15937283786 | Ottoman Empire | Rise: Group of Turks that sacked Constantinople Fall: Rulers killed off all good airs to the throne in order to keep their power for longer S: Janissaries P: Sultanate, Suliman the Great R: Sunni Islam I: Architecture T: Navy, gunpowder, military E: depended on the military Other: Modern Day Turkey, rivalry with Safavids | 0 | |
15937368431 | Safavid Empire | Rise: a group of Sufis Fall: combination of internal strife and outside invasions S: Pyramid style social structure P: Theocratic, Shah Abbas the Great R: Shi'a Islam I: Strong bureaucracy, city of Isfahan T: Gunpowder E: Stable until fall Other: Modern Day Iran, rivalry with Ottomans | 1 | |
16007823698 | Mughal | Rise: Babur took land in northern India Fall: Slow collapse due to internal revolts and expansive territory S: Used Hindu caste system P: Sultanate, Akbar the Great R: Islamic government, Hindu majority I: military, arts and architecture T: gunpowder E: Stable until after the rule of Aurangzeb Other: | 2 | |
16007828058 | Romanov/Russia | Rise: Out of the Kingdom of Moscow after period of anarchy Fall: Russian Revolution in 20th century S: Surf/Boyars/Tsars P: Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrable, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great R: Eastern Orthodox/Russian Orthodox I: Away from Mongol traditions, westernization T: westernization and western allies E: highly dependent on expansion Other: Lots of small internal rebellion (Pugachev Rebellion), lots of trade with the west put strain on Surfs | 3 | |
16007828059 | Ming China | Rise: Started by Zhu Yuanzhang Fall: Internal revolts S: Public humiliation of bureaucrats who committed crimes, scholar gentry, no more Mongols P: Emperors often came from humble upbringing, monarchy R: Confucianism I: Rise in the Arts T: ships and navigation E: good while they dominated Indian ocean trade, bad after self-isolation Other: Sudden stop of all trade basically killed the dynasty politically and economically | 4 | |
16007831423 | Qing China | Rise: Out of the fall of Ming Dynasty Fall: Opium wars Contributions: Fine arts, openness to trade and other belifs | 5 | |
16007839012 | Renaissance | Causes: Split of Rome, Abbasid Golden Age, European dark ages (plague) ended, Holy Roman Empire Effects: Merchant class got money and power, secular authority, new styles of art, literature, and science, challenging of the church Characteristics: honored classical Greece and Rome, modern definition of architecture, ninja turtle artists, Brunelleschi, started in Florance | 6 | |
16007854990 | Colombian Exchange | Causes: Exploration and discovery of the new world Effects: disease killed off majority of native population, plants and animals from both sides traded, coerced labor, slavery Characteristics: triangle trade, economic prosperity (europe), spread of catholothism, demolition of native american civilizations | 7 | |
16007858804 | Atlantic Slave Trade | Causes: plantation system in americas, labor needed to mine for gold and silver in the new world Effects: large slave population in new world, slavery became staple labor system in the americas Characteristics: ships overpacked with slaves, mistreatment, became cultural standard | 8 | |
16007867717 | Demographic Changes | Americas: most natives died from disease, slave trade brought Africans, europeans started to inhabit all of Americas Europe: population began to grow after the end of the black death Middle East and Asia: held fairly steady | 9 | |
16007872173 | Social, Political, and Economic Changes of Exploration and Exchange | Social: slavery, European domination of Americas, coerced labor involving surviving native Americans, spread of christianity Political: European bureaucratic systems took over American civilizations, expansion of European powers Economic: Gold, silver, land, American plants and other goods | 10 | |
16007889733 | Portuguese Exploration and Exchange | Brazil: gold/silver, lots of slaves, some american goods back to Portugal Africa: first to exploit slave trade, first to sail around the cape of good hope, traded with coast of west Africa and east Africa Southeast Asia: After sailing around the cape of good hope they traded with India and other southeast asian ports | 11 | |
16007889734 | Spanish Exploration and Exchange | Americas: colonized all of central America and most of South America, strong hierarchical system within bureaucracy in Americas, first to discover Americas, spread christianity Africa: participated in the slave trade with West Africa, sailed around the cape of good hope Southeast Asia: colonized and largely converted the Philippines to christianity | 12 | |
16007895571 | Dutch Exploration and Exchange | Americas: small colonies in North America, largest trade item was furs Africa: colonized South Africa but were killed by African disease when they tried to move north Southeast Asia: colonized much of Indonesia, most trade happened there | 13 | |
16007899164 | French Exploration and Exchange | Americas: only large colony (Quebec), mostly traded for furs, spread Christianity | 14 | |
16007903444 | British Exploration and Exchange | Americas: Colonized the majority of the eastern coast of North America, took Dutch colonies in North America so they had the whole northeastern seaboard, tried to control all trade in and out of the colonies | 15 | |
16007912326 | Martin Luther | Causes: was a monk of the Catholic Church, saw issues with the Church (corruption and need for money as well as the pope getting too much power) Effects: posted 95 problems with the church, started to gain followers, lutheran church created, other Protestant churches followed Characteristics: he was a monk from Germany, posted 95 reasons to the door of a church, the catholic church tried to prove him wrong but they couldn't so they excommunicated him | 16 | |
16007915387 | Holy Roman Empire | Causes: Rome collapsed, pope needed to protect his land Effects: kept power with the church, created political alliances Characteristics: unified much of Europe, started by Charlemagne ended with the Habsburgs of Austria | 17 | |
16007919127 | 95 Theses | Causes: the church was getting more and more corrupt in order to get more money, Martin Luther saw this and wrote a list of 95 things wrong with the Catholic Church Effects: Martin Luther was excommunicated and the Protestant reformation began to become more popular Characteristics: | 18 | |
16007926196 | Henry XII and Anglican Church | Causes: Henry XII wanted to get a divorce but the Pope wouldn't grant him one (he wanted a male hier, he created the Anglican Church (Church of England), Henry then had 6 wives and converted England to the Anglican Church Effects: Bloody Mary (first daughter) who tried to convert England back to Christianity by killing all protestants, Elizabeth I (second daughter) changed the official religion back to the Anglican Church but was open to Catholics living in England Important People: King Henry XII, 6 wives (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived), Bloody Mary, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots | 19 | |
16007944706 | Ulrich Zwingli | Created a protestant theocracy in Switzerland | 20 | |
16007944707 | John Calvin | Started Calvinism in southern France | 21 | |
16007969896 | Mit'a | Mandatory public service in Inca society, exploited by Spanish colonists | 22 | |
16007973955 | Encomienda | Spanish labor system in the American colonies which allowed the colonists to demand labor from the native peoples | 23 | |
16007977634 | Hacienda | System of plantations owned and run by Spanish colonists for profit | 24 | |
16007977635 | Chattel Slavery | African people being traded for, brought to a new place, treated as property rather then human | 25 | |
16007985509 | New Technologies | Navigational: Compass brought west from China, improved boats fit for crossing oceans, other navigational tools Practical: Printing Press Arts: New understanding of Roman engineering techniques, renaissance painting techniques | 26 | |
16007989259 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Culture: Military focused, powerful within Japan but lacked success in other places Isolation and Influence: Dutch (and some other Europeans) traded with Japan, 100,000+ Japanese converted to Christianity, self isolation & any Christians killed, trade with Dutch and Chinese continued but in limited capacity | 27 |
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