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semester exam pt 2 Flashcards

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Genghis Khan (Temujin)

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“Ruler of all”
Bad reputation
Anyone who resisted him was brutally killed
His Khanate(kingdom) reached from North China Sea to eastern Persia

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Yuan Dynasty

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Add huge closer to Chinese tradition rather than Mongolian practices
Kublai Khan

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Bubonic Plague

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The Mongol conquest, the Black death

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Zheng He

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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

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Mansa Musa

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Pilgrimage to Mecca
caravan to Arabia
Strengthen Islam in west Africa

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Ibn Battuta

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Muslim, who is devoted to his faith,
his journey was to learn as much as he could about Islam and its people and accomplishments

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Marco Polo

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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

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Gutenberg printing press

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Led to an increase in literacy

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Ming Dynasty

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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

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Mehmed II

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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

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Suleiman

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Cause great fear in Vienna
ottoman empire reached its peak under him
his armies overran Hungary

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Devshirme (Ottomans)

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Balkan Christians

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Janissaries

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Elite forces in the Ottoman army
slaves of the state

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Who collects taxes in Ottoman Empire

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Private citizens
Wealthy families

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Anglican Church

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Church of England
Free of control by the pope in Rome
Henry VIII

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Martin Luther

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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

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Counter Reformation

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Fight against Protestant attacks
Successful, many Europeans became Catholic

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Inquisition

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Punish nonbelievers
Allowed torture

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Thirty Years War

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The result of religious conflict with the holy Roman empire
War resulted in widespread famine, starvation, disease

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Cartography

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Map making

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Primogeniture Laws

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Gave all of each estate to the eldest son

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Christopher Columbus

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His journeys helped increase the interest in discovery

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Mercantilism

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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

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Columbian exchange

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Eastern and western hemispheres became linked in a new way sharing disease, foods, and animals
contributed to changing a global economy

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What did conquistadores bring to the Americas?

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Smallpox spread through the respiratory system

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transatlantic slave trade

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Africans were captured and sold
sugar cultivation in Brazil
More Africans than Europeans went to the Americas

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Chattel slavery

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A system in which individuals were considered as property to be by insured

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Growth of Asante empire

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Resulted in the expansion of maritime trading networks

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Hacienda system

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Landowners developed agriculture on their lands
they used coerced labor to work the fields

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Middle passage

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Journey across the Atlantic
provided little food, water and movement

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East India company

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Joint stock companies
(owned by investors who bought stock or shares in them)

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Triangular trade

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Atlantic trading system
voyages often had three segments

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Dahomey

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African society that conducted slave raids
became richer by selling their captives to Europeans

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Syncretism

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The combining of different religious beliefs and practices

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Enlightenment

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Challenged rules of monarchs and churches
Age of “isms”

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Maroon Wars

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Enslaved ppl in the Caribbean
Former Spanish territories
Fought to gain freedom

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Akbar

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Mughal Empire
Ended jizya
Funds to build Catholic Church

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Peninsulares

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Ppl in Spanish colonies born in spain

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Nzinga

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Fought against Portuguese & their slave trade in central Africa

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