Unit 1 Test

History 112 with Aksamit at Kansas State University

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Vasco de Gama

traveed from Portugal to the Indian Ocean with the intention of tradeing gold, wool clothing, and other items with the people of the area in exchange for spices and jewlery

Martin Luther

Inspired Roman Catholics to convert to Protestantism because he believed people were judged by faith and following the bible and not by god works and prayers

East India Company

an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies; founded, outfitted, supplied, and run by private companies; focused on profitable trade

absolutism

Political philosophy that stressed the diviner right theory of kingship

(ex. Louis XIV of France)

Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

very effective missionaries; often served as councelors to kings; most prominent of early Christian missionaries outside Europe, made Christianity a genuinely global religion; worked to expand geographical boundaries of Catholicism

The Spanish Inquisition

The Pope gave Fernando and Isabel of Spain the ability to use state power to stamp out Judaism and Islam; used to silence those who treatened their power (hung, burned, tortured, inprisoned)

Mestizos/Metis

children born to pearents in which one parent is spanish and the other is native; the first mestizo was born to Dona Marina and Hernando Cortes

Peninsulares

latin american officals from Spain or Portugal

encomienda

gave spanish settlers the right to compel natives to work in their mines adn fields and in return the Spanish would look after their workers and encourage their conversion to Christianity

The Middle Passage

a trans-Atlantic journey aboard filthy and crowded slave ships

Olaudah Equiano

freed slave; contributed to the abolitionist by writing books that exposed the brutality of slavery; traveled through Brithis Isles denouncing slavery--his efforts strengthened the antislavery movement in England

Triangular Trade

horses and manufactured goods from Europe are sent to Africa in exchange for slaves, the slves are then taken to Caribbean and American destinations where they are exchanged for American products that are brought back to Europe

Matteo Ricci

an Italian Jesuit whos goal it was to convert China to Christianity

foot binding

mainly practived by the Chinese upper class--prevented feet from growing naturally so that they were unable to support a woman's weight; demonstrated that men had the ability to support a woman who could not preform physical labor

ghazi

Islamic religious wars

devshirme

Ottoman requirement that Christians in the Balkans provide young boys to be slaves to the sultan; unlike American slaves these boys had the ability to rise in society

floating worlds

center of Japanese urban culture--teahouses, theaters, brothels, public baths

What was the Columbian Exchange?

the exchange of goods (plants, crops, animals, and disease) betweent he new and old war

How did the Columbian Exchange imapct civilizations throughtout the world?

1) spread disease - natives didn't have a tollerance to the diseases brought over by people of the old world

2) new world crops led to an increase in population in the old world

3) animals brought from the old world helped to advance the new world - horses could now be used for farming

What tradition did the Islamic empires follow for political succesion?

steppe

How did the steppe tradition for political succesions in Islamic empires impacts the policies of sulers?

Mehmed the Conqueror made it legal for leaders to kill of family members after taking the throne in order to secure their position; locked up people in cells whom the believed would chalenge them for the throne

Did the steppe tradition for political succesions in Islamic empires produce a peaceful of chaotic transition?

it produced a peaceful transition because there was no one to challenge the succesors throne.

What were the Europeans' motives for overseas expansion?

1) setting up trading posts

2) finding a northern passage

2) to flee the current governing system of their ome countries (Puratins)

Haiga Sophia

the Ottamin Empire transformed the church into an Islamic temple; artichature used to show power and persuade others to embrase the islamic empire

Mandarins

chinese upper class scholared buracrats; top of social ladder

call-and-response

one person sings a lina and the group respons with the same line (the notebook); African slave tradition; incoperated into American jazz and blues

Is history unchanging?

No. History is continously changing.

In what ways have people viewed World History differently?

Marquis de Condorcet--believed history revealed human progress from myth and error to reason and truth

Thucydides--believed that human nature could be derived by studying Greek societies and saw history as a continous cycle.

In what ways did the treatment of indigenous people (natives) differ in the colonies of Spain, Portugal, England, and France?

Spain--encomendia - slave labor for natives in mines

Portugal--tried to enlist local Brazilian populations as labors, native were reluctant and retreated inland

England--Puratins who came to the new world for religous freedom ignored the natives; had little interest in them

France--attempted to convert natives to christianity

In what ways did the Enlightment change the perception of the natural world?

accurate observation and mechanical reasoning dominated both mechanics and astronomy; brought about the scientific revolution

In what ways did the Enlightment change the perception of religion?

enlightment thinkers abandoned the roman catholic religion and encouraged other to replace christian values with new scholar values based on reason

Which blended religions did African slaves form in the new world? How were the similar and different to the religions practiced in Africa?

Isalm--kept many African customs and beliefs but allowed mena nd women to associate with eachother on more familiar terms than before

Christianity--more African beliefs (Jesus=black, Kongo=true holy land, Hevan=for Africans)

How was the social structure organized in the Confucian civilizations of Asia?

by the civil-service examinations, the higherlevel you pass the better your possition within the adminstration

How did the social structure organized in the Confucian civilizations of Asia impact the economic development of the country?

assured that confucianism was vigorously studied; governemnt controled all trade, keep outside influences out

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