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Abolitionism
- movement to end slavery
- unnecessary with new industrial technology
- slaves were freed, but wih a long way to go with racism
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Columbian Exchange
- exchange of animals, plants, culture, slaves, disease and ideas
- new world/old world, connected the 4 continents
- contributed to the scientific/industrial revolution
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Middle Passage
- millions of people from Africa shipped to New World
- part of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- horrible conditions, many died, linked Africa and Atlantic world trading wise
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Qing Dynasty
- conquered China
- 80 year military effort, expanded territory of China
- transformed Central Asia
- Elimated era of nomads
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Ottoman Empire
- most powerful empire, Islamic, Turkic people, cross cultural
- seized Constantinople
- swept over most of the Middle East, North Africa, South East Europe
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Mughal Empire
- India, Islamic/Hindu civilization
- unified control over Indian Peninsula
- layed foundation for Britist Colonial Rule
Akbar
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Aztec Empire
- semi-nomadic group from Northern Mexico that Migrated South
- human sacrifice huge
- Triple Alliance - a military conquest program
- brought most of mesoamerica under 1 political frame
- Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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Inca Empire
- Located along the Andes Mountains
- Largest empire
- Bureaucratic Empire
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Benin
- Kingdom in West Africa
- patronized artists
- famous for brass sculptures
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Iroquois Confederacy
- 5 Iroquois nations come together, agricultural village society
- Great Law of Peace, settle differences peacefully
- set example of limited government, social equality and personal freedom, concepts European colonists found attractive
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Huguenots
Protestant minority
- French society torn by massacre in Paris, Catholic Mobs killed 3,000 Huguenots
- 'Edict of Nantes' issued for toleration of religion for French Protestants
- conflict led to Thirty Years War which was a Catholic-Protestant struggle
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Tokugawa shogunate
name for a Japan Military Commander
- surpressed Christian practice, silver-generated profits, market based economy
- flourishing commercialized economy foundation for 19th century industrial revolution
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Feminism
Mass movement for equal rights for women
- most operated in peace, some violence occured
- 19th century feminism raised issues taht echoed more loudly in the century that followed
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Nationalism
- idea that humankind was divided into seperate nations
- powerful idea in the 19th century world
- created controversy because no clear answer of who belonged to the nation or who should speak for it
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Haitian Revolution
Revolution to free the Haitians from French rule, part of the French Revolution
- came with a cost: extreme poverty with loss of sugar and coffee production
- created fear in whites to not let that happen again
- most successful slave rebellion ever to have occured in the America's
- Defining moment for Africans
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Potosi
- major global source of silver
- exposure to mercury
- thousands of workers died
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Settler colonies
- Britist Settlers, NE, NY & Pennsylvania
- "Leftovers"
- wanted to escape old European society rather than re-create it
- disease & military power cleared out Native Americans
- became the US - politically stable, democratic, economically successful with international power
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European Renaissance
renewed cultural blossoming
- "returning to the sources"
- wholly new era
- art inspiration & literature
- Da Vinci, Michelangelo & Raphael
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