136337267 | Asian | Much of the territory added to the Russian empire was... | 0 | |
136337268 | Ivan III | Russian ruler who freed a large part of Russia from Mongol control in the 15th century. | 1 | |
136337269 | Ivan the Great | claimed that Russia had succeeded the Roman and the Byzantine Empires as the "Third Rome". | 2 | |
136337270 | Cossacks | peasants that were recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in the Russian Empire. | 3 | |
136337271 | Romanov family | chosen in 1613 to establish a new ruling dynasty in Russia. | 4 | |
136337272 | Alexis Romanov | tsar responsible for the abolition of the assemblies of the nobles and reform of the Orthodox church. | 5 | |
136337273 | The Old Believers | Russians who refused to accept tsarist reforms of the Orthodox church. | 6 | |
136337274 | Peter the Great | under his reign, Russia went to war with Sweden and, as a result, gained territory on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. | 7 | |
136337275 | Baltic Sea | became critical to the development of Russian power during the reign of Peter the Great. | 8 | |
136337276 | Catherine the Great | powerful ruler of Russia following Peter the Great. | 9 | |
136337277 | Alaska, parts of Siberia, and the Pacific coast of North America | Territories colonized or claimed by the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Great. | 10 | |
136337278 | 1649 | Russian serfdom became hereditary. | 11 | |
136337279 | Pugachev | cossack that led a peasant rebellion in Russia in the 1770s. | 12 | |
136337280 | Characteristics of both Europe and Russia | rigid serfdom, dominant aristocracy, and the lack of a native commercial class with an urban culture. | 13 | |
136824737 | Characteristics of Iberian society | heavy urbanization, slaveholding traditions, emphasis on nobility, and emphasis on patriarchal ideals. | 14 | |
136824738 | Hispaniola | What was the first Spanish colony established in the New World? | 15 | |
136824739 | encomiendas | grants of Indians to individual Spaniards as a labor system. | 16 | |
136824740 | the Spanish | Who created the models that were applied throughout their possessions in the New World in the Caribbean? | 17 | |
136824741 | American cities were laid out on a grid plan. | What was the difference between Spanish American cities and those from Europe? | 18 | |
136824742 | Hernan Cortez | man responsible for the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. | 19 | |
136824743 | Indian nobility | an institution that was retained by the Spanish to serve European administrative purposes. | 20 | |
136824744 | mita | Indian labor extracted through local officials replaced the labor of the encomienda. | 21 | |
136824745 | Potosi | location of the greatest silver mine. | 22 | |
137390858 | by the development of galleons | How was the Spanish convoy system that controlled trade with the Americas made possible? | 23 | |
137390859 | Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 | divided the world into spheres of influence belonging to Portugal and Castile. | 24 | |
137390860 | Catholic church | introduced universities, the construction of baroque churches, and the printing press to American life. | 25 | |
137390861 | Pedro Alvares Cabral | The first landfall in the colony of Brazil took place in 1500 under who? | 26 | |
137390862 | one-half | By 1700, slaves comprised ______ of the Brazilian population. | 27 | |
137390863 | The Spanish empire was almost exclusively American, while the Portuguese Empire included colonies and outposts in Asia, Africa and Brazil. | What was the primary difference between the Spanish and Portuguese empires? | 28 | |
137390864 | slaves | African contribution to the Colombian Exchange. | 29 | |
137390865 | Portugal | the European nation that established direct contact with black Africa. | 30 | |
137390866 | Asian | Much of the territory added to the Russian empire was ____. | 31 | |
137390867 | El Mina | one of the early Portuguese trade forts that was the most important. | 32 | |
137390868 | Kongo | African kingdom that most successfully converted to Christianity by the Portuguese missionaries. | 33 | |
137390869 | slavery in Europe | died out by 1450 except along the military frontier between Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean. | 34 | |
137390870 | The development of sugar plantations on the Atlantic islands of Madeira and the Canaries. | What led to the intensification of the Portuguese involvement in the African slave trade? | 35 | |
137390871 | Brazil | received more slaves in the Americas than any other region between 1550 and 1850. | 36 | |
137390872 | trans-Saharan slave trade | concentrated on women. | 37 | |
137390873 | Atlantic slave trade | concentrated on young men. | 38 | |
137390874 | impact of slave trade on Africa | skewed the population of central Africa in favor of a disproportional number of women. | 39 | |
137390875 | 18th century | When did Atlantic slave trade reach it's zenith in terms of Africans exported? | 40 | |
137515004 | the British | Who organized their shipment of slaves to the Americas by chartering the Royal African Company and giving it a monopoly over the shipment of slaves to the colonies in the Americas. | 41 | |
137515005 | Triangular Trade | the term utilized for the commercial arrangement by which African slaves were shipped to the Americas, sugar and tobacco were carried to Europe, and European manufactured goods were transported to Africa. | 42 | |
137515006 | Portuguese, Ottoman Turks | On the east coast of Africa, the Swahili trading cities continued their commerce with the Indian Ocean with both the ______ & the _______ _____. | 43 | |
137515007 | Shaka | 1818, assumed the leadership of the Zulu chiefdom of the Nguni people of southern Africa. | 44 | |
137515008 | William Wilberforce | British opponent of the slave trade. | 45 |
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