Hist 202 Exam 1 Flashcards
Most advanced economy in the world before 18th century
China
Why women in Southeast Asia tended to have more economic power than women in India, China, and Europe
They took primary role in planting/harvesting rice
By the mid-16th century, this empire had established control over eastern Mediterranean routes to trading centers in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the rest of North Africa
Ottoman empire
The event occurred in the Byzantine Empire in the late 15th century that limited Europe’s access to spices from the East
Ottoman armies conquered Constantinople and took control of trade routes to the
East
The indigenous group first encountered by Columbus
Taino
The issue debated by the assembly called by Charles V in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550
The exploitation of the native population of the Americas
What the Spanish discovered at PotosÌ in 16th century
Silver, large quantities
The encomienda system, established by the Spanish crown, allowed them to do this
Exact tribute / forced labor from the native people on a particular piece of land
How far west Zheng He explored in the 15th century
Egypt
Where Italian merchants originally purchased slaves
The Balkans
Turks orirgin
Mongolia
Janissaries purpose
Elite Ottoman slave soldiers
Religious basis of the Safavid Dynasty?
Shi’ite Islam
Used by Akbar to help govern his vast empire
Four co-equal ministers
How Aurangzeb angered his subjects
Failed to take Bengal
Where first use of coffee was traces by Arabs
Sufi religious rituals in Yemen
What Aurangzeb did to enforce a more Islamic culture
Forbade sati and abolished all taxes not authorized by Islamic law
Treaty of Paris (1763) gave India to this country
Britain
Ottoman practice that Shah Abbas of the Safavids adopted
Army of slaves
Suleiman / Francis I of France formed an alliance to prevent the expansion in Europe of this ruling family
Habsburgs
