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20 Cards in this Set
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Why did India, China, and the Islamic empires have no incentive to explore the Atlantic Ocean |
Rich markets in the Indian Ocean |
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List five reasons Europe had an advantage over other regions in exploration |
Located closest to the Americas, iron, guns, horses, improved mapmaking, and better seafaring technology |
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Europeans hoped to convert other groups of people to what religion |
Christianity |
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The Great Dying was the demographic collapse of what group of people |
Native Americans |
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List for items that went from the New World to the Old World as part of the Columbian Exchange |
Maize, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, silver, tobacco, and chocolate |
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List for items that went from the Old World to the New World as part of the Columbian Exchange |
Wheat, sugar, bananas, coffee, cotton, horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens |
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In the 1500s China decided to only accept what in return for its trade items |
Silver |
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What country set up hundreds of silver mines in Mexico and Peru on its way to creating an empire in the 1500s |
Spain |
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Explain mercantilism |
Theory that governments should encourage more exports than imports and accumulate as much silver and gold as possible |
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Explain the difference between peninsulares and mestizos |
Peninsulares are the Spanish and mestizos are the mixed races |
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What type of plantations did Portugal and Spain set up in Brazil and the Caribbean |
Sugar plantations |
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Why was it easier to set up colonies in North America than it was elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere |
No large, centralized empires to defeat |
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To be "Russified" meant that people became what two things |
Became Russian and Orthodox Christian |
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Which Russian leader established absolute rule through the use of a secret police force |
Ivan the Terrible |
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List three accomplishments of Peter the Great |
Formed a navy, built the city of St Petersburg, "westernized" Russia |
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List three reasons why Russia became so wealthy in the 1700s |
Agriculture, furs, and minerals |
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How were Asian empires different from European empires from 1450 to 1750 |
Regional, not global. They did not fundamentally change people's lives |
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What remained a dividing issue in India during the Mughal Empire |
Religion |
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Who was given "honorable" status during the rule of the Qing Dynasty |
Farmers |
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What did the Muslim leader Akbar create in India |
"Divine faith" that combined elements of Islam and Hinduism to create religious unity |
