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Major religion of the Ottoman Empire
Islam/muslim
Devshirme System
Solotan Army drafted christian boys for their army
Educated them and converted the to Islam
Janissaries
elite force of 30,000 soldiers loyal only to the Sultan
many were converted christian boys
who was Suleiman the Magnifecent and what did he do for the Ottomans?
Expanded their empire
efficient/culturul achievements
Ottoman empire trade activity
huge traders
controlled Silk Road
What religion was ottoman army?
Muslim
What ottoman empire religious tolerant?
Yes, millet system gave othr religions power over their people
How did Ottoman Empire expand?
WIth their strong army, wealth, efficient gov. and loyalty
Mughal Empire religions
Hindu and Islam
WHo was Akbar the Great and what did he do
Akbar ws religiously tolerant
Expanded Empire, stengthened trade
Was Mughal Empire religiously tolerant?
Aurangzeb wasnt(strict Islam) but Akbar the great was
What was the Tokugawa Shogunate?
Power holders in apan until 1867
How did Tokugawa control the nobles?
Alternate Attendance Policy
Japan Excluion Edicts
Closed all trade with foreigners except the Dutch and Chinese
WHat was Edo?
Capital City of Tokugawa Shogunate
Alternate Attendance Policy
Nobles/Daimyo had to live in capital city every other year, their family lived there all the time
Absolute Monarch
King/Queen with absolute control/power
What did Peter the Great and Louis XIV have in common
Both wanted total control over nobles\both wanted to be educated
What was Louis XIV known as
Sun King
How was Louis XIV absolute
required all nobles to live at the Palace of Versailles
Made all decisions
Peter the Great Westernization
Made russia look/feel more European
Peter the Great new laws
Men cut beards, shorter coats, modern dress
How was Peter the Great absolute
Power/control
Palace of Versailles
Large Palace built to show Frances power
How of King, Nobles, and Government
Trade routes
Conncected all continents for spices, natural resources, raw materials
Colombian Exchange/Triangular Trade
Great Britain, Dutch, French, Spanish trade
Two contries that remained isolated from trade were
China and Japan
Scientific Revolution
A period of drastic change in scientific thought in the 1500s-1600s
What is the scientific method
Observation, measurement, experiment, data collection, and hypothesis to explain phenomenon
WHo came up with the scientific method
Sir Francis Bacon
issac Newton
Unversal Law of Gravity
Renee Descartes
Deductive Reasoning
How did the church feel about scientific method
Challenged their authority and power
What was the enlightenment
Intellectual and philosophical movement in Europe ding 16-1700s
who was Thomas Hobbes/what did he believe in/what did he write
The Leviathan
Absolute Monarch/ best type of government
people are born wicked and evil
What did the enlightenment inspire?
French and American revolution
Peole with overthrow their government
Who was John Locke? What did he write? SWHat did he believe?
Two Treatises of Gov.
Natural Rights are life, liberty, and property
People are born with a blank slate
Democracy is best type of Gov.
Montesquiu believed in
Separation of Powers
3 branches f Gov.
Voltaire believed
Freedom of speech
Religious Toleratio
Rousseau believed
Social Contrat theory
Mary Wolstoncraft
Womens rights and equality
Enlightened Despot
Monarch that used enlightenment ideas while ruling
what did Catherine the Great do to be considered enlightened
Considered a law code where everyone was equal before the law
From russia
what did Fredrick the Great do to be considered enlightened
Supported arts and philosophies
Freedom of press and literature
Semi-religiously tolerant
From Prussia
What did Joseph II do to be considered enlightened?
Equal law code, no death penalty, ended all censorship, religious toleration
From Austria
Who was the most enlightened despot
Joseph II
Who was the most enlightened despot
Joseph II
Galileo accomplishments
Invented teelescope
Proved heliocentric theory
challened the church hich led to him being on house arrest
Who came up with the geocentric theory?
Ancient Astonomer Ptolemy
Who came up with the heliocetric theory?
