1450-1700 Flashcards
Italian Navigator who attempted to find a westward route to Asia under the sponsorship of King Ferdinand
Christopher Colombus
In 1453 Ottomans captured Byzantine Empire
Conquest of Constantinople
Portuguese ship inspired by the dhow
Caravel
Arab Sailing vessel
Dhow
Triangular sail used for sailing
Lateen Sail
Chinese built Cargo Ship
Junk
Large investor-based companies
Joint Stock Companies
Economic system focused on maintaining a positive balance
Mercantilism
Relied entirely on slave labor in Brazil and the Caribbean
Sugar Cultivation
Chemical explosives developed by the Chinese
Gunpowder
The empire that Reunified India in 1526
Muhgals
Successor of the Mali Empire in the 1500s
Songhai
People of Spanish blood born in the Americas
Creoles
Person of European and Indigenous mixed
Mestizos
Person of American and Spanish mixed
Mulatto
Nomadic group From Northeast China Ruled the Quing Dynasty
Manchu
Modernized Russia, Tzar of Russia from 1682-1725
Peter The Great
Ruled Japan from 1600-1867
Tokugawa Shogunnate
Class of Lords in the Feudal system
Daimyo
Trade between Europe and Africa
Triangular Trade
Spanish system of land grants that allowed colonists to force manual labor
Encomienda
Spanish system of landed estates in colonies
Haciendas
Was the leader of the Formerly enslaved Group of African Maroons
Queen Nanny of the Maroons
Invented in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg in 1456
Printing Press