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APWH UNIT 4 Mrs.Tong
APWH Unit 4 1450-1750
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| From the 13th century to the 15th century established sugar plantations in the Atlantic islands | The Portuguese searched for fresh resources |
| The knowledge and technology used by European mariners to travel offshore | Sailboat, magnetic compass, astrolabe, and knowledge of the wind and currents |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailed to the Bahamas in 1492 |
| Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese navigator) | Crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean |
| From 1728-1729 led 3 expeditions to the Pacific, the Arctic, and Australia | Captain James Cook (British explorer) |
| British won and gained India, Canada, and Florida | Seven Yearʻs War (1756-1763) |
| Columbian Exchange | Global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens after Columbus’s voyages |
| Origins of global trade | European merchants created concept of supply and demand linking the ports of the world |
| Martin Luther (1483-1546) | Attacked sales of indulgences (1517) |
| Religious Wars | Wars between the Protestant and Catholic throughout the 16th century, and the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) |
| Colonial Society in the Americas | Silver was the basis of Spanish New World wealth and circulated through out the trade network, Spanish missionaries introduce Catholicism to natives |
| Sunni Ali | Emperor of Songhai empire (Western Africa) from around (1464-1492) |
| The Atlantic slave trade | Volume of the Atlantic slave trade increased dramatically after 1600, Introduced firearms |
| African Diaspora | Developed Creole language, Slavery became increasingly costly and eventually led to the end of the slave trade |
| Ming government (1368-1644) | Drove the Mongols out of of China |
| Manchu Invaders with peasant support | Led to the final Ming collapse, 1644 |
| The unification of Japan | Tokugawa Ieyasu brought stability to Japan in 1600 and divided it into warring feudal states, Neo-Confucianism became the official ideology, Merchants became prominent and could be more wealthy than ruling elites |
| The Ottoman Empire | 1289-1923 Founded by Osman Bey |
| Captured Constantinople and made into Istanbul, the Ottoman capital. | Mehmed the Conqueror (reigned 1451-1481) |
| Suleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520-1566) | harshly expanded the empire to southwest Asia and central Europe |
| Triangular Slave Trade | All three legs of Voyage profitable: Trade of African slaves to Caribbean, sugar to industrialized North U.S. and England, manufactured goods to Africa |
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