Nicolas Copernicus
Natural rights
Life, liberty, and property (John Locke)
First Estate Rights
Clergy, no taxes paid, kept all records, collected taxes
Second estate rights
Nobles
no taxes paid
collected taxes
could hunt on any land in France
Who was in the third estate
everyone else/ Bourgeoise
Pad ALL taxes, no hunting rights, no rights
Complaints of third estate
Equal taxes, all estates should pay
Social equality, king is abusing power
How are third estates wnats supported by enlightenment
idea of equality and limited government
How were Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette treating their poeple before the revolution
ABusing their power, spending the tax money on palace and parties, supported the 1sr and 2nd estate, arbitrary arrests and jail for anyone
Declaration of Right of Man
A list of rights written by the third estate declaring equality beofre the law, natural rights = taxes and limited power of government (review this doc)
National Assembly
After the tennis court oath, the 3rd estate spearated and decared themselves the National Assembly that wrote a new constitution for Franc with limited monarchy
What happened to Louis XIV
Tred after trying to escape France
Killed by the guillotine
Maximellen Robespierre
Leader of Reign of Terror
Killed people against the revolution
censorship and fear
How was Robespierre killed?
Guillotine
Committee of Public Safety
Hunted down and killed those against the Revolution
Fear and censorship
Guillotine
Cut your head off
How did Napoleon use a coup
Overthrw the directry of 5 men
Then he overthrew the 2 men he came in power with
Actions emperor Napoleon took while in power
expanded French empire all over Europe
Jobs based on merit, not birth
Napoleonic Code
WHat is the Napoleonic Code
Equal law for everyone in the french Empire
Even conquered people
Women still not equal
Napoleonic Wars Mistake #1
Cut off all tade with Britian
Forced everyone not to trade with Britain
People werent happy
Napoleonic Wars mistake #2
Russia used scorched earth policy and got his forces stuck in Russia in the middle of winter
Napoleon did not retreat and thousands of his forces died
Where was Napoleon exiled
Elba first
he escaped and tried to regain power but lost the battle at waterloo
Exiled and died on St. Helena Island
What were the 2 historical circumstances that led to Congess of Vienna
Restore Europe back to original brders and monarchs from before Napolen
Restore balance of power
Waht did COngress of Vienna do and try to restore
Restore legitimate monarchs back to power
order and stability to Europe restored
Nationalism
Pride in ones country
What was Haiti a colony of
France
Who was Toussaint L´Overture
Slave who led rebellion against whites
WHy were people upset and started the Haiatian Revolution
Inequality/slavery
Outcome of Hatian Revolution
Renamed Haiti
First successfuul slave revolt
Freed from France
(Latin American Revolution) Simon Bolivar
George Washington of South America
¨The Liberator¨
Led independence of South America from Spain
Jose San MArtion (Latin American Revolution)
Helped Bolivar free south America
Father Miguel Hidalgo (Latin American Revolution)
Helped lead movement of Mexico from Spanish Control
Mazzini (Unification of Itlay)
Came up with the idea to unify Italy
Cavour Unification of Itlay)
Prie Minister of Piedmant Sardinia that led the ¨brains¨ of the whole unification operation
Garibaldi (Unification of Itlay)
Leader of Red Shirt Army that fought to Unify Italy
Otto Von Bismarck (Unifcation of Germany)
Prime Minister of Germany
led unification
first social welfare programs in germany
Otto Von Bismarck famous quote
¨Blood and Iron¨
this unified germany using nationalism and WAR
Agriculuture before mechanization
Slow, non-effiecient
throw seeds on land and the would blow away
Agricultural Rev.
New Technology to grow more food faster
Enclosure Movement
Build fences on common land and ¨enclosed farms¨ for people to rent and work on. Peasants lost their jobs and moved to the cities
Jethro Tull Seed Drill
Planrted seeds into the ground
More food grown
less seed waste
What happened dring the Irish potato famine
Potato crop diseased and unable to be eaten
WHat were two effects of the Irish Potato Famine
Many died
Many Irish moved to America
WHat happens to the farmers after mechaniation?
Lass need so many moved to the cities looking for jobs
Urbanization
Facotry Life
Horrible, long hours, low pay, deaths, no benefits, women and children worked, child labor, unsafe
City life
crowded, gross, smelled, disease riden, crime, tenements
The geographic context for the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
GB had tons of natural resources like coal and iron
Also had people, money and entreprenuers to start businesses
Who started capitalism
Adam Smith
What did Adam SMith write
The Wealth of Nations
Capitalism Ideology Laissez-Faire
Government is hands off the economy
SHould not interfere with regulations
Supply and demand runs the economy and it should fix itself
Pro business
Communism person and what did he write
Karl Marx
Wrote the communist Manifesto
Saw horrors of the industrial revolution
Communim Ideology
The workers will violently overthrow the owners and take over society
Becuas of that, everything should be publicly owned