AP World History Unit III Flashcards

166009789	Commercial Revolution	economic and political expansion, spurred mercantilism and colonialism	0
166009790	Prince Henry the Navigator	sponsored early voyages of exploration (Portugal)	1
166009791	Christopher Columbus	New World	2
166009792	Ferdinand Magellan	first trip around the world	3
166009793	Dutch East India Company	govt sponsored joint stock, controlled spice trade	4
166009794	British East India Company	controlled India, spice trade after Dutch	5
166009795	Treaty of Tordesillas	split west between Portugal and Spain	6
166009796	Columbian Exchange	plants, animals, disease b/t New and Old Worlds	7
166009797	Northwest Passage	route to Indies through Canada	8
166009798	Middle Passage	slave route	9
166009799	Bartolome de Las Casas	fought against harsh treatment of natives	10
166009800	Potosi	silver mine in Bolivia	11
166009801	conquistador	Spanish conqueror of Americas	12
166009802	colonization	taking over another place and bringing in your own settlers	13
166009803	joint-stock company	early corporation, raised money to fund explorations	14
166009804	mercantilism	economic system, must have favorable balance of trade	15
166009805	creoles	European born in America	16
166009806	mestizos	Spanish and native mix	17
166009807	mulatto	African/European mix	18
166009808	peninsulares	born in Europe	19
166009809	encomienda	system which person received grant of land and used natives who lived there	20
166009810	viceroyalty	Spanish province in the Americas	21
166009811	caravel	Portuguese ships	22
166009812	triangular trade	Americas/Europe/Africa	23
166009813	sugar plantation	high need for labor, extended slavery	24
166009814	Louis XIV	absolutist ruler of France	25
166009815	Act of Toleration	religious freedom-Christianity	26
166009816	Enlightenment	intellectual movement based on reason	27
166009817	Italian Renaissance	cultural movement	28
166009818	Northern Renaissance	cultural movement	29
166009819	Jesuits	Catholic religious order (missionary)	30
166009820	Cossacks	peasants recruited to settle Siberia	31
166009821	Estates General	meeting of the three states of France	32
166009822	Reconquista	Spanish overthrow of the Moors	33
166009823	Protestant Reformation	religious movement to reform the Catholic church	34
166009824	Ninety Five Theses	Luther's list of complaints against the Catholic church	35
166009825	Martin Luther	leader of Protestant Reformation	36
166009826	Scientific Revolution	began using Scientific Method (experimentation)	37
166009827	Adam Smith	economist, free trade and capitalism	38
166009828	baroque architecture	used to show power (Louis XIV)	39
166009829	philosophes	thinkers of the Enlightenment	40
166009830	absolute monarchy	all power rests with the queen/king	41
166009831	boyars	Russian nobles	42
166009832	divine right	God given right to rule	43
166009833	nation state	single government, common culture/identity	44
166009834	parliamentary monarcy	shared power b/t royalty and parliament	45
166009835	sovereignty	freedom from control	46
166009836	heliocentric theory	earth revolves around the sun	47
166009837	indulgence	pardon from sins	48
166009838	laissez faire	hands off	49
166009839	proto-industrialization	shift from ag. to making products at home	50
166009840	Tokugawa Shogunate	Japanese ruling dynasty, isolation	51
166009841	Ming Dynasty	voyages to show power	52
166009842	Zheng He	leader of Ming voyages	53
166009843	Janissaries	Ottoman troops	54
166009844	Isfahan	capital of Safavid	55
166009845	Tanzimat Reforms	western influenced, railroads, postal, etc.	56
166009846	viziers	bureaucrat of Ottomans	57
166009847	millet system	division under a religious leader	58