Making Of The Modern World Final

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Council of Trent

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It's purpose was to find a compromise between the Catholics and Protestants. Unfortunately, they practically declared war on Protestants

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Louis XIV

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Set tariffs on imported goods, promoted merchant fleet. VERSAILLES.

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Tokugawa Leyasu

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Shogun of Japan. Set laws to limit the Daimyos power. Was completely against missionary activity. Completely banned Christianity in 1614. Forced Daimyos to acknowledge a supreme ruler. He unified Japan.

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Cossacks

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The Cossacks were responsible for the second wave of Russian invasions. They put their liberty/ freedom above everything else.

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Oprickniks

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Ivan IV's political police. They enforced Ivans laws. The people were terrified of them because they were able to do anything they wanted to do to the people.

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Ivan IV

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Established a universal law code which was applicable to any person. Suppressed the feudal landlords with the help of Oprickniks. He established a strong and centralized state.

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Shogun

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Hereditary leaders of Japan. The shogunate was revived in 1603 when Tokugawa Leyasu was granted the title Shogun by the emperor. Highest position in Japanese society

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Peter The Great

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Enhanced the power of the Russian state. Built the first Russian Navy. The elite were not born into their positions but got there on their merits. Westernized Russia.

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Daimyo

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Feudal lords. They controlled households which warred against other households. They were hostile and militaristic. The daimyo were essentially the all powerful rulers of their area.

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Nzinga Mvemba

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King Afonso I the first African king to convert to Christianity. The conversion helped the Europeans convert others in Congo to Christianity.

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Ottomans

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Turkic speaking people. Muslims. Conquered large areas in Eurasia and converted the people to Islam. Too many taxes. Empire was too large to maintain. Civil wars occurred every time a Sultan died.

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Janissaries

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Boys from conquered areas. Given extensive schooling and converted to Islam. Controlled the artillery and firearms in the Ottoman empire. Became the most powerful component in the Ottoman empire military machine.

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King Lalibela

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Emperor of Ethiopia. Had the large church carved out of the rock underfoot. Called Lalibela.

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Bantu

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Most African people were Bantus. Followed polytheistic animalistic religion. Evil was from witchcraft.

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Mansa Musa

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One of the greatest Kings of Mali. Muslim who encouraged the conversion of his subjects to Islam.

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Berbers

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Muslim reformist movement who came to Africa to purify, spread, and protect the faith.

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Mitimaes

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Groups of Incan families that moved from their homes to the newly conquered areas to keep the conquered people from rebelling against the new rule.

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Almoravids

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Muslim berber reformist movement that launched Jihad. Wanted to eliminate the disparity between inequality before God and inequality within the world.

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Zhu Yuanzhang

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Believed strongly in nationalism. Made every effort to eradicate all traces of Mongols from China. Mongol dress was discarded, Mongol names were removed from buildings. Mongols fled.

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Matteo Ricci

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Jesuit scholar who lived in China in the 1580's. Efforts to convert Chinese to Christianity failed. HE REPRESENTS THE IDEA THAT CHRISTIANITY CONVERSION IN CHINA FAILED.

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King of Whydah

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King not only permitted but participated in the slave trade. He controlled the slave trade by establishing prices. They organized auctions for the slave trade.

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Nobunaga

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One of the Japanese Daimyos. He was ambitious. He bought and made use of the European firearms with silver. Unified much of central Honshu.

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Triangular Trade

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Slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas - sugar,tobacco, and other goods were carried from America to Europe - European goods were carried to Africa.

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Lancados

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Portuguese trading posts in Africa. Demonstrates that the main purpose of Europeans in Africa was to trade.

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Zheng He

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Not Chinese. Muslim in the Chinese service. He was a Eunuch (castrated) for service at the royal court. Improved compass, made maps, began Chinese expansion but was the only one who wanted to continue expanding.

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Chinampas

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Irrigated agriculture. They were floating gardens that the Aztecs cultivated their food on.

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Lake Texcoco

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Tenochtitlan was built in the middle of Texcoco. Made the capital hard to conquer because enemies would have to cross the lake to reach it.

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Reconquista

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Reconquer. It was the fight of Christians to liberate the Christians in the Ibian peninsula from Muslims. The rulers believed that the gov't had a mission to promote Christianity.

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Calpulli

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At first, Calpulli were "kinship groups" which were nomadic tribes with an autonomic organization. Later became residential groups, like neighborhoods, after the Aztecs settled.

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Tenochtitlan

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The capital of the Aztec empire.

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Henry the Navigator

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Portugal! Sponsored 1/3 of the Portuguese voyages of exploration. He had scientific and intellectual curiosity, a desire to spread the name of Christ.

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Flowery Death

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One of the ways for an Aztec man to get into the afterlife. Considered the highest honor.

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Pochteca

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The merchant class of the Aztec empire. The merchants could buy or sell slaves to be sacrificed. *High Position*

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Renaissance

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Started in the 14th and 15th centuries. Challenged medieval, intellectual values and styles, suggested political innovation, created a new western interest in explorations. Believed the way to grow in wisdom was to discover the world.

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Mercantilism

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Prosperity of a nation depends on its supply of Capital. Capital is held by the state and represented by gold, silver, and trade value. Theory that led new world conquests.

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Nation State

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Feudal monarchy decline in the 17th century, absolute monarchy in France. French Kings implemented many new institutions including: stopped calling medieval parliament and passed laws themselves as they saw fit, blew up castles of dissident nobles, professionalized the army.

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Hernan Cortes

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600 Spanish soldiers defeated, 25 million Aztec empire. He enlist the help of Indians and TXalacalans who hated the Aztecs. Captured Moctezuma, killed him. The conquest took down the most powerful empire in the world.

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Martin Luther

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Monk who saw problems with churches in Italy. Thought the church was going against the Bible. He nailed his 95 thesis on the doors of the Catholic Church, and defied Catholicism and the Pope. Bible was then translated from Latin to vernacular.

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Enomiendas

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Plots of land given to encomienderos (holders of the estates) who used natives as workers and slaves. Destructive to society. Treated Indians so badly they almost died out.

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Mita

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mandatory public service in the society of the inca Empire. Historians use the hispanicized term mitt to differentiate the system as it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government.

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Efulefu

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worthless men in the eyes of the community in 'Things Fall Apart'

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Little Bitch

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Jason Raff when he doesn't study