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| 5738550310 | In the period of 1450-1750, ___ began to overtake African and Asian empires due to their efforts in exploration. The concept of a ___ began to emerge during this era. | Europe; nation-state | 0 | |
| 5738550311 | Europe's primary motivation for exploring was ___. Europeans initially adopted their navigation technology from ___. They developed new sailing ships for long-distance travel, of which the ___ was the most important. ___ impacted their control over native populations. Their ___ and ___ gave them unprecedented military power. | economic; Asia; caravel; Gunpowder weaponry; galleons; gunships | 1 | |
| 5738550312 | The first Europeans to explore were ___. Portugal began in 1410, encouraged by ___. In 1488, ___ reached the southern tip of Africa, which the Portuguese called the ___. The first European to finally reach India was ___. | Portugal & Spain; Prince Henry the Navigator; Bartolomé Díaz; Cape of Good Hope; Vasco da Gama | 2 | |
| 5738550313 | The Spanish were distracted by the ___ and fell behind Portugal. The Spanish monarchs, ___, accepted Christopher Columbus's proposal in 1492, and allowed him to sail west to reach the Far East. The ___ in 1494, divided South America between Portugal and Spain. | Reconquista; King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella; Treaty of Tordesillas | 3 | |
| 5738550314 | In the 1520s, ___ was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. The Portuguese and Spanish were unable to conquer most of powerful ___, and instead settled for trade. However, they took control of cities like ___ in Africa, ___ in the Middle East, and ___ in Asia. | Ferdinand Magellan; Southeast Asia; Mombasa & Zanzibar; Muscat; Malacca & Macau | 4 | |
| 5738550315 | The Portuguese created a ___ in the Far East. However, the Portuguese and the Spanish had ___ in the New World. | trading-post empire; maritime empires | 5 | |
| 5738550316 | From 1519-1521, ___ conquered the ___. ___ destroyed the Incan empire. European empires in general were adept at ___. ___ also gave Europe the greatest advantage. | Hernán Cortés; Francisco Pizarro; divide-and-conquer tactics; disease | 6 | |
| 5738550317 | Mining was an important economic activity in the New World. ___ dominated near Mexico City, and was greatest in Bolivia's ___. Plantation monoculture was also important, with ___ being the most prized. | Silver; Potosí; sugarcane | 7 | |
| 5738550318 | Originally, the conquistadors governed the territory they conquered. In 1535, New Spain was placed under government control as a ___ and all economic activity was run through the ___ in Seville. | viceroyalty; House of Trade | 8 | |
| 5738550319 | Originally the Spanish attempted to enslave natives with an ___, but it was later abolished. They also began to import slaves from Africa, leading to the ___. | encomienda system; Atlantic Slave Trade | 9 | |
| 5738550320 | The northern Europeans hoped to gain access to Asia via Canada's waters with the ___ or through Russia's northern coast with the ___. | Northeast Passage; Northwest Passage | 10 | |
| 5738550321 | During the 1500s, ___ began to explore/colonize as well. The France colonized much of Canada, their priority being ___. By the 1700s, Britain and France were locked in the ___, an offshoot of the ___ in Europe. | France, the Dutch Republic, & England; fur trade; French & Indian Wars;' Seven Years' War | 11 | |
| 5738550322 | The Dutch fought a long battle of independence against ___, and they seized colonies like ___. Their operations were administered by the ___. | Spain; Malacca; Dutch East India Company | 12 | |
| 5738550323 | The first successful English settlement in North America was ___. The British began to intrude into the Indian subcontinent with the ___. | Jamestown; British East India Company | 13 | |
| 5738550324 | In the 1730s-1740s, the Russians had the ___, in which they surveyed the waters separating Siberia from North America. They were stimulated to settle there by ___, but eventually sold all their American possessions to the ___. Native Siberians were subject to the coerced-labor system known as the ___, where they payed tribute with fur animals to the Russians. | Bering Expedition; fur trade; US; yasak | 14 | |
| 5738550325 | Europe in the 1500s-1700s had ___, with famous examples like ___. He made France incredibly powerful, but also persecuted ___ and was involved in too many wars. He caused a ___ that would eventually lead to the French Revolution. | absolutism; Louis XIV (Sun King); Protestants; national debt | 15 | |
| 5738550326 | In the late 1600s, ___ westernized Russia. ___ of Prussia made his kingship more efficient but also more autocratic. | Peter the Great; Frederick the Great | 16 | |
| 5738550327 | A few European states chose a system of ___, in which the king's power was not absolute. The Dutch had an executive official called a ___. | parliamentarism; stadholder | 17 | |
