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Unit 4 (1450-1750) Flashcards

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Magnetic Compass

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Innovation that improved direction (China)

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Astrolabe

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Tool used to determine longitude and latitude using the astrology (Greek and Arab)

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Lateen Sail

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Large triangular sails that allow for wind from either side (Arab)

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Astrological Charts

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Allowed mapping via the stars and constellations

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Caravel

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Portuguese boat that had improved steering and therefore allowed Portuguese sailers to get closer to the coasts

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Carrack

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Large 3-4 mast ship used in exploration, first by the Portuguese

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Fluyt

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Large dutch ship used originally for carrying large amounts of cargo

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Split the Iberian Peninsula between Spain and Portugal (proving their power in maritime trade)

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What were Portugal’s motivations for exploration?

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Technology, Economics, Religion

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Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese Price who set up a navigating school with the goal of increasing Portuguese power and spreading Christianity

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Vasco De Gama

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Portuguese explorer who travelled around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut first

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What were Spain’s motivations for exploration?

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Political Rivalry, Envy, Desire for wealth, Need for alternative routes to Asia

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Christopher Colombus

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Discovered the Americas in an attempt to find another route to India, trip sponsored by Spanish King and Queen to spread Christianity

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Colombian Exchange

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Transfer of diseases, foods, plants, animals and ideas between the Old and New World

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What diseases were transferred over the Colombian Exchange?

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  • Malaria
  • Measles
  • Small Pox (slave ships)
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Cash Cropping

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Method of agriculture where food was grown to be exported

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Impact of food exchange?

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Diversified diets led to a healthier population which lead to population growth

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Impact of Erosion?

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Became a large agricultural issue and led to the introduction and increased use of sheep

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Imperialism

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Expanding a countries power through military power or diplomacy

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Motives for imperialism?

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Gold, God, Glory

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Portuguese Imperialism tactics?

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used guns and violence, they also made small trading posts in order to control commerce

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Spain Imperialism tactics?

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established full blown colonies

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Dutch Imperialism tactics?

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Similar to Portugal, used large ships and guns and violence

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Continuity in trade?

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  • Regions who had been using the trade networks before European arrival continued to use them
  • Mughal merchants continued to use Indian Ocean trade despite European goals to dominate, this increased the merchants power and wealth
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Continuity in the slave trade?

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  • Slave trade between African nations and groups
  • Cultural assimilation
  • Domestic work (African female slaves became domestic servants)
  • Slaves held power and could hold military and political positions
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Change in the slave trade?

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  • Agricultural work (increased demand for male slaves)
  • Larger scale trade (Trans-Atlantic)
  • Racial Prejudice (slavery associated with race)
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Mercantilism

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State driven economic systems that sought to expand territory and maintain favorable trade balance (more exports and imports)

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Joint-stock Companies

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Business funded by the state via a group of investors

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Impact of Joint-Stock Companies?

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  • Incentivized supporting exploration
  • Allowed further expansion with new funds
  • more accumulation of bullion (gold, silver and other raw materials)
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Dutch East Indian Stock Company

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1602: funded by the Dutch State and investors
- Granted company monopoly on Indian Ocean Trade

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Impact of Dutch East Indian Stock Company?

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Dutch government expanded their power via the Indian Ocean

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Continuity in Trade Networks?

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  • Regional Afroeurasian markets flourished and increased reach
  • Asian land routes remained in control of Asian powers
  • Peasant and artisan labor
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Change in Trade Networks?

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  • Atlantic System increased the movement of goods
  • Demand for SUGAR
  • Demand for SILVER
  • Potosi and the Spanish coercive labor
  • Indigenous and enslaved Africans
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Potosi

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Richest Silver mining site in Bolivia, wealthy and populated in Spanish America

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Social Impacts of Slave Trade?

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  • Gender Imbalance
  • Changed family structure
  • Cultural Synthesis (Ex. Creole Languages)
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Fronde

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Social Resistance. Series of French Civil wars to limit the King’s power (failed)

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Queen Ana Nzinga

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Social Resistance. Restricted Portuguese taking over Kingdom of Kongo (success)

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Pueblo Revolt

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Social Resistance. Indigenous people uprose against Spanish colonizers (success)

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Maroon Societies

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Enslaved Resistance. Escaped slaves who set up communities and societies on the outskirts of slave societies

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Stono Rebellion

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Enslaved resistance. Example of many uprisings in the British colonies. Resulted in the execution of rebels from their British colonizers.

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Chattel Slavery

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Race based slavery that was used in America and in the New world by colonizers

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Indentured Servitude

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A way for poor Europeans to migrate the Americas in return for an agreed period of labor on a plantation

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Ecomienda System

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Serfdom in the Caribbean
- Ecomienda holders could tax workers

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Hacienda System

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Large land that people were indebted to (Spanish tactic)

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Mita System

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Subjects of the empire were required to serve labor on certain days

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Which systems were new labor systems?

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Chattel Slavery, Indentured Servitude, Hacienda, System, Ecomienda System

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Mughal Tolerance of Diversity?

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Very Tolerant.

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Jewish Tolerance in Ottoman Empire?

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Pretty Tolerant.

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Qing repression of Han?

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Less Tolerant.

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Jewish Tolerance in Spain and Portugal?

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No Tolerance. (Explosion)

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Impact of Jewish Expulsion in Spain and Portugal?

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Jews fled to the Ottoman Empire and Sephardic Judaism spread

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Casta Paintings

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Spanish paintings that depicted a white Spanish man with a woman and child of color

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Impact of Casta Paintings?

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Enforced Enlightenment Ideas about racial grouping people and white superiority

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Mestizos

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European + Native

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Mullatoes

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European + African

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Order of superiority in the Casta System? (Least to Greatest)

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African Slaves, Native Americans, Mullatoes, Mestizos, Creoles, Peninsulares)

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Russian Boyors

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Aristocratic land-owning class in Russia

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Ottoman Timars

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Land grant by the sultan in return for compensation in services

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