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Astrolabe & compass
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the most important equipment on board the vessels;; [Chinese & Greek]
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Gold, God, Glory
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Desire for trade, convert/allies against Muslims, Desire for fame/ honor
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Prince Henry of Portugal
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Navigator, conqueror, Portuguese ruler who systematically promoted exploration down the coast of West Africa to reach Asia
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Vasco da Gama
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Sailed around Africa to get to India
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Ferdinand Magellan
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The 1st European explorer to circumnavigate the world and to establish the Spanish claim to the Philippines
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Scurvy
Definition
disease which caused rotting of the gums, loss of teeth abscesses, hemorrhaging, and death.
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James Cook
Definition
most important of the Pacific explorers; charted lands; died in a scuffle with people in Hawaii
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trading posts
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first was made by Portuguese mariners, goal was to control trade routes by forcing merchant vessels to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties there. for example the empire established by Portugal in Asia.
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Afonso d' Alboquerque
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Commander of Portuguese forces, tried to control Indian ocean trade by seizing strategic points.
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Joint stock companies
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English and Dutch merchants that conducted trade through an exceptionally efficient form of commercial organization with enabled investors to realize handsome profits while limiting risks.
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Manila Galleons
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ships that carried goods between the Philippines and Spain; largely revolved around trade and Christianity.
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siberia
Definition
aided Russian expansion overland. on a quest for fur.
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Columbian exchange
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The global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens that took place after voyages of exploration by Christopher Columbus and other European mariners.
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Maize & Manioc
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examples of American crops that took root in Africa, Asia and Europe. [by way of Columbian exchange]
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Martin Luther
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felt indulgences were signs of greed, hypocrisy, and moral rot in the Roman Catholic Church. Founded the protestant movement.
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95 theses
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denounced the sale of indulgences written by Martin Luther
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John Calvin
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converted to Protestant Christianity and organized a tight-knit Protestant community
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Predestination
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belief that humans could never earn salvation but also that God had already determined the "elect," which individuals would be saved from damnation before they were born. important to the Calvinist church.
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King Henry VIII
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Supports the Protestant movement. Conflict with the Pope because he wanted to divorce hes wife but the pope wouldn't allow him to do so. supported the Anglican Church.
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Anglican Church
Definition
the English church.
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The Council of Trent
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an assembly high church officials who met intermittently between 1545-1563 to address matters of doctrine and reform.
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The Society of Jesus
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sought to extend the boundaries of the reformed Roman Church, effective missionaries, often served as counselors to kings & other rulers. members known as Jesuits
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Loyola
Definition
founder of the society of Jesus, required members to complete rigorous & and advanced education
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the thirty years' war (1618-1648)
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cause of religious wars culminating in a great continental conflict. started after the Holy Roman Emperor tried to force his Bohemian subjects to return to the Roman Catholic Church. Damaged economies and societies throughout Europe & led to deaths about 1/3 of the German population
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Charles V (1519-1556)
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attempted to revive the holy roman empire; didnt extend his authority through Europe, devoted most of his attention and energy to the Lutheran movement & to watching closely for imperial princes.
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the English Civil War [1642-1649]
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started over political and religious disputes for constitutional government,ended when they arranged to have the king rule in cooperation with parliament. Sparked an alliance between the rulers and the merchants
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Absolutism
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monarchies that stood on a theoretical foundation known as the divine right of kings.
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King Louis XIV
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best epitomized royal absolutism, the "sun king", residence at Versailles.
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Peter the Great
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most important of the Romanvov Tsars, wanted to transform Russia, reformed the army. improved administrative efficiency
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Catherine the Great
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the most able of Peter's successors, worked to improve governmental efficiency and promoted economic development in Russia's towns
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Peace of Westphalia
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treaty which laid the foundation for a system of independent, competing states. regarded one, another as sovereign & equal, also mutually recognized their rights to reorganize their own domestic & religous affairs & agreed that political and diplomatic affairs were to be conducted by states acting in their own interests.
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Balance of Power
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early European diplomacy, when any particular state began to wax strong, others formed coalitions against it.
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capitalism
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an economic system in which private parties make their goods and services available on a free market & seek to take advantage of market conditions to profit from their activities.
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Putting out system
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was a method of manufacturing in which capitalists moved production into the countryside to avoid the restrictive practice of guilds
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Ptolemy
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Greek scholar, envisioned a motionless earth surrounded by a series of 9 hollow, concentric spheres that revolved around it. Each of the 1st 7 spheres had one of the observable heavenly bodies embedded in its shell.
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Copernicus
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broke the Ptolemaic theory, argued that the sun rather than earth stood at the center of the universe & that the planets including the earth, revolved around the sun.
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Galileo
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showed that the heavens were not perfect. observed spots on the sun and mountains on the moon & distant stars that werent visible to the naked eye.
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Newton
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depended on accurate observation and mathematical reasoning to construct a powerful synthesis of astronomy & mechanics
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the enlightenment
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quest to subject the human world purely rational analysis
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Philosophes
Definition
prominent intellectuals who advanced the cause of reason, addressed their works more to the educated public than to scholars. composed histories, novels, dramas, satires, & pamphlets on religious, moral, and political issues.
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Voltaire
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Philosophe who epitomized the spirit of the Enlightenment, championed individual freedom and attacked any institution sponsoring intolerant or oppressive policies.
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Deism
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denied the supernatural teachings of Christianity. although a powerful god had created the universe once created, the universe operated by itself according to rational and natural laws.
