Rise of the West

Chapters 15-17

REVIEW

Identify/define the following:

Ming DynastyZhengheGiottoDa Vinci

HumanismMichelangeloBrunelleschiGuttenberg

Vasco de GamaColumbusHenry HudsonCortes

Battle of LepantoPizarroAmerigo VespucciPetrarch

BoccaccioLouis XIVIsaac NewtonDeists

William HarveyCopernicusproletariatAdam Smith

Mary WollstonecraftEthnocentrismDescartesJohn Locke

KeplerGalileoFrederick the Great

  1. What were the causes of the decline of the Arabic Caliphate by 1400?
  2. Why did the Ming Dynasty halt its dominance of trade after the Mongols?
  3. What caused the Plague? Where did it start and why?
  4. Where were the main results of the Plague?
  5. What were the major causes of dynamism in the West?
  6. What caused the 100 Years War? What were the results of the war?
  7. What caused the War of the Roses? What were the results?
  8. How did family life change in Europe in the 15th century? Why?
  9. Where did the Renaissance begin? Why?
  10. Why did the Renaissance decline in Italy?
  11. What were the major differences between the Northern and Italian Renaissance?
  12. Who was Machiavelli? What did the Prince discuss?
  13. What caused the Reformation?
  14. What were some changes that Martin Luther made in the church?
  15. Why did some German elite support Luther?
  16. What caused the English Reformation?
  17. What did the Edict of Nantes do? Who overturned it? What effect did that have?
  18. How was Calvinism different from Lutheranism?
  19. What was the Counter (Catholic) Reformation? What were the results?
  20. What caused the 30 Years War? What were the results?
  21. What led to the English Revolution? What resulted from this?
  22. What was the Glorious Revolution? What did it help lead to in England?
  23. What allowed the West to fill the void left by the Chinese in world trade?
  24. What country originally led the Age of Discovery? What area in the new world did they claim?
  25. How were the conquistadors able to conquer much larger civilizations? What effects did they have on the native populations?
  26. What advantages did the Dutch and British have over the Iberian countries?
  27. How did exploration change the world? How did exploration effect European populations?
  28. What did the Spanish conquer?
  29. What is mercantilism? How did it encourage colonization?
  30. What was the Columbian Exchange? Be able to list what was exchanged.
  31. How did colonization increase the slave trade?Why?
  32. How did the slave trade affect Africa? The Americas?
  33. What was the Scientific Revolution? What were some major ideas that came out of this? Who came up with them?
  34. What was the Enlightenment? What were the major ideas?
  35. What was Hawaiian culture like?
  36. What did the Treaty of Westphalia do? The Treaty of Paris of 1763?
  37. What caused the 7 Years War? What were the results?
  38. What caused the witchcraft persecuations?