Ch 14-16 Vocab

Question 1

Indian Ocean commercial network

Answer 1

Network discovered by Europeans desire for tropical spices. Payed gold or silver for goods

Question 2

Trading post empire

Answer 2

A strategically placed empire/colony as a trading post

Question 3

Philippines

Answer 3

Takeover and colonial establishment of islands near Spain

Question 4

British east India company

Answer 4

Displaced the Portuguese, both militarily and economically stronger, focused on textiles

Question 5

Tokugawa shogunate

Answer 5

Supreme military rulers who closed off trading with Europe

Question 6

“Silver drain”

Answer 6

Silver deposits in Spanish America and central Asia, a tax was placed on it

Question 7

Potosi

Answer 7

Large city that exists because of silver deposits

Question 8

“Soft gold”

Answer 8

A nickname for the fur trade that nearly eradicated the deer population in Europe

Question 9

African diaspora

Answer 9

The transatlantic “spread” of African people (slave trade)

Question 10

Benin/Dahomey

Answer 10

African communities that took advantage of the slave trade commercially

Question 11

Protestant reformation

Answer 11

The religious movement that attempted to reform the Catholic Church, giving rise to Protestantism

Question 12

Catholic counter reformation

Answer 12

The response to the protestants and an attempt to reform itself

Question 13

Taki Onqoy

Answer 13

A religious revival in Peru to destroy Christianity and renew the Andean golden age

Question 14

Jesuits in China

Answer 14

The recorders of the success of the Qing government

Question 15

Wahhabi Islam

Answer 15

Major Islamic movement that pushed for a stricter adherence to Islamic law

Question 16

Wang yangmin

Answer 16

Chinese philosopher who argued for education in Confucianism

Question 17

Kaozheng

Answer 17

Chinese movement where officials emphasized the importance on evidence and analysis

Question 18

Mirabai

Answer 18

16th century poet who shook the idea of female roles by being more devoted to god

Question 19

Sikhism

Answer 19

The doctrines of a religion combining both Hinduism and Islam

Question 20

Copernicus

Answer 20

Polish astronomer who designed the first solar system with the sun in the center

Question 21

Newton

Answer 21

English mathematician and physicist

Question 22

European enlightenment

Answer 22

Scientific success could be credited to reason

Question 23

Voltaire

Answer 23

Greatest enlightenment thinker, embodies the centuries ideas

Question 24

Condorcet and the idea of progress

Answer 24

French philosopher who argued that society was to cure itself of slavery, racism, tyranny, etc by reason

Question 25

The great dying

Answer 25

The pandemic of old world diseases brought by the Colombian exchange that killed 90% of Native Americans

Question 26

Colombian exchange

Answer 26

A global exchange of goods that brought a commercial revolution

Question 27

Peninsulares

Answer 27

Highest social class made of Spanish born immigrants

Question 28

Mestizo

Answer 28

A person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage

Question 29

Mulattos

Answer 29

African/European citizens who were denied basic rights

Question 30

Plantation complex

Answer 30

Agricultural systems based on slavery

Question 31

Settler colonies

Answer 31

Colonies where minority Europeans lived among majority native Americans

Question 32

Siberia

Answer 32

A region of centers Russia covered in ice

Question 33

Yasak

Answer 33

Tax the Russian rulers demanded from the people of Siberia

Question 34

Qing dynasty

Answer 34

1644-1912 expanded the Chinese territory north, assimilated other cultures resulting in a mixed race

Question 35

Mughal empire

Answer 35

Muslim state that ruled India in the 16-17th centuries

Question 36

Akbar

Answer 36

Sultan (ruler) of the Mughals, showed religious tolerance

Question 37

Aurangzeb

Answer 37

Mughal emperor who established strict law that lead to its downfall

Question 38

Ottoman Empire

Answer 38

Islamic state that encompassed most of the west after the Byzantine

Question 39

Constantinople 1453

Answer 39

The fall of Constantinople to the ottomans

Question 40

Devshirme

Answer 40

Taking boys from Christian communities and training them in the ottoman military