319223629 | Thomas Aquinas | Priest, murged together science and religion | 0 | |
319223630 | Bubonic Plague | decreased population by 1/3, came from the Middle East, spread by the Mongols | 1 | |
319223631 | 3 Field System | Rotated crops, improved harvest | 2 | |
319223632 | Wat Tyler's Rebellion | After Bubonic Plague, over wages, very forceful | 3 | |
319223633 | Guild | group of people who had the same job, set prices, regulated business | 4 | |
319223634 | Marco Polo | European explorer, sparked intrest in New Worlds | 5 | |
319223635 | Renaissance | "The Rebirth" looked back to Glory Days, art; thought; and general learning | 6 | |
319223636 | Humanism | focus on the human expriences, what it means to be human | 7 | |
319223637 | Dante | Renaissance author | 8 | |
319223638 | Chaucer | wrote Canterbury Tales | 9 | |
319223639 | Giotto | Midevial art - Renaissance, one of the first Renaissance artists | 10 | |
319223640 | Patron | paid for artwork | 11 | |
319223641 | Lorenzo Medici | commetioned artwork, very influential patron of the arts | 12 | |
319223642 | Universities | major trade cities, rebirth of literacy | 13 | |
319223643 | Magna Carta | 1st time king was subject to law, king had limits, writen by parliment | 14 | |
319223644 | Gutenberg Bible | 10 million Bibles by 1500, Getenberg Printing Press, helped improve literacy rate | 15 | |
319223645 | Hundred Years War | Monarchs much stronger, taxes went to training crossbows | 16 | |
319223646 | Parliament Zheng He | Emperor of the Ming Dynasty | 17 | |
319223647 | Prince Henry the Navigator | set up navigation schoolo in Portugal, Portugal Prince | 18 | |
319223648 | Astrolabe | maps, technology from East Coast, found location at sea, used sun and stars, worked night and day | 19 | |
319223649 | Caravel | European exploration ships, much smarter than most ships, used for Africa; India; and America | 20 | |
319223650 | Bartolomeu Diaz | 1st to round the tip of Africa | 21 | |
319223651 | Vasco de Gama | 1st to reach India | 22 | |
319223652 | Christopher Columbus | 1st European to discover the Americas,wanted to find a direct map to India | 23 | |
319223653 | Ferdinand Magellan | 1st to lead a voyage around the world, died in the Philipines | 24 | |
319223654 | Gold Coast | West African Coast, had tons of Gold | 25 | |
319223655 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquestador, Mexico - Aztecs, Aztecs thought that he was a returning God | 26 | |
319223656 | Malinche/Dona Maria | translator, seen as betrayor to Aztecs, Princess to one of the Aztecs conqured tribes, helped collect data on war | 27 | |
319223657 | Moctezuma | Aztec leader when spanish took over, rebellion, spanish took over | 28 | |
319223658 | Francisco Pizarro | took over Inca | 29 | |
319223659 | Tready of Tordesillas/Saragrossa | line dividing where Spain and Portugese could take over, created by Pope | 30 | |
319692406 | Protestant Reformation | Christian split, indulgences, 95 theses, faith over deeds, use of Printing Press, calvinism vs. Democracy | 31 | |
319692407 | Indulgences | payment for sins, never supported by the Pope, only individual priests | 32 | |
319692408 | Martin Luther | nailed 95 theses on church door | 33 | |
319692409 | Catholic Reformation | counter attack to major schism, jesuits, inquisition, missionaries | 34 | |
319692410 | Jesuits | society of Jesus, missionaries, very orderly | 35 | |
319692411 | Inquisition | to find people that went against the church, heretics, persecuted/killed | 36 | |
319692412 | English Reformation | King Henry VIII seeks for annulment, Anglican church | 37 | |
319692413 | Henry VIII | English Reformation, set up Anglican Church | 38 | |
319692414 | Scientific Revolution | major change in scientific thought, heliocentric, telescope, gravity | 39 | |
319692415 | Copernicus | sun was the center - not the Earth, Heliocentric | 40 | |
319692416 | Heliocentric | the sun is the center, Copernicus | 41 | |
319692417 | Galileo | confirmed Copernicus's ideas, invented telescope | 42 | |
319692418 | Isaac Newton | Gravity, laws of motion | 43 | |
319692419 | Enlightenment | major philosophical movement, questioned power of government, questioned rights of people | 44 | |
319692420 | Voltaire | free speech in society | 45 | |
319692421 | John Locke | government should be responsive to the people | 46 | |
319692422 | Social Contract Theory | everyone gives up rights for government protection | 47 | |
319692423 | Joint-Stock Company | Dutch, fueled colonization of Americas and Bahamas, people put money together, private investors made $$$, Dutch East India Company | 48 | |
319692424 | Absolutism | Monarchs were in total control of area, got all taxes, huge military, centralization, unification | 49 | |
319692425 | Palace of Versailles | age of Absolutism example, took so much $$ to make and keep up | 50 | |
319692426 | Balance of Power | countries banded together, kept countries in check, didn't want one in total power | 51 | |
319692427 | Parliament | the legislature of Great Britain | 52 | |
319692428 | Colombian Exchange | all of the goods and ideas that were exchanged between the New World and the Old World and back again | 53 | |
319692429 | Viceroy | King/Queen of Spain - Viceroy (New Spain) - Governors | 54 | |
