Quiz Chapter 14/15 Vocab Flashcards
1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies.
British and Dutch East Indian Companies
the massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the indian ocean (including e. africa, india, and se asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intruding beginning around 1500
Indian Ocean Commercial Network
city that developed high in the andes (in present day bolivia) at the site of the world’s largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the americas, with the population of some 16,000 in the 1750s
Potosi
term often used to describe the siphoning of money from europe to pay for the luxury products of the east, a process exacerbated by the fact that europe had few trade goods that were desirable in e markets; eventually the bulk of the world’s silver supply made its way to china
Silver Drain
Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subjected peoples.
Trading Post Empires
was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
Protestant Reformation
Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.
Sikhism
was a millenarian indigenous movement of political, religious and cultural dimensions which arose in the Peruvian Andes during the 16th century (c. 1564 - c. 1572) in opposition to the recent Spanish invasion.
Taki Onquy
was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.
Voltaire
