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Chapters 20-22: The World Shrinks Flashcards

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What are the three gunpowder colonies?

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Benin, Asante, and Danomey

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The Portuguese converted what ruler to Christianity?

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Nzinga Mvemba of Kongo

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What is the term used to describe the scattering of the 12 million slaves, mostly men, across America?

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Diaspora

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Luanda, a Portugal slave trading post, grew into what slaving colony?

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Angola

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What is the African religion still practiced in places like Haiti today?

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Voodoo, formerly called Vodun

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What is the term used to describe slaves that were right off the boat and not trusted as much as slaves born in the Americas?

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Salt-water slaves

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What is the term used to describe slaves whose families have been in the Americas for ages and were born in the Americas?

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Creoles

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What did slaves do to escape slavery while in South Africa?

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Runaway to rainforest communities

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The Gun and Slave cycle caused destructive wars, but some colonies in West Africa prospered. What are these colonies?

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Benin, Asante, and Danomey

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In South Africa, what settlers enslaved and displaces Africans?

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Dutch

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What is the name of the elite military of the Ottoman Empire?

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Janissaries

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How is the Sokoto Caliphate similar to Mali and Songhay?

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Ruled by Muslims

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What ruler of the Ottoman Empire built a famous mosk in Constantinople?

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Suleyman the Magnificent

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Who was part of the triangular trade and what did they trade?

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  • Europe- manufactured goods
  • Africa- slaves
  • Americas- raw goods
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What Japanese shogunate isolated Japan from 1630 to the next 250 years?

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Tokugawa

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The ruler of the Mughal Empire was harsh to non-Muslim groups. The Hindus and what other group rises up in rebellion?

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The Sikhs

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What nation in the 1500s was briefly the world leader in firearms?

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Japan

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Who was the famous ruler of the Mughal Empire?

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Akbar

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The Mughal empire grew more powerful because the boom in demand of what?

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Fine cotton textiles

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What country in the Americas brought more slaves than any other?

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Brazil

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What is the name of the journey from Africa to America during the slave trade?

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The Middle Passage

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After the Ming Dynasty is overthrown by a peasant rebellion, what foreign group takes power?

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The Manchu

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What was the only country in Asia with significant conversions to Christianity?

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Philippines

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What black African militant group became dominant and fought other black African militant groups?

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Zulu

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What island in Indonesia was colonized by the Netherlands?

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Java

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Why does China’s population increase during the Ming Dynasty?

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The introduction of sweet potatoes from the Americas (Columbian Exchange)

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Who is the most famous ruler of the Safavid Empire?

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Sha Abbas

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Which Muslim gunpowder empire, centered in Anatolia, had territories in the Middle East, East Africa, and Europe?

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The Ottoman Empire

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Which Muslim gunpowder empire gave elite women more influence and status?

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The Mughal Empire

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What brought slavery to an end?

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The Industrial Revolution made it cheaper to hire workers than to own slaves, the Enlightenment, and religious revivalism.

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The Fulani are also known as what?

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The Sokoto Caliphate

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Africa becomes dependent on who?

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Europeans

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How many people were taken from Africa to the Americas?

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12 million

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Who is William Wilberforce?

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An angelical Christian who influenced the abolition movement

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Where was the Ottoman Empire centered?

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Anatolia

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What empire did not persecute other religions?

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Ottoman Empire. They had to pay a special tax.

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Palmaris, a community in South America, is know for being what?

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A runaway slave community

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What is the name of the naval battle in 1571 between the Ottoman Turks and the European Spanish?

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Battle of Lapanto

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Where was the Safavid Empire?

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Persia

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What type of Islam was practiced in the Safavid empire?

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Shi’a Islam

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Who is the famous leader of the Safavid Empire?

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Shah Abbas the Great

41
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What country was the last to abolish slavery?

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Brazil

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Where was the Mughal Empire located?

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India

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Who is the famous ruler of the Mughal Empire?

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Akbar

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The emperor of what empire built the Taj Mahal and Nur Jahan?

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Mughal

45
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The elite women in what empire where powerful?

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Mughal (also Ottoman)

46
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The Indonesian island of Java was whose colony?

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Dutch

47
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The Ming dynasty overthrew who to get power?

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The Mongols

48
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Neo- Confucianism became popular once again when what group gained more power again?

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The scholar-gentry

49
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More American silver end up where than anywhere else?

A

China

50
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What is the name of the battle between Shi’a and Sunni Islams?

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Battle of Chaldiran

51
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What shogunate restores central rule in Japan?

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Tokugawa Shogunate

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What were the major developments of the Neolithic Revolution (8000 BCE)?

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Agriculture and permanent settlements

52
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What were the two leading civilizations during the period 600-1450?

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Islam and China

53
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What Asian nation had a feudal hierarchy similar to that of Europe?

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Japan

54
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What is the Great Trek?

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When the Brits moved north after taking over the Boers by 1800

55
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What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

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1888

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What empire conquered the Byzantines, Middle East, and North Africa?

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Ottoman Empire

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The Safavid empire thrived from trade of what?

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Persian rugs

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What were the Chinese willing to accept from the Europeans for trade?

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Silver and gold

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Who invaded the Safavid empire?

A

Afghans

61
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What empire practiced Sati?

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Mughal Empire

62
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What country isolates itself from the rest of the world?

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Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate

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