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AP World Unit 3
AP World Unit 3-Land Based Empires
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ottoman Empire | One of the Gunpowder Empires known for gaining territory /prestige through military conquest through gunpowder. It lasted from 1299-1922 and was partially responsible for WWI because it crumbled in its latter years. Known as the “sick man of Europe” |
| Vasco da Gama | a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (below the southern coast of Africa) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route |
| Compass and astrolabe | nautical innovations that allowed sailors to navigate the seas without relying on a clear, starry night. |
| Christopher Columbus | an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas circumnavigation. |
| Trading Post Empires | Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples. Europeans, the Portuguese in particular, would set up a trading post on the coast of Africa, etc and dominate trade in the area. |
| Columbian Exchange | refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. |
| Bartolomeu Dias | In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa. He died before completely rounding the southern tip (at the Cape of Good Hope) when his ships were all sunk in a horrible storm. |
| James Cook | a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | Dom Henrique of Portugal , better known as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. He funded many exploratory missions. |
| East India Company | an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 It became an incredible political entity to the point that, in India, the Indian people were forced into unfair trade agreements with the EIC. |
| Martin Luther | a German priest, theologian, author and hymnwriter. A former Augustinian friar, he is best known as the seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation and the 95 Theses. He is also the namesake of Lutheranism, a branch of the Protestant faith. |
| Henry VIII | King of England from April 1509 until 1547. Best known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage annulled. He split from the Catholic Church (for both an annulment as well as for church properties) and founded his own church. |
| Council of Trent | Held between 1545 and 1563 it prompted by the Protestant Reformation and has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. It was arranged with the intention of fixing the wrongs of the Catholic Church that caused the schism. |
| Thirty Years' War | a 17th-century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe. It remains one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history, with more than 8 million casualties. |
| Protestantism | A branch in the schism of Christianity that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. For more information, see Martin Luther above. |
| Glorious Revolution | also called “The Revolution of 1688” and “The Bloodless Revolution,” took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband, William of Orange. |
| Peter I | Considered on of the greatest leaders in Russia, his major achievements include the founding of St. Petersburg in 1703, the victory against Sweden at the Battle of Poltava in 1709, and the birth of the Russian navy, his lifelong passion. |
| St. Petersburg | The “window to the west” the city was founded by Peter the Great to rival western European cities. |
| 95 Thesis | a list of proposals written by Martin Luther and nailed to the door in Wittenberg, Germany asking for reform of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Society of Jesus | The official name of the order of Jesuits. |
| Treaty of Westphalia | he treaties recognized the full territorial sovereignty of the member states of the empire. They were empowered to contract treaties with one another and with foreign powers, provided that the emperor and the empire suffered no prejudice. |
| Charles V | was first among Catholic monarchs, responsible for spreading the faith to the Americas, fighting the Protestant Reformation, and stopping Ottoman incursions. His was a life of duty and war, but it paved the way for a whole new era in European history. |
| Spanish Inquisition | a judicial institution that lasted between 1478 and 1834. Its purpose was to combat heresy in Spain, but, in practice, it resulted in consolidating power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom. Its brutal methods led to widespread death. |
| Louis XIV | also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. |
| Catherine II (Catherine the Great) | Last reigning Empress of Russia and the country's longest-ruling female leader. Came to power following the overthrow of her husband Peter III. She was known for embracing the Enlightenment, but turned her back on it after the anarchy of the French Rev. |
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