semester exam pt 2 Flashcards
Genghis Khan (Temujin)
“Ruler of all”
Bad reputation
Anyone who resisted him was brutally killed
His Khanate(kingdom) reached from North China Sea to eastern Persia
Yuan Dynasty
Add huge closer to Chinese tradition rather than Mongolian practices
Kublai Khan
Bubonic Plague
The Mongol conquest, the Black death
Zheng He
Muslim admiral travel around the Indian Ocean
to display the might of the ming dynasty to the rest of the world & receive tribute from people he encountered
Mansa Musa
Pilgrimage to Mecca
caravan to Arabia
Strengthen Islam in west Africa
Ibn Battuta
Muslim, who is devoted to his faith,
his journey was to learn as much as he could about Islam and its people and accomplishments
Marco Polo
Travel to China
many Europeans refused to believe his descriptions of China’s size, wealth, and wonders
wrote about the high levels of urbanization
Talked about trade related matters as a pov of a merchant
Gutenberg printing press
Led to an increase in literacy
Ming Dynasty
Yuan was overthrown by Ming
Stabilized the east Asian region Portuguese and other Europeans arrived, aiming to encroach on the Asian trade Network network
Manchu established the Qing dynasty
Mehmed II
Constantinople, crumbled under ottoman cannons
city changed to Istanbul
strengthened the ottoman navy
attacked various areas of Italy
Forced Venice to pay him a yearly tax
Suleiman
Cause great fear in Vienna
ottoman empire reached its peak under him
his armies overran Hungary
Devshirme (Ottomans)
Balkan Christians
Janissaries
Elite forces in the Ottoman army
slaves of the state
Who collects taxes in Ottoman Empire
Private citizens
Wealthy families
Anglican Church
Church of England
Free of control by the pope in Rome
Henry VIII
Martin Luther
Concluded that church practices violated biblical teachings
Objected the sale of indulgences (free from sin)
95 Theses
Women can have as much access to God as men
Counter Reformation
Fight against Protestant attacks
Successful, many Europeans became Catholic
Inquisition
Punish nonbelievers
Allowed torture
Thirty Years War
The result of religious conflict with the holy Roman empire
War resulted in widespread famine, starvation, disease
Cartography
Map making
Primogeniture Laws
Gave all of each estate to the eldest son
Christopher Columbus
His journeys helped increase the interest in discovery
Mercantilism
Sell as many good as they could maximize the amount of gold and silver buy as few as possible from other countries
required heavy government involvement
Columbian exchange
Eastern and western hemispheres became linked in a new way sharing disease, foods, and animals
contributed to changing a global economy
What did conquistadores bring to the Americas?
Smallpox spread through the respiratory system
transatlantic slave trade
Africans were captured and sold
sugar cultivation in Brazil
More Africans than Europeans went to the Americas
Chattel slavery
A system in which individuals were considered as property to be by insured
Growth of Asante empire
Resulted in the expansion of maritime trading networks
Hacienda system
Landowners developed agriculture on their lands
they used coerced labor to work the fields
Middle passage
Journey across the Atlantic
provided little food, water and movement
East India company
Joint stock companies
(owned by investors who bought stock or shares in them)
Triangular trade
Atlantic trading system
voyages often had three segments
Dahomey
African society that conducted slave raids
became richer by selling their captives to Europeans
Syncretism
The combining of different religious beliefs and practices
Enlightenment
Challenged rules of monarchs and churches
Age of “isms”
Maroon Wars
Enslaved ppl in the Caribbean
Former Spanish territories
Fought to gain freedom
Akbar
Mughal Empire
Ended jizya
Funds to build Catholic Church
Peninsulares
Ppl in Spanish colonies born in spain
Nzinga
Fought against Portuguese & their slave trade in central Africa
