World History AP (part III) Flashcards

276804817	Renaissance	The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history	0
276804818	Reformation	a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches	1
276804819	Counter-Reformation	the catholic church trying to restore its power after the creation of the protestant church; jesuits	2
276804820	Mercantilism	the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys	3
276804821	Reasons for European Exploration	Gold, Glory, God	4
276804822	Columbian Exchange	exchange from Americas to Europe, spread diseases, slaves, new animals, and crops	5
276804823	Absolutism	absolute power	6
276804824	Absolute Monarchy	Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Catheriene the Great	7
276804825	Russian Serfdom	new land in russia led to need for labor	8
276804826	European Colonization in LA	disease, killing, natives forces into labor, forced to become catholic	9
276804827	European Colonization on LA Society	Peninsulares (europeans)-creoles-mestizos-natives, europeans highest power now, natives forced into labor	10
276804828	Encomienda System	priviledge given by Spain to Spanish settlers in the Americas which allowed to control the lands and people of a certain territory	11
276804829	Adam Smith	capitalism	12
276804830	Karl Marx	communism	13
276804831	Rousseau	people are good but have been corrupted	14
276804832	Montesquieu	seperation of powers	15
276804833	John Locke	people have right to life, liberty, and property	16
276804834	Bourgeoisie	middle class	17
276804835	Laissez-faire	idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs	18
276804836	Industrial Revolution	the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation (west most industrialized)	19
276804837	Impact of French Revolution	industrialization, nationalism, imperialism	20
276804838	Toussaint L'Overture	led slave rebellion in Haiti	21
276804839	Miguel Hidalgo	Mexican priest who led peasants in call for independence	22
276804840	Simon Bolivar	revolts against spanish rule	23
276845847	European Effects on Africa	guns, new weapons, decrease of population, increase of catholicism, slave trade	24
276845848	Ming China	scholar-gentry, neo-Confucianism, civil service exam	25
276845849	Ottoman Decline	corruption, invasions	26
276845850	Safavid Decline	confining of princes, Abbas I, attacks of mughals, ottomans, etc	27
276845851	Mughal Decline	corruption, backwards warfare, too large= unstable	28