AP World Map test Units 3 and 4

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic Slave Trade

Aztec Empire

British Empire

Dutch

Fur Trade

Inca Empire

Portugese

Safavid Map

Songhay

Spanish empire

bight of benin

Cape Horn

Cape of Good Hope

Cuba

English Channel

Mozambique Channel

Philippine Islands

Strait of Hormuz

North America

Central America

Caribbean

South America

The Americas

Western Europe

Mediterranean

Eastern Europe

Central Asia

Middle East

South Asia

East Asia

Southeast Asia

Oceania

North Africa

West Africa

Central Africa

South Africa

East Africa

Africa

Pacific Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Acapulco

Amsterdam

Beijing

Calicut

Canton

Delhi

Goa

Isfahan

Istanbul

Kyoto

Lima

London

Macao

Malacca

Manila

Mexico City

Mombasa

Moscow

Paris

St. Petersburg

Venice

Vienna

Songhai Empire

Kongo

Ottoman Empire

Mughal Empire

Russia

Dahomey

West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.

Ming dynasty

Qing dynasty

Tokugawa shogunate

African Diaspora

Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.

Akbar

The most famous emperor of India's Mughal Empire (r. 1556-1605); his policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion.

Aurangzeb

Mughal emperor (r. 1658-1707) who reversed his predecessors' policies of religious tolerance and attempted to impose Islamic supremacy.

Benin

West African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.

Bhakti

Hindu devotional movement that flourished in the early modern era, emphasizing music, dance, poetry, and rituals as means by which to achieve direct union with the divine.

cartaz

A pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean.

Catholic Counter-Reformation

An internal reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century; thanks especially to the work of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic leaders clarified doctrine, corrected abuses and corruption, and put a new emphasis on education and accountability.

Columbian exchange

The massive transatlantic interaction and exchange between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia that began in the period of European exploration and colonization.

conquistadores

Spanish conquerors of the Native American lands, most notably the Aztec and Inca empires.

Council of Trent

The main instrument of the Catholic Counter- Reformation (1545-1563), at which the Catholic Church clarified doctrine and corrected abuses

creoles

Spaniards born in the Americas.

Dahomey

West African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.

Daimyo

Feudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors.

Darwin, Charles

Highly influential English biologist (1809-1882) whose theory of natural selection continues to be seen by many as a threat to revealed religious truth.

deism

Belief in a divine being who created the cosmos but who does not intervene directly in human affairs.

devshirme

The tribute of boy children that the Ottoman Turks levied from their Christian subjects in the Balkans; the Ottomans raised the boys for service in the civil administration or in the elite Janissary infantry corps.

Edict of Nantes

Issued by French king Henry IV that granted considerable religious toleration to French Protestants and ended the French Wars of Religion.

European Enlightenment

European intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applied the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open-mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society.

Freud, Sigmund

Austrian doctor and the father of modern psychoanalysis (1856-1939); his theories about the operation of the human mind and emotions remain influential today

Galilei, Galileo

Italian astronomer (1564-1642) who further developed the ideas of Copernicus and whose work was eventually suppressed by the Catholic Church.

Huguenots

The Protestant minority in France.

Jesuits in China

Series of missionaries in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, inspired by the work of Matteo Ricci, made extraordinary efforts to understand and become a part of Chinese culture in their efforts to convert the Chinese elite, although with limited success.

Little Ice Age

A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era.

Luther, Martin

German priest and theologian (1483-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation movement in Europe

Manila

Capital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600.

Marx, Karl

German philosopher (1818-1883) whose view of human history as a class struggle formed the basis of socialism.

mestizo

Literally, "mixed"; a term used to describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas.