Unit 4 - Global Interactions Flashcards
The exchange of ideas, goods, food, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean is typically called what
the Columbian Exchange
What does the Renaissance mean?
the rebirth
The Renaissance was mostly centered in this country, which became a thriving center of the arts. Painters and sculptors attempted to re-create the forms of Classical Greek art, which depicted human subjects with a lot of detail and nobility.
Italy
Renaissance thinkers did develop a new way of looking at the world called
humanism
This famously started when the German monk Martin Luther nailed a list of complaints about the Church to the doors of a church in 1517. His 95 Theses became popular reading material, since they were reproduced on the new technology of the printing press.
The Protestant Reformation
He received credit for bringing the printing press to Europe. Previously, movable type had only been used in China and Central Asia.
Johannes Gutenberg
What is syncretism?
The process in which several religions grow together over a time
What was the state ideology of the Qing dynasty?
neo-confucianism
Vodun was a polytheistic religion from where?
Ghana
Renaissance thinkers did develop a new way of looking at the world called
humanism
this Russian tsar from 1682 to 1725, was obsessed with all things Western. He styled his government, life, and even his clothes and his beard by European standards. He built St. Petersburg in his own honor with the intention of making it a great European city. While Ivan created Russia in the last era, he made Russia a European state.
Peter the Great
This chinese dynasty ruled from 1368 until 1644
Ming
Who established the Qing Dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1912? (an ethnic group to the northeast who were related to the Mongols)
The Manchus
They established a dual system of government, where the civil service examination appointees were joined by non-merit-based appointments of their noblemen. (in China)
the Manchus
This empire became the dominant force in the Middle East, especially after conquering Constantinople in 1453
The Ottoman Empire
This Indian Empire was Muslim, while most of India was Hindu
Mughal
He was big on religious tolerance and even tried to start his own religion that blended Hindu and Islam and ruled from 1556 to 1605
Akbar the Great
South of Mali and Songhay was this kingdom, a Vodun kingdom with a strongly centralized government and army. They were militarily superior to their neighbors due to spending hundreds of years purchasing horses, steel weapons, and guns from Mali and, later, the Europeans. They compelled all of their male citizens, and many of their female citizens, to serve in the military. Their army was always at war with someone, and they made a tidy profit selling their prisoners of war to European traders. Over time, the slave trade turned from a side benefit of war to the primary purpose of war.
The Dahomey Kingdom
the two most valuable commodities that were traded, at least from the Americas, were
sugar and silver
This chinese dynasty ruled from 1368 until 1644
Ming
Who established the Qing Dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1912? (an ethnic group to the northeast who were related to the Mongols)
The Manchus
They established a dual system of government, where the civil service examination appointees were joined by non-merit-based appointments of their noblemen. (in China)
the Manchus
This empire became the dominant force in the Middle East, especially after conquering Constantinople in 1453
The Ottoman Empire
This Indian Empire was Muslim, while most of India was Hindu
Mughal
