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| This is what Spain's holdings in America were calledL: | New Spain |
| Spain made immense wealth in the New World with this: | Silver mining |
| Silver made this country the most powerful in the world: | Spain |
| Spain became richer than Portugal because: | They had the western side of the Treaty of Tordesillas line, where there was much silver. |
| Main differences between how the English and Spanish treated American natives? | The English kept their distance from the "savages" while the Spanish tried to convert them and didn't frown on intermarrying. |
| These people were at the top of the social pyramid in New Spain: | Spanish people born in Spain. |
| This dynasty tried to close itself off from European influences, but had products that were very popular there: | The Ming Dynasty |
| Some of the popular Chinese goods that Europeans wanted: | Silk, porcelain, tea |
| Mistake that the Ming made that sealed their doom: | Requiring that all taxes be paid in silver. |
| Why Chinese peasants rose up and took down the Ming Dynasty? | Bad harvests, lack of food AND silver. And the leaders are living in the Forbidden City palaces? I don't think so. |
| During the late Middle Ages, Japan was: | Very divided, many kingdoms fighting each other, like the feudal system. |
| This led to big changes in feudal Japan: | Firearms brought in and sold by the Portuguese. |
| Portuguese firearms brought into Japan led to: | the country being united under one shogun (military leader). |
| This Japanese shogun adopted Confucianism, improved education, and isolated the country from Europe. | Tokugawa |
| This country expelled Christian missionaries, burned western books and only traded with the Chinese and Dutch eventually. | Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. |
| These people were from northeast of the Great Wall in China, and took over after the Ming Dynasty fell. | Manchu |
| The Manchu nomads established this dynasty in China: | Qing |
| How you pronounce "Qing" | Ching |
| He was Russia's first Czar: | Ivan III (Ivan the Great) |
| This is Russian for "Caesar" | Czar |
| He tripled the size of Russia: | Ivan III (Ivan the Great) |
| He rebuilt the Kremlin, moscow's fortress: | Ivan III (Ivan the Great) |
| For many years, Russia was small and weak due to being dominated by these people: | The Mongols |
| This helped Russian settlers spread over the rest of Asia pushing out the Mongols: | Firearms from Europe. |
| He was almost 7 feet tall: | Peter I (Peter the Great) |
| He travelled as a commoner throughout Europe to learn more about the West. | Peter I (Peter the Great) |
| He worked to madernize Russia with ideas and innovations brought back from Europe: | Peter I (Peter the Great) |
| Russia wanted land bordering this body of water so it could have an ocean outlet to the west. | The Baltic Sea |
| Russia went to war against this country to take over land on the Baltic Sea: | Sweden |
| Once he acquired land on the Baltic Sea, Peter I (Peter the Great) built this capital city: | St. Petersburg |
| How did Peter the Great die? | A bladder infection (he really didn't drown heroically while saving sailors) |
| This new Catholic order set off the Counter-Reformation: | The Jesuits |
| This was a period when the Catholic Church made major reforms, but also went after people they thought were enemies of the Church. | The Counter-Reformation |
| During the Counter Reformation, these changes were made by the Church: | Education was promoted, women schooled, indulgences stopped. |
| This was a system of church courts that place heretics and sinners on trial: | The Inquisition |
| These were used to get confessions from suspected heretics during the Inquisition: | Torture and imprisonment |
| The Inquisition was especially strong in this country: | Spain |
| During the Inquisition, Spain had recently pushed this group out of Spain and back to Northern Africa: | The Moors, who were Muslim |
| When Christians retook Spain in 1492, they pushed out these people: | Jews and Muslims |
| What was the difference in how firearms affected Japan and Russia? | They helped Japan UNITE, and helped Russia EXPAND. |
