History Review Exam 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 books | the most profitable item traded from North Africa to Timbuktu, a center for learning |
| growth of slavery | the prosperity of the Asian and African kingdoms from 1200 to 1500 was accompanied by this |
| Dutch | most of the commercial shipping in the world was conducted by the |
| Catholicism or Lutheranism | In 1555, by the Peace of Augsburg, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V allowed German princes to choose these two forms of Christianity |
| Ibn Battuta | This well traveled Muslim scholar left a journal that has become a valuable historical source |
| the Indian Ocean | Columbus expected to reach this |
| Bahmani and Vijayanagar | When the Delhi Sultanate began to lose control of its realm, new kingdoms emerged in India called |
| Joan of Arc | Who led the French to victory in a decisive battle during the Hundred Years War |
| the West Indies | In addition to sailing up the Pacific coast, early Amerindians from South America also colonized this |
| the Stono Rebellion | The largest slave revolt took place in 1739 in South Carolina and was called this |
| creoles | American-born Spanish whites were called this |
| Iroquois | The American enemies of the French were the |
| Puritans | They were one of two groups of Protestant dissenters who colonized New England |
| Muslims | Islamic law prohibited the enslavement of |
| Portugal | By the end of the 16th century, this country occupied most of the Brazilian coast |
| Council of the Indies | This was created in Spain in 1524 to put royal power in place over the population |
| 7.5 million | How many slaves were transported during the "sugar boom" from 1650-1800? |
| Dutch | Who settled the Middle Atlantic region first? |
| Amsterdam Stock Exchange | This was the greatest stock market of the 17th and 18th centuries |
| slave labor | 17th century sugar plantations of Brazil depended on this |
| chartered companies | Private investors with trade monopolies in colonies; European governments used these in order to make tobacco trade profitable |
| Vikings | These were the greatest mariners of the Atlantic in the early Middle Ages |
| Mansa Musa | This man made a famous pilgrimage that served to demonstrate the enormous wealth of his country; it resulted in the construction of new mosques and Quranic schools in Mali |
| the Netherlands | They revolted against Spain in the 1560s and 1570s because of the imposition of the Spanish sales tax and Catholic orthodoxy |
| Spanish Empire | this was a territorial empire |
| the Portuguese Empire | this was a trading empire |
| Catholic Church | This religious church played no official role in the persecution of Jews, as they were officially the protector of Jews in Medieval Europe |
| windmills and watermills | these mills had long been common in the Islamic world |
| the Renaissance | the patronage of wealthy merchants and prelates fostered artistic growth during this time |
| Zheng He | The Ming court suspended this man's voyages because the government believed that little could be gained by exploring |
| very high | Death rates among Amerindian people during the epidemics of the early colonial period were |
| witch-hunt | The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft, especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
| Scientific Revolution | The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science |
| Encomienda | A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians. |
| Bornu | A powerful West African kingdom at the southern edge of the Sahara in the Central Sudan, which was important in trans-Saharan trade and in the spread of Islam. |
| reconquest of Iberia | Beginning in the eleventh century; military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms |
| mercantalism | European government policies of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland country. |
| Urdu | A Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language since the 1300s |
| Little Ice Age | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable |
| Moctezuma | Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés |
| plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century |
| new monarchies | Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits |
| Gothic cathedrals | Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows |
| Atlantic system | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin |
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