WorksheetsCh. 5 Vocab Terms
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What are the characteristics of the Columbian Exchange?
The enormous network of transatlantic communication, migration, trade.
The transfer of diseases, plants, and animals that began in the period of European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
The near-record cold winters experienced in much of China, Europe, and North America in the mid-17th c.
Sparked by the Little Ice Age; extreme weather conditions led to famines, uprisings, and wars.
What are the characteristics of the General Crisis?
The enormous network of transatlantic communication, migration, trade.
The transfer of diseases, plants, and animals that began in the period of European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
The near-record cold winters experienced in much of China, Europe, and North America in the mid-17th c.
Sparked by the Little Ice Age; extreme weather conditions led to famines, uprisings, and wars.
What are the characteristics of the Great Dying?
The enormous network of transatlantic communication, migration, trade.
Term used to describe the devastation demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas; in many cases, up to 90% of the Pre-Columbian population died.
The near-record cold winters experienced in much of China, Europe, and North America in the mid-17th c.
Sparked by the Little Ice Age; extreme weather conditions led to famines, uprisings, and wars.
Identify the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1519-1521):
Hernán Cortés
mestizo
mulattoes
Akbar
Aurangzeb
Where did the Little Ice Age have its most significant impact?
A period of unusually cool temperatures from the 13th-19th c., most prominently in the Western Hemisphere.
A period of unusually cool temperatures from the 13th-19th c., most prominently in the Southern Hemisphere.
A period of unusually cool temperatures from the 13th-19th c., most prominently in the Northern Hemisphere.
A period of unusually cool temperatures from the 13th-19th c., most prominently in the Eastern Hemisphere.
What are factors of mercantilism?
Used in reference to the European empires in the Americas generally and particularly to the British colonies in North America.
A Christian state centered on Moscow that emerged from centuries of Mongol rule in 1480; by 1800, it had expanded in the northern Asia and westward into the Baltics and Eastern Europe.
The economic theory that governments served their countries' economic interests best by encouraging exports.
The economic theory that governments served their countries' economic interests best by accumulating bullion (precious metals such as silver and gold), helped fuel European colonialism.
Identify that describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas, most prominently the product of unions between Spanish men and Native American women:
Hernán Cortés
mestizo
mulattoes
Akbar
Aurangzeb
Identify that describe the mixed-race population for people of mixed African and European blood:
Hernán Cortés
mestizo
mulattoes
Akbar
Aurangzeb
How is the Russian Empire define?
Used in reference to the European empires in the Americas generally and particularly to the British colonies in North America.
A Christian state centered on Moscow that emerged from centuries of Mongol rule in 1480; by 1800, it had expanded in the northern Asia and westward into the Baltics and Eastern Europe.
A Muslim state centered on Moscow that emerged from centuries of Mongol rule in 1480; by 1800, it had expanded in the northern Asia and westward into the Baltics and Eastern Europe.
How are Settler Colonies define?
Used in reference to the European empires in the Americas generally and particularly to the British colonies in North America.
Imperial territories in which Europeans settled permanently in substantial numbers.
Used in reference to the Asian empires in the Americas generally and particularly to the Japanese colonies in South America.
Identify the emperor of India's Mughal Empire (r.1556-1605); his policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion between Hindus and Muslims:
Hernán Cortés
mestizo
mulattoes
Akbar
Aurangzeb
Identify the Mughal emperor (r. 1658-1707) who reversed his predecessors' policies of religious tolerance and attempted to impose Islamic supremacy, weakening his empire.
Hernán Cortés
mestizo
mulattoes
Akbar
Aurangzeb
What is Devhirme?
A term that means "collection or gathering"
Ottoman Empire's practice of removing young boys from their Christian subjects and training them for service in the civil administration or in the elite Janissary infantry corps.
Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia, most often in the form of furs.
What were the characteristics of the Mughal Empire?
A successful state founded by Muslim Turkic-speaking peoples who invaded India and provided a rare period of relative political unity (1526-1707)
Rule was noted for efforts to create partnerships between the majority Hindus and ruling-minority Muslims in the northern region of India.
Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia (Asia Minor)
Empire expanded to include the Balkans, parts of the Middle East, and much of Northern Africa; lasted in one form or another from the 14th to the early 20th c.
What were the characteristics of the Ottoman Empire?
A successful state founded by Muslim Turkic-speaking peoples who invaded India and provided a rare period of relative political unity (1526-1707)
Rule was noted for efforts to create partnerships between the majority Hindus and ruling-minority Muslims in the northern region of India.
Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia (Asia Minor)
Empire expanded to include the Balkans, parts of the Middle East, and much of Northern Africa; lasted in one form or another from the 14th to the early 20th c.
What were the characteristics of the Qing (Dynasty) Expansion?
A successful state founded by Muslim Turkic-speaking peoples who invaded India and provided a rare period of relative political unity (1526-1707)
During the 17th and 18th c. into a central Asian empire that added a small but important minority of non-Chinese people to the empire's population and essentially created the borders of contemporary China.
Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia (Asia Minor)
Empire expanded to include the Balkans, parts of the Middle East, and much of Northern Africa; lasted in one form or another from the 14th to the early 20th c.
What is Yasak?
A term that means "collection or gathering"
Ottoman Empire's practice of removing young boys from their Christian subjects and training them for service in the civil administration or in the elite Janissary infantry corps.
Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia, most often in the form of furs.
Tribute that Indian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Bangladesh, most often in the form of furs.
