Chapter 14

With its access to gold and the revenues from slave trading, _______ was the richest state in West Africa.

What was the name of the Mexican nun who studied mathematics and science?

The first British colony in Australia was actually a prison colony.

Which scientist discovered gravity?

Which English scientist developed the scientific method (real science=the formulation of hypotheses and their testing)

What types of books were the most popular in the Chinese literary marketplace?

In the early colonization, Europeans mixed with Natives because there were many more men than women among the colonists

A impact of Enlightenment was to end the subordinate status of women as ALL thinkers believed woman shld be independent

________ wrote The Wealth of Nations, a book which described universal economic principles

What is the name of the religious schools in the Ottoman empire that trained the ulama to be judges and experts?

European colonists NEVER assimilated into Amerindian society or voluntarily joined native communities.

Enlightenment thinkers Carolus Linnaeus attempted to divide humanity up into different groups, or races; led to racism

What flower was a symbol of the Ottoman sultans and appeared on tiles, fabrics, and buildings?

___: the practice of taking botanical information from one place and using it in another and thereby adding value to it.

Enlightenment thinkers, called ____, applied scientific reasoning to human interaction, to society instead of nature

The ___ of Australia numbered only about 300,000 and were mostly hunter-gatherers when colonizers came to the region

European exploration of the South Pacific was purely for scientific purposes and not for imperial expansion.

What animal did British settlers bring to Australia to lay the foundations of the region's wool-growing economy?

The _____ class, people born in Spain or Portugal but living in America ruled over colonial society in Spanish America

The Enlightenment had little to no impact on British America.

What is the native Japanese religion that involves venerating ancestors and worshipping kami (gods in nature)?

Captain _______ was the most famous European explorer of Oceania and the South Pacific

What Iranian city was not only the political capital but also the cultural center of the Safavid Empire?

The work of Copernicus and Galileo contradicted age-old assumptions by proving...

In Tokugawa Japan, the most popular from of theater among rough urban dwellers was ____

The Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, ordered the construction of the ________, a tomb for his wife.

A Hungarian convert to Islam, brought European scientific knowledge and practices to the Ottoman Empire,

One major change to European society that most Enlightenment thinkers called for was....

_____ missionaries attempted to convert Amerindians and African slaves the most.

As late as the Tang-Song period, elite Chinese women practiced footbinding, where delicate feet came to signify feminity