Midterm Review#1

The power and wealth of the Catholic Church led to what?

What religion did the Trans-Saharan trade route spread?

What was the flow of ideas between the Old World and New World called?

Competition in what continent led to discovery of lands in the Western Hemisphere?

What invention increased literacy rates?

Where was the Songhai Empire located in 1500?

Where did Shoguns rule?

What did the Chinese create to control trade and keep out the influence of foreigners?

Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos/Mulattos, & Slaves/Indians was found where?

Who believed in salvation by faith alone and all humans were equal before God?

Where was Christianity concentrated in 1500?

What soft sciences did humanists study?

What granted Huguenots freedom of religion?

What ancient empire was located in modern day India?

What King of England broke with the Catholic Church because he couldn’t divorce his wife?

European migration to the Americans led to the decline of what 2 empires?

What were the causes for the Age of Exploration?

What helped spread the ideas of medicine, astronomy, and math?

What was the primary cause of the 30 Years War? Conflict between what 2 religions?

What did Martin Luther write in which he complained about the selling of indulgences?

Who was the Renaissance humanist author that wrote The Praise of Folly?

What is the practice of lending money while charging high interest rates?

Where was Cortez from? He conquered the Aztecs.

Which trade route connected China to the Mediterranean?

How did Japan control foreign influences?

What was the glorification of classical civilization and rebirth of knowledge?

Which empire traded silks, species, and gems?

What was the forced journey African slaves took to the Americas called?

Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?

Where was the Ottoman Empire located in 1500?

What is the theory in which colonists sent cotton to textile mills in Europe for manufacturing?

The Renaissance began in cities. In what modern day country were these cities in?

Where was Islam concentrated in 1500?

Who believed in the idea of predestination?

The Renaissance studied the ancient cultures of what two societies?