AP World History 4 Flashcards

6018176193	an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude	Astrolabe	0
6018176194	a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries.	Caravel	1
6018176195	widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage	Columbian Exchange	2
6018176196	a silver coin, of approximately 38 mm diameter, worth eight reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after 1598.	Peso de Ocho	3
6018176197	originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade.	Dutch East India Company	4
6018176198	hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites (españoles) in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century.	Castas System	5
6018176199	legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies.	Encomienda System	6
6018176200	...	Cult of Saints	7
6018176201	The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome.	Renaissance	8
6018176202	German printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press. Gutenberg also invented the technique of printing with "movable type" — that is, with one piece of type for each letter, so that the type could be reused after a page was printed.	Johan Gutenberg	9
6018176203	propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin) and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg, on October 31, 1517. This event came to be considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.	95 Theses	10
6018176204	famous English poet and playwright who lived from 1564-1616 and produced countless sonnets and plays.	Shakespeare	11
6018176205	A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an aristocrat. The term means "land owner" in Persian. ... During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged to the nobility and formed the ruling class.	Mughal Zamindars	12
6018176206	large royal residence built in the seventeenth century by King Louis XIV of France in Versailles, near Paris.	Palace of Versailles	13
6018176207	Christian boys were recruited by force to serve the Ottoman government. The boys were generally taken from the Balkan provinces, converted to Islam, and then passed through a series of examinations to determine their intelligence and capabilities.	Ottoman Devshirme	14