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Glorious Revolution
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triumph of constituted limited monarchy in England.
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Peace of Westphalia
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the agreement which ended the 30 yrs. war and laid the basis for an international system of competing sovereign states
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John Calvin
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the French lawayer and theologian who developed the most coherent and organized statement of protestant belief and emphasized "predestination"
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The Society of Jesus
Definition
was a catholic monastic organization which became the most dedicated defenders of the faith in Europe and effective missionaries in Asia and the Americas
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Charles V
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the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire who sought to eliminate Protestantism in the vast domains under his control.
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Louis XIV
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the French ruler who was known as the "sun king" because of the splendor of his court and his claim to absolute power by divine right
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Spanish Inquisition
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its original task was to ferret out those who secretly practiced judaism or Islam but Charles V also charged it with responsibility for detecting protestant heresy in Spain. Founded by Fernando and Isabel.
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Dona Marina
Definition
Played a pivotal role in the spanish conquest of mexico; helped cortes by being a translator and later having his kids.
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Tainos
Definition
the most prominent people in the region who cultivated manioc and other crops; lived in small villages. 1st people that the spanish encounter in the carribeans
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encomienda
Definition
gave spanish settlers the right to compel Tainos to work in their mines or fields; were supposed to look after their workers welfare & encourage their conversion to Christianity. Forced labor [like serfdom]
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Conquistadores
Definition
Spanish Conquerors
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Hernan Cortez
Definition
conqueror who brought down the aztec empire in Mexico; killed Motecuzma II
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Motecuzoma II
Definition
last Aztec Ruler, killed by Hernan Cortez.
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Francisco Pizzaro
Definition
led a spanish expedition from central America to Peru. took over the Incan capital at Cuzco.
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Atahualpa
Definition
last Incan ruler killed by Francisco Pizarro.
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Viceroy
Definition
administrators that were established in 2 main centers of authority in the Americas and were responsible to the king in spain; highest authority
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Audencias
Definition
Audit Viceroys, university educated lawyers who conducted reviews
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Treaty of Tordeillas
Definition
divided the world along an imaginary north-south line. Spain could claim any non christian lands to the west of the line and Portugal gained the same rights for any land to the east of that line. [how Portugal got Brazil]
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Jamestown
Definition
1st English colony in North America [more independent]
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Creoles
Definition
individuals born in the Americas of European and African parents; dominate economy, own haciendas and mines
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Mestizos
Definition
offspring of spanish and European or Indian ancestry
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Mulattos
Definition
offspring born of Portuguese and African Parents
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Potosi
Definition
[modern day peru] high concentrated area of silver production, full of rich mines.
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Mita
Definition
Spanish administrators relied on requisitioning draft labor, each village was required to send 1/7th of its male population to work for four months in the mines Potosi
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Hacienda
Definition
Large estate/ranch. produced goods for sale to local markets in nearby mining districts.
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Debt Peonage
Definition
a way to recruit workers for the Hacienda; landowners advanced loans to native peoples so that they could buy seeds, tools, and supplies, for their own farms, which had to be repaid by loans with labor but wages were so low that they were never able to pay off their debt [exploitation]
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Engeho
Definition
came to represent a complex land, labor, buildings, animals, capital and technical skills related to the production of sugar.
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Indentured servants
Definition
People who received free passage across the Atlantic in exchange for providing 4-7 years of labor.
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Virgin of Guadalupe
Definition
cult; religious figure. helped Christianity become especially popular
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Thomas Peters
Definition
leader of Sierra Leone and former slave
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Sierra Leone
Definition
a colony of former slaves in Nova Scotia
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Songhay empire
Definition
Biggest and most powerful empire in Western Africa
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Sunni Ali
Definition
Founder of the Songhay empire, creates a strong military and administration
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Timbuktu
Definition
most important commercial and cultural center in Songhay
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Swahili
Definition
East coast of Africa Largely Muslim. great deal of trade in the Indian Ocean
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Kongo
Definition
Kingdom in central Africa; kings converted to christianity to build a better relationship with the merchants.
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Afonso I
Definition
king of kongo; became a devout roman catholic and sought to convert all his subjects to Christianity.
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Angola
Definition
location where Portuguese explorers were developing a brisk slave trade
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Nzinga
Definition
led the resistance against Portuguese slave traders in Angola
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Great Zimbabwe
Definition
captial of the kingdom in south Africa..stone fortified city. dominated gold bearing plain
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cape town
Definition
1st european outpost in southern Africa founded by Dutch
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Faulani
Definition
Subsaharan africa, leads jihad to establish stricter form of Islam
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Dona Beatriz
Definition
combined Christianity with African Tradition
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Antonian movement
Definition
a particularly influential syncretic cult in Kongo
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Triangular trade
Definition
Europe. Africa. America. Trade pattern in the Atlantic
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The Middle Passage
Definition
slave trip from Africa to America
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Dahomey
Definition
took advantage of the slave trade in exchange for money and weapons
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African Diaspora
Definition
dispersal of African ppl and their descendants, left a permanent mark thru western hemisphere
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Maroons
Definition
escape/runaway slaves
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St. Dominique/ Haiti
Definition
the only successful slave revolt; take over and name Island Haiti
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Vodou & Santeria
Definition
Locations where syncretic religions usually did not create an institutional structure or establish hierarchy of priests and officials; became exceedingly popular.
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Olaudah Equiano
Definition
Abolitionist; wrote an autobiography that exposed the evils of slavery.
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