Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
AP Chapter 9 Upshur
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| learned to read and write Portuguese., sent his son, Dom Henrique, to Portugal for education and religious training., considered himself an equal to European monarchs. | King Afonso I |
| established Fort Sao Jorge at Elmina on the west African coast. | The Portuguese |
| In 1652, Africa's first European settlement was founded by the | Dutch at Table Bay in South Africa. |
| Despite Qur'anic injunctions against it, Islamic societies had engaged in slavery., Slavery in Africa and the Islamic world was not based on race or religion. | slavery in Africa |
| African leaders ooperated with European slave traders became rich from slave trade., The Songhai leaders nw Africa sold slaves for horses and guns., The Obas in Benin banned the export of males from their territories until 17th century. | African slave trade |
| In 1529 the Ottoman Empire left behind sacks of ________ after retreating from Vienna. | coffee |
| In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman and Safavid states were | both sectarian and political rivals. |
| Papal calls for crusades against the Ottomans were ignored because | Europeans were more interested in economic gains. |
| routed the Mamluks in Egypt and gained control of Palestine and Syria., moved the Caliphate to Istanbul., viewed themselves as the guardians of Islam and the military might of their empire as the Sword of Islam. | early Ottoman rulers |
| led his armies against rulers in c Europe 1521 seized the Serbian capital of Belgrade., conquered most Hungary by exploiting the rivalry between the Austrian Habsburg emperors and the French Valois kings., failed to leave a worthy successor to his throne. | Suleiman the Magnificent |
| the navies of the Habsburgs and the Italian city-states crushed the Ottoman fleet. | At the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, |
| was highly centralized., Grand Vizier & divan were resp. for political & economic administration., Bureaucratic offices were responsible for matters as diverse as the translation of documents to the supervision of the vast royal palace complex of Topkapi. | Ottoman governmental administration |
| centralized autocracy, bureaucrats elite based on land & wealth., was financed through new wealth acquired expansion empire and from taxes., Collection of taxes Ottoman Empire assigned "tax farmers", dependent upon army, government rigidly structured | Ottoman Empire |
| In Ottoman society, "People of the Book" included | Jews and Orthodox Christians. |
| the commodities that the Ottoman Empire engaged in the trade of was | slaves., gold., ivory.,coffee. |
| Sultans trainedcraft and some achieved considerable artistic & literary skill., Suleiman and other Ottoman sultans patrons of the arts., Literary skills admired., Turkish historians chronicled the development of the empire and exploits of the military. | Ottoman cultural developments |
| Ottoman culture, like Roman culture, has been criticized for its | lack of originality. |
| being based upon Shi'i Islam rather than on Orthodox Sunni Islam., maintaining and reinforcing the separate identity of Persian society and language. | The Safavid realm differed from that of the Ottomans in |
| ruled from 1587 to 1629., killed or blinded three of his five sons., curbed the influence of the local chieftains. | Shah Abbas |
| Shah Abbas established a new Safavid capital in | Isfahan. |
| lived lavishly and wore ornate silk- and gold-brocaded attire., Every seven years the used clothes from the royal court were burned and the gold and silver threads collected for use in new garments., enjoyed games such as chess and polo. | life styles of the Safavid elite classes |
| rivals control territories Tigris-Euphrates Valley.Sunni, Ottomans clashed w Shi'i Safavids over domination of Islamic territories & interpretations basic Islamic doct. 1514, Ottoman forces def Safavids Iran, power Habsburgs, Ottoman enemy in e Europe. | The Ottomans and Safavids |
| Trade birth to early modern capitalism & furnished resources for cultural devel., urban centers wake of crusades., commercial cities like Genoa, Venice, and Milan in cultural affairs., The Roman heritage & continued Latin kept memories of classical. | the Renaissance developed first in Italy |
| most justifiably be called "the father of humanism" | Francesco Petrarca |
| The painter of The Creation in the Sistene Chapel was | Michelangelo. |
| The Byzantine diplomat Manuel Chrysoloras is best known for his | grammar textbook. |
| Philosophically inclined humanists differed from the scholastics of the late Middle Ages in preferring | Plato to Aristotle. |
| was a humanist and theological writer who wrote poetry in Latin. | Isotta Nogarola |
| was the first woman known to have made her living as a professional writer.,wrote an autobiography entitled Christine's Vision., wrote a poem celebrating Joan of Arc's victory at the siege of Orléans. | Christine de Pizan |
| favorite subjects in the painting of Artemisia Gentileschi is | Judith beheading Holofernes. |
| A late medieval painter who overcame the problem of simulating movement and depth on a flat surface was | Giotto. |
| created a symbolic and allegorical portrayal of the classical philosophers Plato and Aristotle with their students in his School of Athens | Raphael |
| Latin and Greek "doth train the soul in virtue" and wrote a book contrasting the evil conditions of contemporary life with an idealized, peaceful, and prosperous society living communally in accord with reason and Christian values. | Thomas More |
| The foremost northern humanist was | Desiderius Erasmus. |
| the satiric targets of François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel was | scholasticism., bigotry., church practices. |
| This book, sometimes regarded as the greatest novel ever written, ridicules the pretensions of nobles as champions of honor. | Don Quixote |
| Shakespeare's heroes are often responsible for their own dilemmas and suffer by their own sins and mistakes; this is a type of irony familiar from | Greek tragedy. |
