Study Guide - Test #2
Eastern Civilizations & Discovery
AWC II / Frye / Fall 2015 / 40-50 multiple matching objective questions
Eastern Civilizations
Islam
MAIN IDEAS? worldview questions
Mohammed
Mecca
Allah
ummah
tawhid
Quran
Hadith
5 pillars of Islam
mosque
caliph
ulema
Shari’ah
jihad
dhimmis
jizya [tax]
Sunni
Shi’a
Sufis
conquests
Abbasid Caliphs
Seljuq Turks
India
Aryans / Deccans
Hinduism
the Vedas
Brahman / gods / avatars
reincarnation
dharma
karma
atman
castes
outcastes
Buddhism
Siddartha Gautma
anatman
nirvana
MAIN IDEAS? worldview questions
MAIN IDEAS? worldview questions
China
dynasties
Confucius The Analects
Mandate of heaven
MAIN IDEAS?
Eastern “gunpowder” empires
Ottoman Turks
Mehmet II
Janissaries
Conquest of Constantinople 1453
Defeat of the Mamelukes [1512-1520, Selim the Grim]
Suleiman the Magnificent
India: Moghuls [c.1501-1800s]
Akbar the Great
Aurangzeb….persecution and revolts
Arrival of Europeans…arrival of British in 1700s
Ming China and the arrival of Europeans
Japan
Shintoism / kami
Daimyo
Samurai
shogun
Ieyasu Tokugawa
The Age of Discovery
Why did the Europeans set out on voyages of discovery?
Indian Ocean rout / Silk Road &"spices"
Portugal’s maritime empire … 1500s
Prince Henry
caravel
Pedro Cabral – Brazil map
Vasco daGama
Admiral Albuquerque’s fleet
Spain’s Siglo de Oro [1500s]
Ferdinand Magellan
Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
The Spanish New World Empire map
conquistador
Aztecs map / Montezuma II
Cortes – why he won?
Malinche’
Pizarro & the Inca map
role of disease
encomienda
role of Catholic church in New world
BARTOLEMEO DE LAS CASAS
Status in the colonial Spanish empire: Peninsulares, creoles, mestizos,
blacks/Indians
Columbian exchange (what was it, effects, globalization)
Mercantilism (what was it, globalization)
Commercial revolution (what was it, effects)
MERCANTILISM
stock (joint stock company, stock exchange)
importance of sugar in colonial economy
plantation systen
Potosi, silver and resulting global inflation
Africa and the slave trade
slave factories
nature of slavery before and after American discoveries/plantation
Map stuff…
Arab [Abbasid] Empire [Caliphate]
Ottoman Empire
India [Moghuls]
Africa
Arabia
Mecca
China
Aztecs
Mongol Empire
Inca
Spanish Empire in the New World?
The East Indies
The Caribbean and “West” Indies
Brazil