Unit 3 Vocab

Question 0

Zheng He

Answer 0

Voyager, launched seven expeditions for the Ming Dynasty, collecting tribute for permission to trade with China.

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

Began in Italy, a rebirth of classical knowledge ideas of art and literature.

Question 2

Colombian exchange

Answer 2

Movement of people, plants, animals diseases and ideas between the America and Europe

Question 3

Reformation

Answer 3

Movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the Pope’s authority (Protestantism)

Question 4

Atlantic slave trade

Answer 4

Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific condition then sold, and forced to work in the Americas in mines and plantations

Question 5

English civil war

Answer 5

A conflict between the English parliament and Charles I, which established the supremacy of parliament over the monarchy

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Sikhism

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A non-violent monotheistic religion development in India, whose beliefs blend elements of Hinduism and Islam

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Limited monarchy

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A system of government that emerged in England in which the monarch is made to share power with an elected parliament and constitution limit the power of the monarch

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Mercantilism

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An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more good that they bought

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Absolute monarchy

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A king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society. This monarch claims to rule by divine right and do so without any checks and balances

Question 10

Glorious revolution

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1688 a bloodless revolt that overthrew the king of England and signed into law the English bill of rights, granting their subjects certain rights

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Capitalism

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Economic system that includes private ownership and investment in businesses for profit. Also known as free market or free enterprise

Question 12

Ottoman Empire

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Gained control of existing land and sea trade routes between India and Asia, changed Constantinople to present day Istanbul

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Secular

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Concerned with worldly (non religious) rather than spiritual matters

Question 14

Printing press

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Johannes Gutenberg invented a machine with movable type in 1450 in Germany which helped spread the ideas of the Reformation