Chapters 20-22: The World Shrinks Flashcards
What are the three gunpowder colonies?
Benin, Asante, and Danomey
The Portuguese converted what ruler to Christianity?
Nzinga Mvemba of Kongo
What is the term used to describe the scattering of the 12 million slaves, mostly men, across America?
Diaspora
Luanda, a Portugal slave trading post, grew into what slaving colony?
Angola
What is the African religion still practiced in places like Haiti today?
Voodoo, formerly called Vodun
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?
Salt-water slaves
What is the term used to describe slaves whose families have been in the Americas for ages and were born in the Americas?
Creoles
What did slaves do to escape slavery while in South Africa?
Runaway to rainforest communities
The Gun and Slave cycle caused destructive wars, but some colonies in West Africa prospered. What are these colonies?
Benin, Asante, and Danomey
In South Africa, what settlers enslaved and displaces Africans?
Dutch
What is the name of the elite military of the Ottoman Empire?
Janissaries
How is the Sokoto Caliphate similar to Mali and Songhay?
Ruled by Muslims
What ruler of the Ottoman Empire built a famous mosk in Constantinople?
Suleyman the Magnificent
Who was part of the triangular trade and what did they trade?
- Europe- manufactured goods
- Africa- slaves
- Americas- raw goods
What Japanese shogunate isolated Japan from 1630 to the next 250 years?
Tokugawa
The ruler of the Mughal Empire was harsh to non-Muslim groups. The Hindus and what other group rises up in rebellion?
The Sikhs
What nation in the 1500s was briefly the world leader in firearms?
Japan
Who was the famous ruler of the Mughal Empire?
Akbar
The Mughal empire grew more powerful because the boom in demand of what?
Fine cotton textiles
What country in the Americas brought more slaves than any other?
Brazil
What is the name of the journey from Africa to America during the slave trade?
The Middle Passage
After the Ming Dynasty is overthrown by a peasant rebellion, what foreign group takes power?
The Manchu
What was the only country in Asia with significant conversions to Christianity?
Philippines
What black African militant group became dominant and fought other black African militant groups?
Zulu
What island in Indonesia was colonized by the Netherlands?
Java
Why does China’s population increase during the Ming Dynasty?
The introduction of sweet potatoes from the Americas (Columbian Exchange)
Who is the most famous ruler of the Safavid Empire?
Sha Abbas
Which Muslim gunpowder empire, centered in Anatolia, had territories in the Middle East, East Africa, and Europe?
The Ottoman Empire
Which Muslim gunpowder empire gave elite women more influence and status?
The Mughal Empire
What brought slavery to an end?
The Industrial Revolution made it cheaper to hire workers than to own slaves, the Enlightenment, and religious revivalism.
The Fulani are also known as what?
The Sokoto Caliphate
Africa becomes dependent on who?
Europeans
How many people were taken from Africa to the Americas?
12 million
Who is William Wilberforce?
An angelical Christian who influenced the abolition movement
Where was the Ottoman Empire centered?
Anatolia
What empire did not persecute other religions?
Ottoman Empire. They had to pay a special tax.
Palmaris, a community in South America, is know for being what?
A runaway slave community
What is the name of the naval battle in 1571 between the Ottoman Turks and the European Spanish?
Battle of Lapanto
Where was the Safavid Empire?
Persia
What type of Islam was practiced in the Safavid empire?
Shi’a Islam
Who is the famous leader of the Safavid Empire?
Shah Abbas the Great
What country was the last to abolish slavery?
Brazil
Where was the Mughal Empire located?
India
Who is the famous ruler of the Mughal Empire?
Akbar
The emperor of what empire built the Taj Mahal and Nur Jahan?
Mughal
The elite women in what empire where powerful?
Mughal (also Ottoman)
The Indonesian island of Java was whose colony?
Dutch
The Ming dynasty overthrew who to get power?
The Mongols
Neo- Confucianism became popular once again when what group gained more power again?
The scholar-gentry
More American silver end up where than anywhere else?
China
What is the name of the battle between Shi’a and Sunni Islams?
Battle of Chaldiran
What shogunate restores central rule in Japan?
Tokugawa Shogunate
What were the major developments of the Neolithic Revolution (8000 BCE)?
Agriculture and permanent settlements
What were the two leading civilizations during the period 600-1450?
Islam and China
What Asian nation had a feudal hierarchy similar to that of Europe?
Japan
What is the Great Trek?
When the Brits moved north after taking over the Boers by 1800
What year did Brazil abolish slavery?
1888
What empire conquered the Byzantines, Middle East, and North Africa?
Ottoman Empire
The Safavid empire thrived from trade of what?
Persian rugs
What were the Chinese willing to accept from the Europeans for trade?
Silver and gold
Who invaded the Safavid empire?
Afghans
What empire practiced Sati?
Mughal Empire
What country isolates itself from the rest of the world?
Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate
