Global-Week 10 Flashcards

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Louis XIV

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Ruler of France, known as the Sun King, controlled the nobles, built the Palace of Versailles, and bankrupt his country

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Hernan Cortes

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Spanish conquistador who landed in Mexico and destroyed the Aztec people

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Located in Southern Mexico & Central America
Slash and burn techniques
Polytheistic
Built temples
Played a scared ball game
Good at engineering, math, and agriculture, Developed accurate calendars

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Maya

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4
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Divine Right

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belief that the king is a representative of gods power here on earth

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Catherine the Great

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Modernized and westernized Russia, obtained a warm water port and granted limited reforms for her people

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Oliver Cromwell

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Leader of Parliament during the English Civil War, who took over as dictator after they won

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Encomienda system

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Economic system in which the Spanish forced the natives to work on plantations in a slave like atmosphere

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Qing Dynasty

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Chinese Dynasty that was controlled by the Manchu’s, continued Chinese isolation and held on to traditional Chinese beliefs.

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Closed Country Policy/Isolationism

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Japanese policy of isolationism under the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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10
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Located in South America
Used forced labor (slavery) for farming
Used steppe farming methods

Polytheistic
Human sacrifice
Built long roads thousands of miles long
Strong government

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Inca

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Limited Monarchy/Constitutional Monarchy

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Type of government where subjects enjoyed basic rights and power was shared between the monarch and Parliament

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Glorious Revolution

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Bloodless revolution in which King James II was replaced with William and Mary in return they had to agree to share power with Parliament creating a Constitutional Monarchy

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Conquistador

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Spanish conquerors

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Charles I

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Attempted to establish an absolute monarchy and collect taxes without Parliament’s consent which led to a Civil War in which he lost his head

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15
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Atlantic Slave Trade

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The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

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English Bill of Rights

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The Great Charter, in which nobles forced King John to sign guaranteeing rights which were later extended to all subjects

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Located in American Southwest & Mesoamerica

Floating garden called chinampas
Advanced agricultural practices helped support population
Polytheistic
Human sacrifice 
Large powerful empire
Great engineers
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Aztec

18
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Capitalism

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economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources, such as money, for profit

19
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Absolutism/Absolute Monarchy

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when a monarch has total control over his/her government and people

20
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Peter the Great

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Modernized and westernized Russia forced subjects to adopt western customs to include the beard tax

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Parliament

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English law-making body

22
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Triangular Trade

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The transportation of goods, slaves and raw materials between Europe, Africa and the new world.

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Columbian Exchange

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Global transfer of foods, plants and animals during the colonization of the Americas

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Ming Dynasty

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Chinese Dynasty that kicked the Mongols out of China and re-established traditional Chinese and Confucian values and withdrew into isolation from the Europeans.

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Phillip II

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Ruler of Spain, was the “defender” of Catholicism and lost in a war with Protestant England

26
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Magna Carta

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Bill passed in Parliament in 1689 in which the monarchy could not collect new taxes or raise an army without Parliament’s consent