History test 1

Toussaint L’Overture - formerly enslaves person freed pre revolution, becomes leader of slave uprisings, brings military discipline to effort, and works with French Republican forces to drive British and Spanish troops from the island

Little Ice Age - lower temps in the world from 1550 to 1750
Haitian Republic - Jean-Jacques Dessalines leads an army to victory over France in 1825

Hastings - Leader of the British East India Company who created a legal code, increased universal of laws, and increased the divide between the Muslim and the Hindu population.
British East India Company - power broker in India who slowly took over India in the 1750s

nawabs - regional governers who are appointed by the emperor
Third Estate Committee of Public Safety - Jacobins led by Robespierre who killed many people
Napoleon - rules as an absolute monarch and ensures the goals of the Revolution and protects regime

Casta - divides population based on ethnicity
Enlightenment - intellectual movement in 17th and 18th centuries Europe extends methods of natural sciences developed through scientific revolution to society

Congress of Vienna - European leaders pledge to collaborate to stop any European country from being aggressive towards others and stop ‘radical‘ republicans and others promoting Revolution from gaining power, as well as reestablishing borders after Napoleon’s defeat
Armchair patriotism - USA wants to vote in parliement but not to pay english taxes

Mfecane period - new states in southern Africa (many new kingdoms)
Virtue - essential to running a democracy

Limited Monarchy - king and parliement work together
Coverture - married women are stripped of independent legal personhood, she cannot vote, hold property, sit on juries, have legal right to the wages they earn, or hold office

Gradual Emancipation - slowly ending slavery by freeing those born into slavery after the Revolution once they became adults
Atlantic Slave Trade - slaves kidnapped from Africa were shipped during the Colombian exchange

Canton system - 1757 restricted all European trade to a single part of Canton in southern China
Social contract theory - John Locke. says all people are born as blank slates

Akbar the Great - leader of the Mughal empire who gets rid of religious taxes and starts property taxes and has religious tolerance
Mughal Empire - Ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for 200 years

Foot binding - becomes more widespread in China in 1600s
Silver taxes - Ming government adopts a fixed amount of silver per person as a taxation method in the 1570s in the wake of their connection to the Columbian exchange trade networks

Qing dynasty - Civil service exam and religious tolerance
Valley of Mexico - the central region of easy formable land in Mexico

Tribute states - states who pay taxes from war
Incan Road - road system of 2 thousand miles of road

Smallpox - killed about 75% of indigenous Americans from 1500 to 1700
Columbian Exchange - exchange of organisms (crops, plants, insects, and diseases) around the world

W. African depopulation - Africa can no longer support itself due to depopulation from the slave trade so they are dependent on trade
Xinjiang Province - in the west Africa, a key area of agricultural growth

Seven Years’ War - French vs British war happening in USA