319692430 | Encomienda | system of forced labor, used by spanish in Latin America | 55 | |
319692431 | Mita | replaced the Encomienda, not as tightly controlled | 56 | |
319692432 | Bartolome de Las Casas | priest, 1st fighter for Indian Rights, against forced conversions, thought everyone's soul was equal | 57 | |
319692433 | Indentured Servants | slave, gave life to work for 7 years, return would be land and money, usually died during work | 58 | |
319692434 | Iroquois Confederacy | 1st to take on and go with Europeans, wanted peace | 59 | |
319692435 | Chartered Companies | companies permitted by the King to go to make money off the goods there | 60 | |
319692436 | Dutch West India Company | Chartered company told to go to West Indies and/or Caribbean | 61 | |
319692437 | Dutch East India Company | Chartered company told to go to East India | 62 | |
319692438 | Royal African Company | chartered company told to go to African and make profit from slave trade | 63 | |
319692439 | Plantation System | large farms that relied on slave labor, extremely stratified, disease was a major killer, low ferility | 64 | |
319692440 | Sugar Plantations | in the Caribbean and Brazil, used sugar as major export | 65 | |
319692441 | Slave Driver | a slave that enforces slave labor without a rebellion | 66 | |
319692442 | Manumission | when a slave earns there freedom, least common in British North America | 67 | |
319692443 | Mercantilism | purpose of colonies is to benefit the main country, may limit trade | 68 | |
319692444 | Capitalism | take capital, invest into something to have capital in turn, Joint-Stock Company | 69 | |
319692445 | Middle Passage | the voyage of slaves from Africa to North America and the West Indies | 70 | |
319692446 | African Diaspora | disperses of Africans to everywhere that slave trade was, caused by slave trade, spreading of Africans to South America, North America, Middle East, West Indies, Caribbean, Brazil | 71 | |
319692447 | Sugar | major export from Brazil and Caribbean, West Indies Brazil | 72 | |
319692448 | Tobacco | major exports from British North Americas | 73 | |
319692449 | Ottoman Empire | Balkins and Turkey, similar to centralized monarchies in France ans Spain, tax farming | 74 | |
319692450 | Sultan | a muslim king | 75 | |
319692451 | Mehmed II | Sultan responsible for conquering Constantinople | 76 | |
319692452 | Suleiman the Magnificent | sultan at height of Ottoman, centralized power, expanded military, bettered economy | 77 | |
319692453 | Istanbul | crossroads of culture, was Constantinople | 78 | |
319692454 | Hagia Sophia | became a mosque | 79 | |
319692455 | Janissary | elite military grouped, formed to guard sultan, Ottoman | 80 | |
319692456 | Tax Farming | Suleiman invented in Ottoman, private collectors sent out to collect taxes | 81 | |
319692457 | Tulip Period | period in Ottoman in history where everything was high demand, name comes from demand for tulips grown in Denmark | 82 | |
319692458 | Oman | sitting right at the most important area for global oil trade, controlled by Ottoman but still had European ports | 83 | |
319692459 | Safavid Empire | rise of Shi'ite Islam, modern day Iran, increased veiling and concealment of women | 84 | |
319692460 | Mughal Empire | modern day India, land of hindus, controlled by Muslims, relied on military bureaucracy to get taxes, prosperous economy - cotton cloth, trade with Europe - textiles | 85 | |
319692461 | Babur | expanded empire (Mughal), wanted to unify all Empires | 86 | |
319692462 | Tokugawa Shogunate | reunification of Japan | 87 | |
319692463 | Jesuits | focused on intellectuals | 88 | |
319692464 | Francis Xavier | prominent Jesuits in Japan | 89 | |
319692465 | Rice Exchanges | paper currency, bushels of white rice, receive a deposit of rice to later on trade the paper(deposit) to receive more rice, related to Flying Money | 90 | |
319692466 | Ronin | master-less samurai, 47 Ronin group - 47 samurai | 91 | |
319692467 | Qing Empire | 2x size of Ming - 350 million - 2x of Europe | 92 | |
319692468 | Kangxi | repair roads, encouraged settlements, welcome jesuits - discussed philosophy and science with them, only allowed one port per trade | 93 | |
319692469 | Forbidden City | new capital, allowed only i who he wished in, allowed Jesuits in - didn't agree with them but enjoyed discussion | 94 | |
319692470 | Great Wall | Warring States Period, now Ming Empire, $$$ | 95 | |
319692471 | Kowtow | ultimate sign of respect to a higher government - bowed knees and face to ground, only in China | 96 | |
319692472 | China Ware | know as 'Fine China' porselin, cups - plates - bowls | 97 | |
319692473 | Tzar | emperor of Russia, (Tsar) | 98 | |
319692474 | Muscovite | Russians bring back domestic Russian rule from the Mongols | 99 | |
319692475 | Romanov | Royals in Russia, Peter the Great was one | 100 | |
319692476 | Cossacks | survivalists - ability to fight and hunt, drove demand for fur pelts, went to Siberia for furs | 101 | |
319692477 | Peter the Great | Westernization, absolute power, modernized army, drills uniformity | 102 | |
319692478 | St. Petersburg | Peter the Great changed capital | 103 | |
319692479 | Catherine the Great | absolutism, westernization, promoted enlightenment ideas | 104 |
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