| 5738550328 | In the 1600s-1700s, the ___ came to control the Middle East, and the ___ controlled Persia. Both were referred to as ___. | Ottoman Empire; Safavid Empire; gunpowder empires | 18 | |
| 5738550329 | ___ led Ottoman conquest into SE Europe and N Africa. Rulers of the Ottoman Empire were called ___. They adopted the system of ___, recruiting people for the ___. Their ___ sorted non-Muslims and forced them to pay the ___. | Sulleyman the Magnificent; sultans; devshirme; janissaries; millet system. jizya | 19 | |
| 5738550330 | The Ottoman ___ was thought to have led to an invasion of Europe, but was stopped by Catholic forces. Safavid Persia adopted ___. | 1683 Siege of Vienna; Shiite Islam | 20 | |
| 5738550331 | As the Kingdom of Mali faded in Africa, the ___ took its place in the mid-1400s. Their most famous ruler was ___. The Congo was taken over by the ___ in 1483. It expelled them in the 1600s with help from the ___. | Songhai Empire; Askia Mohammed; Portuguese; Dutch | 21 | |
| 5738550332 | South Africa was first colonized by the Dutch, called the ___. They enslaves the locals, and then encountered the warlike tribe, the ___. | Boers (AKA Afrikaners); Zulu | 22 | |
| 5738550333 | The Ming Empire experienced breakdown because of the ___ and worsening crop yields because of the ___. China was then conquered by the foreign ___, under the ___. | influx of silver from the Portuguese/Spanish; Little Ice Age; Manchus; Qin Dynasty | 23 | |
| 5738550334 | The reunification of Japan after the breakdown of their ___ began in 1560. Two warlords used gunpowder to defeat rivals, and finally ___ declared himself shogun and ushered in his own era. | feudal system; Tokugawa Ieyasu | 24 | |
| 5738550335 | Under the Tokugawa Era in Japan, their ___ became more rigid and justified by Confucian ideology. ___ were now bureaucrats for the regime. They also had a policy of ___, and the national seclusion policy limited trade to only ___. | caste system; Samurai; isolationism; Nagasaki | 25 | |
| 5738550336 | Muslim forces invading India in the 1520s led to the ___. They reached their peak under ___, who completed the conquest of India. He was famous for abolishing the ___, and encouraging friendly relations between religions. The empire declined under ___, who instated Sharia Law and led to the empire's downfall. | Mughal Empire; Akbar the Great; jizya; Aurangzeb | 26 | |
| 5738550337 | In 1517, Martin Luther protested the sale of ___, and wrote the ___. ___ established an even stricter form of Protestantism in Geneva. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church launched the ___. It reformed the worst corruption, but also reestablished the power of the papacy. | indulgences; Ninety-Five Theses; John Calvin; Catholic Counter-Reformation | 27 | |
| 5738550338 | Sikhism is a syncretic religion of ___, established in India. It was founded in the late 1400s by ___. It became a warrior religion in the 17th century, when the guru was killed, and the ___ was formed. | Hinduism & Islam; Guru Nanak; Khalsa Army | 28 | |
| 5738550339 | Japan's Tokugawa Era ushered in new art forms, like ___, which appealed to the ___. It contrasted with ___, which was favored by the upper classes. | kabuki theater; urban, middle classes; Noh drama | 29 | |
| 5738550340 | Triangular Trade | 1) European manufactured goods were brought to West Africa's coast and exchanged for gold, ivory, and slaves 2) African slaves came to the Americas in exchange for sugar, tobacco, furs, cotton, and other raw materials 3) American and African goods were shipped to Europe | 30 | |
| 5738550341 | The Arab state of ___ rebelled against ___. They also pushed them out of ___ ports and took control of the trade. | Oman; Portuguese colonial rule; West African Swahili | 31 | |
| 5738550342 | The dominant economic philosophy in Europe during 1450-1750 was ___. They favored ___ over economics, and competed with other nations for colonial possessions. This was replaced by ___ in the 1750s. | mercantilism; state control; capitalism | 32 | |
| 5738550343 | Intensive monoculture in Europe was straining on peasants and led to revolts like the ___ of the 1520s. ___ abolished grain taxes and redistributed property after ending the ___. | German Peasants' War; Li Zicheng; Ming Dynasty | 33 | |
| 5738550344 | Europeans and natives had children called ___. Those of European and African descent were called ___. The word ___ generally referred to people of mixed descent. | mestizos/métis; mulattos; creole | 34 | |
| 5738550345 | Purebred Spanish who settled in the New World were known as ___. The ___ were just below them with elite status. | peninsulares; criollos (creoles) | 35 | |
| 5738550346 | Some African societies were matrilineal, like the example of ___. | Queen Nzinga of Angola | 36 |
