units 3 + 4 | land-based empires and transoceanic interconnections (1450-1750)

Question 1

inca empire

Answer 1

• andes mountains
• built on previous cultures
• used mit’a system on indigenous peoples
• advanced
• spanish conquistadors arrived in 16th century

Question 2

land-based empires

Answer 2

• used gunpowder to expand by force
• qing (manchu) dynasty in central and east asia
• russia in eastern europe and asia
• mughal + ottoman empires
• safavids in middle east

Question 3

mexica (aztec) empire

Answer 3

• built on previous cultures
• fell after spanish arrival

Question 4

european explorations

Answer 4

• wanted trade increase from east and se asia
• european kings sent expeditions around africa into indian and atlantic ocean
• portugal, spain, france, britain, netherlands (dutch)

Question 5

columbian exchange

Answer 5

• triggered by columbus’s expeditions
• plants, animals, technology, disease

Question 6

atlantic world

Answer 6

• people, politics, religions, goods, ideas back and forth on the atlantic ocean
• after columbus connected europe with africa and the americas
• important from 1450-1900

Question 7

mercantilism

Answer 7

• economic nationalism
• due to columbian exchange
• west european nations created colonies in americas and asia for raw materials
• silver mining and trade were its foundation

Question 8

atlantic slave trade

Answer 8

• europeans needed workers on their caribbean sugar planations
• from west africa
• 16th-19th centuries
• middle passage
• demographic changes in africa and new world

Question 9

encomienda

Answer 9

• spanish land practive in american colonies and philippines
• land given to settlers to use natives as indentured servants

Question 10

mit’a system

Answer 10

• required by incan government
• adopted by spanish for gold mining
• used for public work

Question 11

mughal empire

Answer 11

• muslim territory in south asia (16th-19th)
• akbar
• religious tolerance
• taj mahal
• claimed to come from mongols

Question 12

printing press

Answer 12

• china 500 BCE
• arrived in germany in 15th century, then spread to europe
• helped spread reformation ideas

Question 13

ottoman empire

Answer 13

• sw asia into north africa and eastern europe
• muslim
• 13th-20th centuriesd

Question 14

diasporic and indigenous cultures

Answer 14

• diasporic = scattered
• refugees, missionaries, and mercants set up in far away places
• indigenous were peoples who were “there first”

Question 15

urbanization

Answer 15

• cities: importance, growth, decline
• centers of government, religion, trade, education, and art