| A | B |
|---|
| mercantilism | huge wealth in gold and silver |
| 1453 | fall of constantinople |
| occurred during the commericial revolution | new money systems, mercantilism, new banking systems |
| vasco de gama | reached india by going around the tip of africa |
| trading post in africa | along the coast |
| sugar and tobacco | goods from americas to europe |
| hernando cortez | conquered the aztecs |
| christopher columbus | explorer to reach the new world |
| triangular trade route | linked erope, africa, americas |
| tea and porcelain | chinese goods exported to europe |
| china and japan | limited trading rights of europeans |
| columbian exchange | used african slaves,slavery based on race, new foods introduced to europe and the americas |
| islam | mughals spread into india |
| ceramics and coffee | ottoman empire trade items |
| came to the new world after 1492 | smallpox, cattle, horses |
| religious reasons for exploration | escape religious persecution, spread christianity, gain religious freedom |
| mughal empire | taj mahal |
| magellan | explorer who died before finishing trip around the world |
| enlightenment | religious toleration, stimulated democratic revolutions, reasoning to human world |
| john locke | people hold power in government, monarchs not chosen by god, government purpose is to protect life, liberty and property |
| montesquieu | the spirit of laws |
| john locke | two treatises of government |
| jacques rousseau | the social contract |
| baron de montesquiew | government should have separate branches |
| thomas jefferson | wrote the declaration of independence |
| documents influenced by ideas of the enlightenment | constitution, declaration of independence, bill of rights |
| sir isaac newton | laws of gravity, laws of motion, developed calculus |
| absloute monarchy | unpopular government during the enlightenment |
| copernicus | earth and planets revolve around the sunny q |
| composers of the enlightenment | mozart, bach, beethoven |
| scientific revolution | period of the 18th century when scholars believed athe use of reason could solve all problems |
| thomas hobbes | believed the best government is absolute monarchy |
| william harvey | discovered circulation of blood, believed the heart acted as a pump |
| absolute monarchies | france, russia, prussia |
| peter the great | westernized russia |
| louis XIV | enlarged versailles and made it a symbol of royal power |
| english bill of rights | signed by william and mary |
| peterI, louis XIV, frederick II | power centered among themselves |
| english civil war | parliament or king holds power |
| the glorious revolution | ended with william and mary taking the throne and ending absolutism |
| whigs | supported parliament |
| restoration begins | when charles II takes the throne |
| charles I | beheaded at the end of the english civil war |
