Period 4 Ap World History Flashcards

5677827209	Entrepots	Trading st as tons at the borders between communities which made exchange possible among many different partners	0
5677827210	Colonies	Regions under the political control of another country	1
5677827211	Caravel	Sailing vessel suited for nosing in and out of estuaries and navigating waters with unpredictable currents and winds	2
5677827212	New World	Term applied to the Americas that reflected the Europeans' view that anything previously unknown to them was "new"	3
5677827213	Conquistadors	Spanish military leaders who led the conquest of the New World in the 16th century	4
5677827214	Mestizos	Mixed-blood of offspring of Spanish settlers and Native Indians	5
5677827215	Encomiendas	Grants from European Spanish governors to control the labor Services of colonized people	6
5677827216	Columbian Exchange	Movements between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas of previously unknown plants, animals, people, diseases, and products	7
5677827217	Smallpox	Disease that spread into the Americas by European settlers	8
5677827218	Plantation	An estate which crops are cultivated by resident labor	9
5677827219	Atlantic System	New system of trade and expansion, that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas	10
5677827220	Holy Roman Empire	Enormous realm that encompassed much of Europe and aspired to be the Christian successor state to the Roman Empire	11
5677827221	Protestant Reformation	Religious movement by Martin Luther who criticized the Catholic Church	12
5677827222	Counter-Reformation	Movement counter to the spread of the Reformation	13
5677827223	Jesuits	Religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola to counter the inroads of the Protestant Reformation	14
5677827224	Mercantilism	Economic theory that drove European Empire builders; one's wealth came from another's	15
5677827225	Chartered Companies	Firms that were awarded monopoly trading rights over vast areas by European monarchs	16
5677827226	Ecological Imperialism	Ideology that Europe settlers was successful and colonized Asia due to introduction of animal, plants, and disease to the new territories	17
5677827227	Muscovy	Huge realm that used territorial expansion and commercial networks to consolidate a state	18
5677827228	Serfdom	Peasants who farmed the land and paid fees to be protected and governed by the feudalism system	19
5677827229	Thirty Years' War	Conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in Germany that escalated into a general European War	20
5677827230	Enclosure	A movement in which landowners took control of lands that traditionally had been common property serving local needs	21
5677827231	Absolute monarchy	Form of government where one body, monarch, controls the right to tax, judge, make war, and coin money	22
5677827232	Seven Years' War	...	23
5677827233	Mehmed the Conqueror	...	24
5677827234	Topkapi Palace	Political headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, located in Istanbul	25
5677827235	Janissaries	Corps of infantry soldiers recruited as children from Christian provinces of the Ottoman Empire	26
5677827236	Mughal Empire	One of Islam's greatest regimes. Established in 1526 political authority income past India	27
5677827237	Zamindars	Archaic tax system of the Mughal empire where decentralized Lords collected tribute for the emperor	28
5677827238	Mamluks	Military man who ruled Egypt as an independent regime from 1250 to Ottoman Conquest in 1517	29
5677827239	Devshirme	System for taking a non-muslim children in place of taxes in order to educate them in Ottoman Muslim ways and prepare them to serve the sultan	30
5677827240	Akbar the Great	...	31
5677827241	Aurangzeb	...	32
5677827242	Monetization	And economic shift from a barter-based economy to one dependent on coin	33
5677827243	Canton System	System officially established by Imperial decree in 1759 that required European traders to have Chinese Guild Merchants act as guarantors for good behavior and payment for fees	34
5677827244	Madrasas	Hair schools of Muslim education that taught law,the Quran,religious sciences, and regular Sciences	35
5677827245	Taj Mahal	Royal Palace of the Mughal Empire built by Shah Jahan in the 17th century in homemage of his wife, Mumtaz	36
5677827246	Footbinding	...	37
5677827247	Cartography	Map making	38
5677827248	Tokugawa Ieyasu	...	39
5677827249	Daimyo	Ruling Lords who commanded private armies in pre-Meiji Japan	40
5677827250	Shinto	Japan's official religion	41
5677827251	Martin Luther	German who started the Protestant Reformation by posting 95 Theses	42