Exam 1 Robo's class

Aztec Empire

-Polytheistic

-Modern Day Mexico

-Excelled at Math & Astronomy

-pyramids, calendars, Campinas

tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, turquoise

Inca Empire

-Based in Andes Mounties of Peru

-Conquered by Francisco Pizarro

-Built lost city of Machu Picchu

-roads and bridges, llamas, terraces, potatoes

Mughal Empire

-Built Taj Mahal

-Spice trade with Europe along with gems

-religiously tolerant

-Silk Road

-cotton, gemstones, indigo, cinnamon, pepper

-opium for painkillers

Songhai Empire

-Controlled Gold-Salt Trade with Europe & Ottomans

-Islam

-education and learning University @ Timbuktu

-Gold, salt & slaves

The Ming Dynasty (China)

-Trade along silk road

-Build Great Wall for protection

-Develop 1st paper and paper money

-Foreign trade allowed only in enclaves

-Confucianism

-Self - reliant

-porcelain, tea, silk

-compass

The Ottoman Empire

-Capital is Istanbul

-Trade Coffee, sugar, pearls, silk carpets, ceramics,

-United by Islam religion

-lots of religions

-Silk Road

-gunpowder

Chinampas

Floating gardens made by weaving sticks together in sallow water then pilling laying of mud decaying leaves making an elevated platform

Feudalism

your born into it or you suck

Tokugawa shogun

The power was held by the Tokugawa shogun (millatry genaral)

1500's Europe (England, France, Russia)

England - Great naval power

France - Always warring with England

Russia- Large but poor and very little technology

-many kingdoms

-constant war

-little trade/innovation

-wool, fish

-Christianity

The Silk Roads

A large trade route connecting China, central Asia, India, and the Mediterranean used to exchange luxury goods along with culture, religion, and the black death.

The Maritime Routes

Maritime routes are the established sea lanes connecting global ports for trade

The Trans-Saharan Routes

a path across the Sahara Desert connecting West Africa with North Africa and the Mediterranean used mainly for gold and salt trade camels were used on these paths

What is a gunpowder empire?

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal A gunpowder empire was an empire that was able to control a vast area due to the powerful advantage of gun powder these empire often creating large gun powdered army with little training

*read gunpowder empire close reading for more info

Renaissance Art

Big artist of the times

-Leonardo de vinci

-Michelangelo

There were many things about Renaissance Art Linear Perspective, Humanism, Anatomy many of the pieces were about region

Secularism

In simple terms the separation of Church and state

City states of Italy

The only one we talked about was Florence and how it was the birth place of the renaissance it was wealthy

The Printing Press

made blibes fastes way to make books paved the way for mass book production

Gutenberg

gutenberg kinda sucked he died with nothing made his envation then lost it in a lawsuit bros actully a bum

Movable type

Used metal reusable numbers and letters this made it easy to add different fonts sizes and faster printing

Shakespeare

He wrote universal truths and dirty jokes (39 plays 154 sonnets)

The Scientific Revolution

A big change in the way people though one of the biggest being Heliocentric and using math and science to explain things

Erasmus

Paved the way for Luther translated the new testament in greek

Copernicus

Started the scientific revolution proved Heliocentrism with math

Galileo

Galileo used math to prove all objects follow the same basic prineables

Kepler

dude who discovered plants dont go in circals but Ellipses

Newton

Decroved the laws of montion

Martin Luther and Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther bought a bible and read found that the chruch sucked nailed 95 things he found worng with the chruch to the door the wittenberg chruch these being called the "95 Theses" A lot of them being about indulgences (paying off sins with money) Leading to the Lutheren chruch

King Henry VIII/Church of England

Henry the VIII was a hoe and wanna a divored to get a new wife (His wifes first lady) and the chruch was like no thats bad so he made his own chruch The Church of England

From where were most explorers?

Spain and Portugal but many were Italy

What is the importance of Christopher Columbus?

Was the first to claim "The new world" for england

Why were European nations interested in exploring other parts of the world?

The 3 G's

-God

-Gold

-Glory

Who founded the Mughal Empire?

Babur

Why was the camel important to trans-Saharan trade?

Its biological advantages made regular long-distance trade in the Sahara possible.

In addition to gold and salt, what two other types of goods were regularly exported from Africa?

textiles and enslaved people

What were some of the key exports from Songhai?

kola nuts, salt, and gold (Not sure with this one)

What was true of trade across the Islamic world?

Trade helped expand the reach of Islam.

What best describes scientific and technological study under the Ottomans

Ottoman scientists considered scientific study a form of religious devotion and conducted research in a variety of areas, especially medicine and astronomy.

What practice of the Catholic Church did Martin Luther protest?

the sale of indulgences

Why were animal-borne infectious diseases more deadly for Indigenous people in the Americas than for Europeans?

Indigenous peoples had never been exposed to the infectious diseases originating in European domesticated animals.

Which crop were most enslaved laborers in the Americas used to grow?

sugar