12912608750 | Tokugawa Shogunate | for 700 years, feudal Japan was under the rule of these japanese military leaders | 0 | |
12912608751 | Ottoman Empire | Turkic empire establishes in Asia minor that eventually extended through the Middle East and the Balkans, conquered Constantinople in 1453 that ended the Byzantine Empire | 1 | |
12912608752 | Potosi | Mine located in upper Peru (modern Bolivia); largest of New World silver mines; produced 80 percent of all Peruvian silver. | 2 | |
12912608753 | Mughal Empire | Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 3 | |
12912608754 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | 4 | |
12912608755 | Indulgences | Selling of forgiveness by the Catholic Church. It was common practice when the church needed to raise money. The practice led to the Reformation. | 5 | |
12912608756 | Copernicus | Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) | 6 | |
12912608757 | Joint Stock Companies | An association of individuals whose pooled resources provided them stock much like a corporation. Together they shared risks, losses, and profits. Commonly used in trade/exploration ventures. | 7 | |
12912608758 | Mulattoes | People of African and European descent | 8 | |
12912608759 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. | 9 | |
12912608760 | Mestizo | a person of mixed European and Native American ancestry | 10 | |
12912608761 | European Enlightenment | a movement in 18th century europe that advocated the use of reason, and questioning of long-held ideas | 11 | |
12912608762 | Creoles | Descendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status. | 12 | |
12912608763 | British East India Company | an early joint-stock company; were granted on English royal charter with the intention of favoring trade privileges in India | 13 | |
12912608764 | Sikhism | Syncretic religion founded by Nanak that blended Islamic and Hindu beliefs | 14 | |
12912608765 | John Locke | Enlightenment thinker that believes all people are born with the rights of life, liberty, and property, Gov't is to protect people's rights, and if it doesn't people can overthrow it | 15 | |
12912608766 | Qing Dynasty | dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Focused on rejuvenating Chinese culture after years of Mongol rule. Immense Ocean trade we are just headed by Zheng He were launched and later abandoned under its rule | 16 | |
12912608767 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General, the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. | 17 | |
12912608768 | 3rd Estate | 97% of the population that did not include aristocrats or clergy | 18 | |
12912608769 | Napoleon Bonaparte ( Mr. Ewers hero ) | A French general, political leader, and emperor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. After the french revolution he crowned himself emperor in 1804. He conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion in Russia | 19 | |
12912608770 | Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican priest who led peasants in call for independence and improved conditions | 20 | |
12912608771 | Declaration of the rights of man | Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution. | 21 | |
12912608772 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | "Napoleón of the West" and led the revolution in Haiti that defeated the French | 22 | |
12912608773 | Dona Marina | indigenous Nahum woman who acted as a translator for the Spanish conquistadors, especially Hernán Cortés | 23 | |
12912608774 | Ursula de Jesus | a latin american woman whose mother had been a slave; she entered into a convent and became a symbol of non-europeans adopting Christianity | 24 | |
12912608775 | Mirabai | a female Hindu bhakti poet | 25 | |
12912608776 | Marie Antoinette | Austrian archduchess that married prince Louis Cathay (King Louis XVI) of France. She was a symbol of the extravagant spending of the Bourbon Dynasty | 26 | |
12912608777 | Lycee | public schools found in France during Napoleon's reign | 27 | |
12912608778 | Taki Onqoy | a native religious revivalist Movement in Peru after the Spanish brought and imposed Christianity | 28 | |
12912608779 | Sans Culotte | Members of the French middle-class who went "without breeches" they didn't wear the style of the French elite only wearing simple trousers as a display of their political views | 29 | |
12912608780 | Devishirme | literally "selection" , The Ottoman policy of selecting Christian children from the Balkans converting them to Islam, enslaving them and providing varied educations to suit their talents | 30 | |
12912608781 | Benin/Dahomey | Slave selling Kingdom on the slave coast of Africa | 31 | |
12912608782 | St. Domingue (Haiti) | French island colony that produced much of the worlds sugar and coffee | 32 | |
12912608783 | Dessalines | Took over the Haitian Revolution after Louverture was captured and jailed by the French | 33 | |
12912608784 | Vicente Guerrero | Mulatto:Mestizo mixed guerilla fighter that helped defeat the Spanish colonial forces in Mexico | 34 | |
12912608785 | Plan of Iguala | The decision to make a combined army of creole military leaders and Mexican guerilla forces and to defeat Spanish colonial forces and to create a new nation, Mexico | 35 | |
12912608786 | Constitutional Monarchy | A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. | 36 | |
12912608787 | Divine right kingship | a general term used for the ideas surrounding the authority and legitimacy of a monarch holding that a monarch derives his or her right to rule from the will of God and not from any temporal authority | 37 | |
12912608788 | Glorious Revolution | bloodless transition that replaced King James II with William and Mary as the rulers of England | 38 | |
