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| 8150967224 | Atlantic System What:* | New system of trade and expansion that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas. (Emerged in the wake of European's voyages across the Atlantic Ocean | 0 | |
| 8150981207 | Atlantic System What did What: | Africa supplied labor(Slaves), America supplied land and minerals, and Europeans supplied technology and military power to hold the system together. | 1 | |
| 8150987603 | Atlantic System Significance:* | The wealth flows to Europe and the slave-based development of the America's altered the world's balance of power. | 2 | |
| 8151006728 | Aztec Empire What:* | Mesoamerica empire that originated with a league of three Mexico cities in 1430 and gradually expanded through the central valley of Mexico. | 3 | |
| 8151015655 | Aztec Empire Significance:* | United numerous small, independent states under a single monarch who ruled with the help of counselors, military leaders, and priests. Embraced over 25 million people and created the 365 day calendar. | 4 | |
| 8151075762 | Aztec Empire reason of falling: | In 1521, they were defeated by the conquistador, Hernan Cortez. Fell due to the divisions among elites and pressures from the periphery and also the Spanish attacking unintentionally releasing disease killing hundreds. Also constant wars led to instability | 5 | |
| 8151093044 | Jean Calvin* | A french theologian during the protestant reformation. | 6 | |
| 8151211453 | Jean Calvin Significance* | Developed a christianity that emphasized moral regeneration through Church teachings and laid out a doctrine of predestination(Tue notion that each person is predestined for damnation or salvation even before birth.) Helped cause the Protestant Reformation. | 7 | |
| 8151509467 | Jean Calvin Need to Know | Promised that that reformed version of Christianity provided both an answer to individual spiritual needs and a new moral foundation for community life | 8 | |
| 8151241813 | Columbian Exchange* | Movements between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas of previously unknown plants, animals, people, diseases, and products that followed in the wake of Columbus's voyages. | 9 | |
| 8151248677 | Columbian Exchange Significance* | *Caused a decimation of the Amerindian population by European diseases causing the Europeans to benefit, all sides adopted new forms of agriculture from one another new fruits as well*, and Europeans destroyed chopped down trees causing the America's to have a European look. | 10 | |
| 8151281740 | Conquistadors* | Spanish military leaders who led the conquest of the new world in the 16th century | 11 | |
| 8151283571 | Conquistadors Significance* | Colonized the Americas and allowed for diffusion of food,animals, etc(Columbian Exchange). Also exploited and killed off many natives | 12 | |
| 8151301969 | Counter-Reformation* | Movement to counter the spread of the reformation; limited by the Catholic Church at the council of Trent in 1545 | 13 | |
| 8151444889 | Counter reformation Significance* | Split the European society deeply as both Catholics and Protestants vigorously promoted their faiths. Jesuits were founded to revive the Catholic Church during this time | 14 | |
| 8151453070 | Encomenderos* | Commanders of the labor services of the colonized peoples in Spanish america | 15 | |
| 8151457387 | Encomenderos Significance* | They were allowed to force labor upon the amerindians killing many of them. Also benefited the crown and themselves as they had to pay special taxes on the precious metals they extracted. | 16 | |
| 8151484825 | Holy Roman Empire* | Aspired to be the Christian successor state to the Roman Empire. Was a loose confederation of principalities that obeyed an emperor elected by elite lower-level soverigns | 17 | |
| 8151523143 | Holy roman EMpire significance * | Weakened by the ferocious religious wars, and it split into austrian and spanish factions due to it never centralizing power. | 18 | |
| 8151531793 | Incan Empire* | Empire of Quechua speaking rulers in the Andean Valley of Cuzco that encompassed a population of 4 to 6 million. | 19 | |
| 8151536037 | Inca Significance* | Incas lacked a clear inheritance system causing an internal split that Pizarro's forces exploited | 20 | |
| 8151538289 | Jesuits* | Religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola to counter the inroads of the Protestant reformation | 21 | |
| 8151545665 | Jesuits significance* | Were active in politics, education and missionary work, helped cause the Reformation to split European society more deeply causing warefare. Also opened missions far and wide around the world. | 22 | |
| 8151551021 | Martin Luther* | A German Monk and theologist who sought to reform the Catholic Church: He believed in salvation through faith alone, the importance of reading scripture, and the priesthood of all belivers. | 23 | |
| 8151559744 | Martin Luther Significance* | His ninety-five theses, which enumerated the abuses of the Catholic Church as well as his reforms, started the Protestant reformation | 24 | |
| 8151565954 | Protestant Reformation | Religious movement initiated in the sixteenth century by monk Martin Luther. People who followed believed that Christians could speak directly to god and that the Catholic Church was corrupt. | 25 | |
| 8151572953 | Protestant Reformation Significance | Caused a split in Europe making way for warfare. | 26 | |
| 8151579453 | Mughal Empire* | One of the Islam's greatest regimes, established in the sixteenth century. A vigorous, centralized state whose political authority encompassed most of modern-day India. | 27 | |
| 8151584485 | Mughal Empire Significance* | Religious tolerance allowed for a multifaceted spiritual kingdom under one political roof. Maintained formal unity and kept Europeans on the margins. | 28 |
