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17 Cards in this Set
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4 Historical Questions |
What happened? Why did it happen? How do we know? Why should we care? |
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4 Categories of History |
Political Economic Social Cultural |
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Columbus' First Voyage to the New World |
Time: 1492
Place: Atlantic World
What happened: the first sustained contact between the eastern & western worlds
Why it happened: the quest to find resources worldwide along with advancements in technology
How we know: Columbus' voyage diary, the Mayflower Compact, Spanish Archives
Why we care: this was the first decline of indigenous people because of the spread of disease, the rise of world population, and the spread of European power |
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Zheng He's Expedition |
Time: 1421 |
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Capitalism & the Rise of European Empires |
Time: 17th-18th centuries Place: Atlantic World What happened: the 30 Years War (1618-1648) started as a religious war after the Lutheran Reformation & was fought mainly between Catholics & Protestants causing Europe to break into hundreds of different principalities Why it happened: the rise of capitalism through the fall of feudalism How we know: Gutenbergs Printing Press (1450) made mass production of printed products possible Why we care: this was the first significant decline of non-European powers. Japan closed its borders to European travelers (1640), the Ottoman Empire established it's first printing press (1784), & Eurocentricism spread around the world |
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Capitalism |
An economic system where private enterprise looks for advantage & profit |
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Feudalism |
A mafia-style system where taxation occurred in the form of harvest |
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade |
Time: ca. 16th-19th century (ended in 1867) Place: Atlantic World What happened: the largest coerced migration in world history where slaves were forced onto ships (called the middle passage) for 2 weeks to 3 months to be sold as laborers for sugar plantations Why it happened: capitalism, the need for rigorous sugar laborers, religious differences, and the triangular trade How we know: we have very detailed slave records from the ships they were on including personal information about everyone on board Why we care: demographic wellspring to the Americas that led to race and ethnicity being defined from the trade as African culture began to influence world culture |
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Triangular Trade |
Sugar, coffee, & tobacco were traded for textiles, brandy, & arms which were traded for slaves & so on |
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The Execution of Dona Beatriz |
Time: 1706 Place: West Africa What happened: Dona had a vision that God came to her & said heaven was reserves for black Africans and that slaves were being wrongfully captured since they were the children of God. She was burned at the stake when the Portuguese thought she would overthrow them. She became an idol and a symbol of hope for the community & this was one of the first notes incidents of slave rebellion. |
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Atlantic Revolutions, Rebellions, & Independent Movement |
Time: ca. 1775-1825
Place: North America, France, Hatai, Ireland, & Spain
What happened: a series of revolutions & rebellions that were fought to gain independence & equality
Why it happened: imperial conflict & enlightenment ideology. The Seven Years War (1754-1763) caused extreme debt in Europe.
Why we care: ordinary people in history had ideas that caused extraordinary measures to the way the world shifted in ideology. European power in the early 19th century was a growing nation (people with shared history & identity). The rise of nationalism - advocacy of political independence for a particular country - became a widespread identity of the New World. |
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American Revolution |
1775-1783 Declaration of Independence in 1776 |
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French Revolution |
1789-1799 Inspired by the American Revolution France was in debt after the Seven Years War & the peasants rose up to overthrow their absolute monarch, Louis XVII. The peasants took over & forced the upper classes to pay tithes for their land, stripped them of their noble titles, and forced marriage on them |
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Hattain Revolution |
1791-1804 This was a war fought over poverty & status |
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Irish Rebellion |
1789 Called a rebellion because it was unsuccessful Fought over religion. The 5% who were members of the Church of Ireland were the only people who had access to power |
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Spanish-American War for Independence |
1810-1825 Simone Bolivar led & won independence from European powers |
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Chronology |
Zheng He's Expedition - 1421)
Gutenbergs Printing Press - 1450
The Columbian Exchange: Columbus' First Voyage to the New World - 1492
Thirty Years War - 1618-1648
Japan closed its borders to European travelers - 1640
Execution of Dona Beatriz - 1706
Atlantic Revolutions, Rebellions, and Independent Movements - 1775-1825
Declaration of Independence - 1776
Ottoman Empire established it's first printing press - 1784 Irish Rebellion - 1798
Hattain Independence - 1804
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