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Between 1450 and 1750, Western European countries made significant advances in sea travel. One of the primary reasons driving this progress was Western European countries desire to find what?

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A sea route to Asia.

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Capital

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Material wealth available to produce more wealth.

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Commerical Revolution

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The transformation to a trade-based economy using gold and silver.

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Price Revolution

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The high right of inflation, or general rise in prices in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Joint-stock companies

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Companies owened by the investors who bought stock or shares in them.

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Limited liability stock based companies protected investors from

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A company’s debts or other liabilities beyond the amount of an investor’s intial investment

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The Dutch, English and French all had joint-stock based companies in the 17th century but in Spain and Portugal, explorers were typically funded by

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The government

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Where did the Dutch East India Company make most of its profits

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The Spice Islands and Southeast Asia

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What features of Dutch ships gave the Dutch an advantage at trade?

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The ships were were faster and lighter than the shps of their rivals.

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What three areas of the world were involved in triangular trade?

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Europe, Africa, the Americas

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What country defeated Songhai Empire in 1590 at Gao?

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Moroccco

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What is a monopoly?

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When a merchant, joint-stock cmopany or government has the exclusive right to trade of a product or an industry

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What are two African societies involved with raiding and capturing slaves for European buyers?

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  1. Dahomey 2. Oyo
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More than two-thirds of Africans taken for slave trade were male. What was the effect on marriages in West Africa?

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An increase in polygyny - multiple women married to one man.

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Viceroys in the Americas

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Viceroys were Spanish appointed administrators in the Americas who were supposed to represent the interests of the crown.

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Audencias

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Royal courts established for appealing the decisions fo Viceroys.

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Creoles

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Inviduduals born the Americas who were descended from Spanish blood.

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Santeria

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A syncretic faith blending Catholocisim with African faith practices.

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Vodun

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A syncretic faith blending Christianity with religious beliefs of enslaved African peoples living in Haiti.

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Candomble

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A synredtic faith developed in Brazil blending Christianity with beliefs of enslaved Yoruba, Fon, and Bantu peoples.

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Due in part to several Catholic missionairies being sent to Latin America, the predominant religion of these areas became what religion?

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Roman Catholocisim

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What was the Virgin of Guadalupe cult?

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A cult developed around the dark complexioned saint developed in Mexico.

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The Fronde

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Civil disturbances ocurring in France between 1648 and 1653 that attempted to curb growing royal power.

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Metacom’s War

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English colonist used underhanded tactics to gain control of Native Ameircan lands.

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In 1624, who became the ruler of Ndongo in south-central Africa?

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Ana Nzinga

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To protect its citizens from slave raids and other countries, Ndongo became alies with what country?

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Portugal

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Whenthe alliance with Portugal broke down and Anna Nzinga fled west to Matamba, she allied her subjects with what country?

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The Dutch

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Where did the Cossacks live?

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The Cossacks lived Southwest of Mosco, near the Black Sea

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Yemelyan Pugachev

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Began a peasant rebellion against Catherine the Great in 1774 for giving nobility over the serfs to gain allegiance from the Russian nobility.

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The Maratha Empire

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The Maratha Empire was created by Hindu warriors who fought against muslim control

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The Glorious Revolution strenghthed the power of what British government body?

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Parliament

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Who was the last Catholic King of Britain

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King James II

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Gloucester County Rebellion

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The first recorded slave revolt in what is now the United States

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Maroon Wars

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Slaves in the Caribbean and former Spanish territories of the United States fought to gain their freedom.

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Queen Nanny

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An escaped Jamaican slave who united all the maroons on the island and led them to revolt against their owners and form independent settlements.

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Jews were expelled from most major European countries between 1290 to 1492. Where they find refuge?

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Sultan Mehmed II invited them to live in Istanbul in the the Ottoman Empire

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Viziers

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Strong advisors who spoke for the sultan in the Ottoman Empire.

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Timar

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In the Ottoman Empire, timar was a system where the Sultan granted land or tax revenue to those he favored to keep them loyal.

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Even though Jews were invited to live in the Ottoman Empire, they were not given the same rights as Muslims. What were some off the restrictions.

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  1. They had to pay a special tax imposed on non-Muslims. 2. they could only liven in certain neighborhoods in cities. 3. They could not hold top positions.
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Harem politics

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When powerful wives and concubines vied to have their own children promoted to the throne.

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Barbary Pirates

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Pirates who sailed the waters along North Africa and the Barbary Coast. They kidnapped Europeans and sold them to the Sultan or “pressed” them into service in the navy.

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What part of China did the founders of the Qing Dynasty come from?

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Manchuria

43
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The Qing Dynasty ruled from 1644 to what year?

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1912

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The Qing Dynasty were Manchu people. What ethnic group were the Chinese people they ruled over?

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Han Chinese

45
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Queue

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A braided pigtail hairstyle worn by the Manchus. This hairstyle was required to be worn by all men, including Han Chinese. This requirement was at odds with Confucianism and was a humiliating reminder for the Han Chinese who was boss. A man who refused to weart the Queue hairstyle could be executed.

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Li Chengddong and Liu Lianzuo

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Han Chinese defectors who helped Qing officials carry out massacres of Han cities who refuesed to assimilate.

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In England, large landowners controlled what?

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Parliament

48
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Louis XIV believed in his divine right to rule. He said, “I am the state.” Frederick of Prussia was very different however, What did he say?

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“I am the state.”

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Sephardic Jews

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Jews that can trace their ancestry back to Spain.

50
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Ashkenazi Jews

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Jews that can trace their ancestry back to Eastern Europe.

51
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In the 17th century, under the influence of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightment, prejudice against Jews…

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Declined

52
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After Ivan IV defeated the boyars at Novgorod, what did he do?

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seized their lands and forced them to move to Mosco

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What was the order of the casta system in Latin America?

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  1. Peninsulares - persons born in Europe 2. Criollos - persons of Spanish descent born in the Americas 3. Castas - persons of mixed-race ancestry 3a. Mestizos - mixed European and Indigenous person ancestory 3b. Mulattoes - mixed African and European ancestry 3c. Zambos mixed African and indigenous person ancestry
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When was a person’s casta assigned?

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At baptism

55
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Roxelana

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A European girl, kidnapped for the Sultan’s Harem. Eventually, she would rise to influential position in the Ottoman government. Her son would becoem Sultan.

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Columbian Exchange

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The biological exchange of crops, animals, people, and diseases bettween the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

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European domination of global trade came at the expense of who?

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Arab, Indian, and Chinese merchants

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In the 16th Century, Mercantilism gave way to what economic system?

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Capitalism

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In the 17th century, the increased flow of silver and gold to Europe caused what?

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inflation

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People being stolen for slavery caused a population decline in Africa. What evenually caused the African population to increase?

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Manioc and other crops brought over from the Americas.

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Prior to the 16th century, slaves were largely traded from where to where?

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East Africa to the Middle East

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Slave trade from East Africa to the Middle East was largely women were intended to be used for what?

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Harems as status symbols or domestic servants.

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What type of Islam did the Safavid Empire practice?

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Shi’ia Islam

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