Unit 4 Test Flashcards
what was the Renaissance term used to praise mankind and all of its accomplishments?
humanism
what was the treaty of tordesillas?
split up South America with line of demarcation: Portugal got east side and Spain got west; made by the pope
commercially, what was the biggest change made in this time period than before?
incorporation of Americas into global trade
what was the introduction of new goods into the new world and new goods into the old world exchange called?
Colombian exchange
explain John locke’s ideal form of government
limited government with the people in charge
explain Thomas hobbe’s ideal form of government
absolute monarchy
what were Russian nobles called
boyars
what was the equivalent of a boyar in Japan?
daimyo
how or by what means did Portuguese insert themselves into the Indian Ocean exchange?
took over ports on the west and east coasts of Africa and charged taxes on all goods
what European area, in the 16th century, was the least unified politically?
Italy
what was the majority religion in the Mughal empire?
Hinduism
what was one of the biggest outcomes of the buoyan trade around the world?
inflation
most slaves were traded from which area of Africa and sent to which area of the new world?
west Africa to Latin America
what was the prevailing economic theory in Western Europe?
mercantilism
what were the navigation acts?
colonies can only trade with their mother country
what led to the growing need for slaves in the new world?
sugar plantations and the great dying of native Americans
what were the two biggest cash crops in the new world?
sugar and tobacco
what was the most obvious difference in the Safavid empire than the ottoman and Mughal empire?
Safavid were Shia Islam and ottoman were Sunni Islam
which region developed the most isolationist policies?
east Asia
what was the major theme of Adam smiths economic theories?
hands off government ( laisseasy-faire govt)
what are the natural laws?
laws that govern the universe (created at the beginning of time by God)
what were the purposes of colonies under mercantilism?
get natural resources to produce goods and to have market to sell them back; to spread religion
how were the empires of the British and the Dutch economically different in the Indian Ocean trade?
British colonized more areas; Dutch created a trading post empire and took over trade