military might to exert their control over all of Indonesia chose to concentrate on these specific wealthy regions | 24 | |
309254288 | "great war for empire" | The seven years' war | 25 | |
309254289 | Global trading system | Mariners carried goods around the world by way of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans for valuables: sugar, silver, tobacco, textiles, guns, furs, and enslaved human beings | 26 | |
309254290 | Cowry shells | highly desirous medium of exchange | 27 | |
309254291 | sugar | dramatically stimulated the market for enslaved workers | 28 | |
309254292 | Martin Luther | Protested sale of indulgences | 29 | |
309254293 | Printing press | Published the many abuses in the church | 30 | |
309254294 | vernacular bible | written in the native language | 31 | |
309254295 | Calvinism | French Protestantism | 32 | |
309254296 | Anglican Church | English Monarch Henry the 8th established himself as the head of this church | 33 | |
309254297 | Council of Trent | Reforms were made primarily here with the help of the new order the jesuits | 34 | |
309254298 | Ignatius Loyola | made society of jesus | 35 | |
309254299 | huguenot protestants | French catholics fought to have control of the monarchy | 36 | |
309254300 | Witches | hunted and killed | 37 | |
309254301 | Dutch revolt | went on for 40 years | 38 | |
309254302 | Thirty years' war | final religious war | 39 | |
309254303 | charles v. | hapsburg ruler | 40 | |
309254304 | New monarchs | increase political power through taxation | 41 | |
309254305 | Henry the 8th | dissolved catholic church | 42 | |
309254306 | Spanish inquisition | to consolidate their power | 43 | |
309254307 | constitutional monarchies | shared power with representative parties | 44 | |
309254308 | Glorious revolution | British obtained a royal family | 45 | |
309254309 | Dutch republic | Elected councils that formed this foundation | 46 | |
309254310 | cardinal Richelieu | adviser to Louis the 13th | 47 | |
309254311 | Versailles | largest building in Europe | 48 | |
309254312 | Russian tsars | adept in absolute policies Peter the great was the most important tsar the crowning achievement of his rule was st. petersburg | 49 | |
309254313 | "partitions" | carved up Poland into these | 50 | |
309254314 | Catherine the great | divided Russia into 50 provinces | 51 | |
309254315 | peace of Westphalia | 30 years war was resolved | 52 | |
309254316 | Capitalism | an economic system | 53 | |
309254317 | columbian exchange | new food crops | 54 | |
309254318 | Banking system | Europeans began to develop this while insurance companies underwrote the risks of long distance trade | 55 | |
309254319 | Serfs | were sold | 56 | |
309254320 | adam smith | (1723-1790) | 57 | |
309254321 | isaac newton | (1642-1727) combined the ideas of astronomy and mechanics | 58 | |
309254322 | John locke | (1632-1704) worked on the laws of politics | 59 | |
309390427 | "putting out system" | giving raw material such as wool to households | 60 | |
309390428 | Decreasing mortality rates | Helped increase the population | 61 | |
309390429 | Absolute monarchs | Europe predicated their power on the theoretical basis of the divine right of kings | 62 | |
309390430 | Romanovs | Held a tightly controlled government | 63 | |
309390431 | Encomienda | Forced labor | 64 | |
309390432 | Tainos | Inhabited the Caribbean | 65 | |
309390433 | Peru & Mexico | vast supplies of silver | 66 | |
309390434 | Sugar & Tobacco | Cash crops | 67 | |
309390435 | Hernan cortes & Francisco Pizarro | Conquistadors Hernan in Mexico and Francisco in Peru | 68 | |
309390436 | Brazil | Portugal established its imperial realm here as a result of the treaty of tordesillas in 1494 | 69 |
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