Early modern (1450-1750) Flashcards
(17 cards)
Vasco de Hama
Spread spices (Calicut port) in India
Transoceanic innovation
Cross stadf, helped with longitudinal coordination.
Volta do mar
Using monsoon winds to advantage
Trading ports
Portagese, Dutch and English profited. ( joint stock company, VOC, English east India co
7 years war
Commercial wars between posts
Columbian exchange
Disease, plants, tobacco , bananas, dairy, meat, potatoes,
Manila galleons
Ships that sprouted economy
Christendom split
Split of Protestants and Catholics. Witch hunts, religious war. Constitutional states
Conquest of americas
Dona marina helped Herman Cortes. Took over Aztecs.
Multi cultural societies
Mestizo: mixed society. Mulattoes: port. And Africa. Zambos: indigenous and African. Penmimsulares/ migrants if Iberian.
Mita system
Dangerous and difficult labor for low rates. Silver and sugar abundant.
South America religion
Catholic: virgin of Guadalupe.
Colonial exploitation of Africa
Human cargoes, Islam/ Fulani, Christianity. Distorted sex ratio l.
Slave resistance
Revolts, maroons and more expensive
Ming and Qing
Confucianism, civil service exams, scholar buerocrat, footbinding, filial piety,l
Tokugawa shogunate
Regional states turned into unification Replaced emperor, used daimyos. Edo uut
Ottoman Empire
Suelyman the great was a big leader. Unified military and army. Leaders could not control its land mass