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Transatlantic World
5 Point Vocabulary
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History
10th Grade
03/22/2012

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Term
Early Modern Age
Definition
  • After late middle ages
  • the golden age of piracy
  • first phase of Industrial Revolution
  • The great divergence
  • The beginning of European colonialism 
Term
Age of Gunpowder Empires
Definition
- 1480 to 1500
-the three Gunpowder empires were thriving
-they were more advanced than any European country
-Safavid, Ottoman, and Mongol
-These empires had a lot of power
Term
The Great Convergence
Definition
-every region of the world became intricatley connected to every other region
-caused population growth
Term
The Great Dying
Definition
- early 1600's
-thousands of Native Americans died
-died from the European diseases
-fundamental to the English settlement
-"God wanted this to be their territory"
Term
Khanates
Definition
-area goverend by Khan
-when Ghengis Khan died he seperated his empire into four sectoins for his four sons
-Khanate of Kipchak (Golden Horde)
-Khanate of Chaghadai
-Khanate of Persia
-Khanate of the Great Khan
Term
Mongols
Definition
-central east-asian ethnic group
-live mainly in Mongol, Russia, and China
-speak Mongolic languages
-there are approx. 10 million Mongols
-Under rule of Ghengis Khan
Term
Maritime Technologies
Definition

- a major way of transportation

- having to do or pertaining to the sea

-mar is latin for sea

-major way of traed and colonizing

-way of control for ex: China controlled Indian Ocean and all it's trade

Term
Trading Companies
Definition
-firm that connects buyers and sellers
-in the same of different countries
-does not get involved in the owning or selling of merchandise
-company coompensated by the seller
-usually with a sales comission
Term
Core Nations
Definition
-dominent nations in the world
-Nations, usually European, that enjoyed profit from world economy
-Examples are England, Germany, France, Japan
-Advanced industrial societies of America
-relatively independent
Term
Mercantilism
Definition

-Merchants/ traders are free to trade and move

-The government restricts who you can and can't trade with

-government controlled capitalism

-It provides protection for trade and begining of capitalism

-Navigation Act

Term
Capitalism
Definition

-an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods

-distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition in a free market

-during the Industrial Revolution

-capitalism was formed to describe the then emerging colonies of the New World

-gradually spread throughout the western world in the 19th and 20th centuries

 

Term
Nation-State
Definition

-a political or geopolitical entity

-a ethnic and/or cultural entity

-a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit

-The term "nation state" implies that the two geographically coincide

-The key distinction from the other forms is the identification of a people with a polity

Term
Absolutism
Definition

-complete power in the government

-not relative, dependant, or changeable

-totalitarianism, tyranny, immoral

-France is an example of absolutism in the early modern era

-in European history monarchs practiced absolutism

Term
Centralization
Definition

-the concentration of administrative power in a central government, authority

-power centralized in a few individuals

-originally with refernce to Napoleonic France

-cluster around a center (v.)

-opposite decentralization

Term
Gunpowder Empires
Definition
-Ottoman
-Safavid
-Mughal
-14th and late 17th centuries
-had stong militaries with advanced weapons
Term
Westernization
Definition

-adopting or coming under the influence of Western culture

-related to the proccess of acculturation

-American culture, food expanding outside of America

-ex: McDonalds, Wal Mart, etc

-Also westernization is seen in architecture of buildings

 

 

Term
Commercial Revolution
Definition
-period of European economic expansion
-lasted from 16th century to early 18th century
-was succeeded by the Industrial Revolution
-growth of banking, insurance, and investing
-caused migration of people from Europe to the Americas
Term
Joint Stock Company
Definition
- a typr of corperation or partnership involving two or more individuals
-they own shares of stock within the company
-one shareholder can sell their share to the other
-each have a certificate of ownership
-the English were the first with joint-stock companies
Term
European Style family
Definition
-later marriages
-less children
-used contract to ensure children woud take care of them
-parents worried about their future
-all children were mostly guarenteed some sort of inheritance
Term
Scientific Revolution
Definition
-16th and 17th centuries
-brought knowledge in physics, astronomy, biology, medicine, and chemistry
-The Englightenment succeeded the Scientific Revolution
-from medieval to modern science
-Alexandre Koyre named this epoch The Scientific Revolution
Term
Parliaments
Definition

- "parliament" may simply refer to a democratic government's legislature

-derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak)

-a parlement is a discussion

-the term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place

-first occurred in 1236 in England

Term
Enlightenment
Definition

-a cultural movement in Europe who tried to reform society and advance knowledge

-It promoted science and intellectual interchange and opposed superstition, intolerance and abuses in church and state

-The printing press precipitated the Enlightenment

-center of the Enlightenment was France

-The Enlightenment was "Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance and error

Term
Reformation
Definition

-the act or process of reforming an institution or practice

-the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church

-led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.

-improvement, alteration for the better

-Martin Luther was a leader in the Reformation

Term
Vodun
Definition
-an indigenous organized religion of coastal West Africa from Nigeria to Ghana
-otherwise known as Voodoo (Haitian Creole)
-practised by the Ewe, Kabye, Mina and Fon peoples of southeastern Ghana
- practiced by southern and central Togo, southern and central Benin and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria
-Religion was found in the New World after the African Disaspora
Term
sikhs
Definition
-follower of Sikhism
-originated in the 15th century
-originated in south asia
-monotheistic religion
-means "student" or "instruction"
Term
Protestants
Definition
-a major grouping of Christianity
-established by Martin Luther
-formed after the Reformation in Europe from Catholicism
-derived from Latin protestari
-means to publically declare/ protest
Term
Secularization
Definition
-transformation of a society from close identification with religious values
-A society ttransformed to non-religious values and secular institutes
-lifting of the monastic restrictions from a member of the clergy
-seperation of church and state
-Considerations of both tolerance and autonomy are relevant to any secular state
Term
Age of Reconnaisance
Definition
-period in which Europe discovered the rest of the world
-from mid 15 centures to 250 years later
-Began with Henry the navigator
-Also began with Portugese voyages
-J.H. Perry wrote a book about this period which he named the Reconnaisance
Term
Mughals
Definition
-descendants of central asian turco-mongol armies
-immigrants from Iran and Qizilbash
-during the 17th century
-two clans within this group
-Chughtai and Barlas
Term
tartars
Definition
-turkic speaking people
-numbering around 7million
-live in Russia, Poland, central Asia
-they adopted Islam
-originated in Latin or French
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