12912608789 | Great Dying | it refers to the death of Americans because of multiple infectious diseases it caused a sharp decline in the American population which led to an insufficient in mining labor therefore Europeans decided to get slaves from Africa to work on mining fields | 39 | |
12912608790 | Little Ice Age | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable. | 40 | |
12912608791 | Peninsulares | people who had been born in Spain; only people who could hold office in the Spanish colonial empire | 41 | |
12912608792 | plantations | Large agricultural fields that were primarily found in the Americas where sugar caught in tobacco and other cash crops were grown | 42 | |
12912608793 | Settler Colonies | A specific colonial formation whereby foreign family units move into a region and reproduce an imperial power oversees the immigration of the settlers who consent often only temporarily to government by that authority | 43 | |
12912608794 | Mercantilism | theory that a nation's economic strength came from protecting and increasing its home economy by keeping strict control over its colonial trade | 44 | |
12912608795 | trading post empire | Began in the 16th century by the Portuguese. Instead of conquering an entire nation, European states would establish these in an attempt to force merchant vessels to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties there. | 45 | |
12912608796 | Dutch United East India Company | an early joint-stock company; were granted on Dutch Royal charter with the intention of favoring trade privileges in south east Asia and the Indian ocean | 46 | |
12912608797 | Global Silver Trade | the trade was Controlled mostly by the Spanish and the item they traded eventually had disastrous effects on the Spanish economy | 47 | |
12912608798 | Global Fur Trade | this was termed "soft gold" And was traded by the Russian in Siberia and the French and British in North America | 48 | |
12912608799 | African Diaspora | refer to Africans "scattered" across national boundaries who do not physically inhabit the territory or nation state of their or their ancestors origin the main cause of this was the slave trade | 49 | |
12912608800 | Protestant Reformation | a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the pope's authorit | 50 | |
12912608801 | Catholic Counter Reformation | a 16th century movement in which the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response to the Protestant Reformation | 51 | |
12912608802 | Jesuits in China | a missionary group that interacted with Confucianists that tried to convince them that Confucianism is similar to Christianity and that their religious values are the same | 52 | |
12912608803 | Wahhabi Islam | this group's interpretation of the religion believes that it was at its purest form in 7th century Arabia and that to be a true believer one must only follow their sect of the religion | 53 | |
12912608804 | Kaozheng | this Qing dynasty perspective on classical texts was influenced by European mathematics and astronomy. It emphasized verifying the authenticity of ancient texts and challenged Neo-Confucianism | 54 | |
12912608805 | Isaac Newton | this influential European discovered gravitational theory and applied it to the laws of the universe | 55 | |
12912608806 | Galileo | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars and was later prosecuted by the Catholic church for his scientific beliefs | 56 | |
12912608807 | Concordat | agreement between the government and the catholic church that agreed to stay out of politics | 57 | |
12912608808 | Voltaire | he was a key thinker/writer and was dissatisfied with the way things are; most outspoken of traditional Christianity. He was influential in the creation process of the 1st Amendment in the US Constitution | 58 | |
12912608809 | American Revolution | the colonists revolted against the colonial government because of lack of representation in Parliament, the stamp act and increases in taxation and because of the economic effects following the French and Indian war in the late 18th century | 59 | |
12912608810 | Declaration of Independence | the document approved by representatives of the American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence | 60 | |
12912608811 | American Constitution | this formal document created after the constitutional conventions that included 3 branches of government, separation of powers and was also a model for the revolutions that followed | 61 | |
12912608812 | Estates-general | an assembly of representatives from all three estates the met to address the political and economic problems that occurred because of the disastrous policies of Louis XVI | 62 | |
12912608813 | Louis XVI (16th) | this monarch reigned in France under the old regime that had terrible economic policy leading to an increase in taxes and eventually a full-blown revolution that ended the monarchy | 63 | |
12912608814 | Legislative Assembly | This legislative body ruled France during the First French Republic | 64 | |
12912608815 | Maximilien Robespierre | this person was a revolutionary leader in France. He led the Reign of Terror but was executed after being branded an enemy of the revolution | 65 | |
12912608816 | èmigré | any of the Frenchman at first mostly aristocrats who fled France in the years following the French revolution of 1789 from their places of exile in other countries many plotted against the revolutionary government seeking foreign help in their goal of restoring the old regime | 66 | |
12912608817 | Spanish Philippines | this territory was named after King Philip II. It was a relatively bloodless take over of the islands that were targeted for the spice trade in Asia. the local were also converted forcefully to Catholicism | 67 | |
12912628244 | I hope everyone passes ((: | sincerely , Carlos Anguiano | 68 |
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