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Parr Winter Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| World's first civilization | In Asia and Africa |
| Social Classes in Ancient Society | Priests and nobles wealthy merchants artisians and skilled craft workers peseant farmers slaves |
| Mandate of Heaven | You have the right to rule given by God |
| Asoka | Indian ruler who turned his back on violent ways and became a buddhist |
| Patrisians in Rome | upper class |
| Acropolis in Greece | “high city” dedicated to gods and goddesses |
| Magna Carta | • Basis for English government Monarchs were within the law Nobles had certain rights |
| Manor System | lords gave land and protection to vassals in exchange for services and loyalty vassals’ lands had peasants to farm land |
| Conmstantinopal's advantages | surrounded by water and in the middle of trade |
| Pillars of Islam | Declaration of faith Fasting blessing pilgramige prayer |
| Mansa Musa and Timbuktu | Emperor of Mali who extended trade to Timbuktu |
| Role of Japanese emperor | in theory, head of society, in reality had no power |
| Renaissance | rebirth |
| The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa | painted by Leonardo DaVinci |
| Humanism | intellectual movement that created humanistic studies |
| Anton von Leeuwenhoek | invented a microscope |
| Formation of the Church of England | The Church of England was formed when King Henry the eighth requested an annulment from his current wife Jane Seymour and the pope refused. Henry then began the church of England with his friend Cranmer. |
| John Calvin | believed in predestination, created Calvinism |
| Line of Demarcation | Line set by the Pope that separated the non-European world into two sections |
| Boers | Dutch farmers who settled around cape town |
| Dutch traders in Asia | Formed the Dutch East Indian Company- very powerful |
| Moluccas | island chain off the coast of indonesia, source of spices |
| Bartholomeu Dias | rounded southern tip of Africa in 1488 |
| African slave Kingdom | slavery in Africa since ancient times. Flourished during triangle trade |
| conquest of Aztecs | conquered by Hernan Cortez |
| Aztec reaction to Spanish | believed he was a god |
| Capitalism | where individuals own a company, not the government |
| Creoles | American born descendants of the Spanish |
| Conquest of the Incas | conquered by Francisco Pizarro |
| "Putting out" system | system capitalists used to bypass guilds |
| threats to Charles V | Charles ruled two empires so he was in constant warfare |
| Peter the Great v. the Ottomans | peter fought the ottomans in order to gain a warm water port |
| Peace of Westphalia | Treaty in 1648 that aspired for European peace |
| Glorious Revolution | when Mary and William took over Englend with out blood shed |
| Edict on Nantes | granted huguenots religious toleration |
| Catherine the Great | German Princess who ruled Germany after Peter the Great |
| enlightenment Despot | rulers who supported the enlightenment |
| censorship of the enlightenmen |