| The technique that Albrecht Dürer is best known for is | woodcut. |
| In regard to women's lives, Protestant reformers | stressed the value and sanctity of marriage. |
| Monarchs nominal authority but possessed little real power., Great nobles were monarchs in miniature, often having the power of life and death over the people in their territories., Kings granted towns privileges and rights in return for money payments. | political power and structure |
| Louis XI of France was given the following nickname because of the qualities of his political traps and plots: | the spider |
| The siege of Orléans failed because of the military success of | Joan of Arc. |
| the use of officials from the ranks of the lesser gentry and townsmen., the supplementing of traditional English law with Roman law ., the seizure of the lands and revenues of "overmighty subjects." | steps taken by Henry VII to centralize royal authority and control in England |
| forged alliances with the towns to counter the power of feudal levies., established the Holy Inquisition., conquered Granada. | Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain |
| national states sufficiently centralized finance exploration & expansion., tech advances pioneered better navigational systems. visions of wealth., European govt & merchants wanted alter ocean routes in order to avoid high import taxes imposed Ottoman | European overseas expansion |
| first European nation to engage in overseas expansion | Portugal. |
| The Roman Catholic Church reached the height of its power under Pope | Innocent III. |
| The War of the Roses | ended with a victory by Henry Tudor. |
| The Babylonian Captivity was initiated by the actions of | France. |
| "Simony" refers to | the sale of church offices. |
| All Saints' Eve, 1517, is famous for | Martin Luther's demand for church reform. |
| The focus of Luther's early demands for reform was | the system of "indulgences." |
| reformers who had weakened church already., Great Schism series of worldly popes had lowered public support papacy., writings Erasmus & others critical spirit challenged accepted beliefs., movable-type printing the mass prod books spread of new ideas. | Luther and others after him were able to divide the Christian church |
| new monarchs of w Europe to limit church authority., the funneling to Italy of a large part of funds the church raised irritated , unscrupulous rulers conveniently embraced Protestantism in order to seize the church's property in their realms. | Luther and others after him were able to divide the Christian church |
| Ulrich Zwingli incorporated many of Luther's teachings, but disagreed with him over | the meaning of the communion service. |
| A doctrine formulated particularly by John Calvin was that of | predestination. |
| John Calvin's ideas found support in | Switzerland., France., Scotland., the Netherlands. |
| was the half-sister of "Bloody Mary.", restored the Anglican church and declared herself its governor when she came to the throne., successfully steered a middle course between Roman Catholicism and Calvinism. | Queen Elizabeth |
| effected reform legislation that ended the worst abuses in church discipline., banned the sale of indulgences., decreed that all bishops establish seminaries to train priests. | Council of Trent |
| was founded by Ignatius Loyola., worked directly under the pope to combat heresy., carried out missionary work in Asia and the Americas. | The Jesuit order |
| major powers received pol gains., recognized the independence of Protestant Switzerland & the Netherlands., Calvinist rulers the same right to determine the religion practiced in their territories that Catholic and Lutheran princes had enjoyed since 1555. | Treaty of Westphalia |
| The first Europeans to make a lasting impact on the Western Hemisphere | Spanish and Portuguese. |
| was an Italian financed by Queen Isabella of Castille., computed that Japan was about 2,400 miles from the Canary Islands., landed in the Bahamas in 1492. | Christopher Columbus |
| last Muslim enclave on the Iberian Peninsula fell in 1492., took seven centuries to complete., left a large number of men who were looking for both profitable adventures and new areas for Christianity to conquer. | the Reconquista |
| the pope drew a north-south line dividing the claims of Spain and Portugal. | Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, |
| crossed the Panamanian isthmus and saw the "South Sea." | In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
| country gained the most from the Treaty of Tordesillas | Spain |
| country claimed the lower portion of the Mississippi River in 1685. | France |
| Aztec culture surpassed Castillian culture in | pure mathematics and urban architecture. |
| Inka rule centered in the mountains of present-day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and northern Chile., Inka rule was a rigid state socialism in which all power focused in the person of the ruler. | the Inkas |
| Roman Catholic mixed indigenous Amerindian and African religious practices., Some religious leaders went to great lengths to destroy all remnants of the Amerindian heritage., Some priests led the fight for more humane treatment for the Amerindians. | Spanish religious policy in Latin America |
| England, France, and the Netherlands were not part of the first wave of European invaders of lands in the Western Hemisphere | preoccupation with religious wars. |
| When north European nations turned their attention to the Western Hemisphere | engaged in piracy and marauding. |
| motives of the English in founding colonies in North America was | trade with the Amerindians for skins and furs., the acquisition of gold and silver., conversion of Amerindians to Christianity. |
| creating, enlarging, and protecting growing colonial empires., increas efficient in mercantile & banking affairs, profits obtained colonies & avoiding dissipation wealth European wars., Company investors profits colonial manufacturing & trading in Europe. | North Sea nations by the mid-seventeenth century |
Created by:
jchavez
Popular World History sets