Row 3-4 Flashcards
Columbian exchange
dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, and ideas between the western and eastern hemispheres
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer and navigator who discovered America in 1492
Conquistadors
Spanish soldiers/ explorers, sailed beyond Europe conquering territory and opening trade routes
Nicholas Copernicus
Renaissance astronomer and the first to discover that the earth is not the center of the universe
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conqueror who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
Cossacks
Group of Slavic peoples of southern Russia known for their horsemanship
Creoles
Person from the southern U.S. Or Caribbean who is descended from the French settlers
Vasco DaGama
Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the age of discovery, commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India
DaHomey
Was a powerful west African state, now the Rebublic of Benin
Deism
Belief in the existence of a supreme being
Devshirme
Practice by which the Ottoman Empire forcibly took boys from Christian families who were selected by scouts to be trained in an institution
Daimyos
Great and most powerful Japanese feudal lords
Barthomew Dias
Nobleman of the Portuguese Royal household, explorer, first European to sail around the south tip of Africa
Divine right
Kings right to rule (granted by god)
“Divine Faith”
To believe truths revealed by god and to believe the on the authority of God revealing them
Edict of Nantes
Issued by Henry IV of France, granted to Calvinists Protestants rights, aimed to promote civil unity
Empirical evidence
Information that is acquired by means of observation or experimentation
