AP World Vocab Chapter 5

Conquistador from Spain that led the attack on Tenochititlan. He was joined by thousands of Aztecs carving a new mesoamerica, many elite Incans appreciated what he was doing.

The Americas: 90% of the Native populations died off because of sickness and disease. Europeans were foul and lived with animals which resulted in their higher immunity to diseases, that they brought over and killed everyone with.

Global 13th-19th centuries, world got unusually cold. Led to the rise of the Russian EMpire . Was probably due to volcano ash covering the sun, prominent in the northern empire.

The peak of the littl eice age in the 17th centurey. Sahara desert growth, dramatic weather events, epidemics, wars, droughts, life like actually sucked so hard.

trading of goods between the americas, europe, and africa. produce like potatoes, tomatoes, livestock like horses. Tobacco was also a huge good from the americas.

the government only paid attention to the economy, specifically in europe. reaped in bullion 9gold and silver stuff) encouraged exports, fueled european wars and colonial rivalry.

mixed race population, usually between spanish and native americans. .women seeking safety in a spanish house vs native abuse. largely hispanic but heavily looked down upon “illegitimate”

product of european african unions → 40 different groups, in colonial brazil. Many were primarily used for slave labor, pre dominated.

purely european colonies in the americas, where people settled. almost zero presence of indigenous africas or mixed races. They employed household slaves.

worlds largest states at its peak, in Moscow after mongol rule in 1480. Quickly conquered neighboring states, expanded their rule before they even were established. kick off was supported by the little ice age.

tribute, usually paid in cash to the monarch of the empire. massive quantities of fur from the siberians because they were valuable during the ice age.

during the qing dynasty, obvs, it was an expansion of territory during the 16th and 17th centuries. used defensively, unification of Eurasia through a chinese state.

Product of central asian warriors, muslims/turkish during 1526-1767. Provided a long interaction between muslims and hindus in South Asia, most famous empire was Akbar.

most famous emperor of the mughal empire. He gave women more human rights, reduced restrictions from religion, made a house of worship for many religions.

aurangzebwas the opposite of akbar, champion emperor of 1658-1707. bro was wayyy stricter than akbar, prohibited practice of Sati, encouraged Islam supremacy, reduced women’s basic rights, prompted hindu movements against mughals.

creation of turkic warriors 1300-1700, islamic worlds most significant empire. Independence of central asian pastoral women was diminished. Islamic women were protected a lot by Ottoman courts, highly cross cultural empire.

a process of sending off thousands of young christian boys into service of the state. forced to learn turkish, convert to Islam, trained for civil administration or military purposed.