World History Final Flashcards
Why exploration?
God, Gold, Glory. Also a trade route for Asia
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer. First to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by an ocean route
Henry the Navigatior
Portuguese prince that helped usher in the ace of discovery and Atlantic slave trade.
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian Navigatior, explorer, and financier who demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not the outskirts of Asia
Magellan
Portuguese explorer who organized the Castilian expedition, resulting in a he first circumnavigation of the earth
Circumnavigate
To sail all the way around the world
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic
Columbian Exchange
A period of cultural and biological exchanges between new and old
African trade
Portuguese’s African slave trade
Conquistadors
A conqueror, especially one of Spain/Maine
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Inca empire
Copernicus
Renaissance mathematician and astronomer that placed the sun at the center of the universe
Louis XIV
Known as Louis the Great of the Sun King, was king of France from 1643 until 1715
Palace of Versailles
King Louis XIV house, extremely big
Absolute monarchy
Only one leader
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician. Came up with the law of gravitation
Galileo
Famous Italian astronomer
Philosophes
Studied areas of learning. Intellectuals of the enlightenment
John Locke
Life, liberty, and property
Lassaiz Faire
“Hands off” the belief that the government intervention is bad.
Salon
Gathering of enlightenment individuals
Natural rights
John Locke (life liberty and property)
Natural laws
Laws that govern the natural world
Thomas Hobbes
Social contract- agree to behave a certain way (absolute Monarchy)
Montesquieu
The three branches of government
Declaration of the rights of man and citizen
Max Robesppiere. First document for France. Like the bill of rights. People don’t want an absolute monarchy.
Estates general
France’s pre- Revolutionary monarchy