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AIS Unit 3

Age of Exploration

Question: What are the 3 G's that encouraged the Age of Exploration in Europe?
Answer: God, Gold and Glory

Question: True or False: when Europeans arrived to the Americas they found primitive, backwards civilizations like the Incas and the Aztecs.
Answer: False: Both the Mayas and the Aztecs were advanced civilizations with thriving city centers and systems of communication to keep their empires strong

Question: Why were conquistadores like Cortez and Pizarro able to conquer the Incas and the Aztecs?
Answer: Guns, germs and steel: Advanced weaponry, small pox, etc..

Question: What group of people in the eastern hemisphere were Europeans trying to bypass during this time period? They didn't want to pay them taxes/tolls to get trade goods.
Answer: The Muslims

Question: What was the Columbian Exchange?
Answer: The exchange of plants, technology, and disease between the eastern and western hemisphere as a result of Columbus' exploration.

MONGOLS

Question: Describe "steppe" geography
Answer: Dry, grasslands- little resources

Question: Who was the greatest leader of the Mongols? He united them into a powerful fighting force.
Answer: Genghis Khan

Question: What animal allowed the Mongols to be so powerful and build the largest empire in human history?
Answer: the horse

Question: What was the Pax Mongolica/Mongolia?
Answer: The Mongols' Golden Age- promoted order and stability throughout Eurasian continent, revived trade along the Silk Roads

Question: What impact did Mongol rule have on early Russia? How did it hurt the nation?
Answer: It isolated them from Europe- left them behind in terms of technology and Enlightenment ideas...BACKWARDS

The Middle Ages

Question: What led to the Middle Ages in Europe- what caused this new era to start?
Answer: The Fall of the Roman Empire

Question: What was the political system of the Middle Ages- results from the lack of a stong central government?
Answer: Feudalism

Question: what was the economic system of the Middle Ages- relied on "self sufficiency"
Answer: Manorialism or the Manor System

Question: What was the most powerful institution of the Middle Ages- it provided a sense of unity throughout Europe and grew very wealthy because of the tithe.
Answer: The Roman Catholic Church

Question: How did the Crusades and the Black Death weaken the feudal system and manor system?
Answer: Black death led to loss of 1/3 of population causing prices to go up and wages to increase- weakening manor system

Crusades increased trade and the spread of new ideas from the Muslim world, also took knights from estates

The Renaissance/Ref

Question: Who was Martin Luther and the 95 Theses?
Answer: Person who started the Reformation- 95 complaints against the Catholic Church

Question: What is Humanism?
Answer: The focus on human potential and worldly subjects- education, art, literature...the humanities (classical Greece & Rome)

Question: name 2 Renaissance artists and 1 achievement for each
Answer: da Vinci- Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man, Last Supper, notebooks with inventions/anatomy study
Michelangelo- the David, Sistine Chapel

Question: Who was Machiavelli? What did he write and why is it significant?
Answer: An author who wrote THE PRINCE- a how to guide for rulers---how to gain power and maintain it. Influenced infamous rulers of the 20th century like Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein

Question: What was the impact of Gutenberg's Printing Press on Europe- 2 examples
Answer:

Africa/VOCAB

Question: Where did earliest humans originate?
Answer: East Africa

Question: What are the Bantus known for?
Answer: Migrations that spread language and iron skill throughout AFrica

Question: What are the West AFrican Trade kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai known for?
Answer: GOLD & SALT- Muslim trade kingdoms- Mansa Musa...

Question: What is ethnocentricism?
Answer:

Question: Define Imperialism and give 1 example
Answer: