history quiz 1

Michel de Montaigne's counterpoint on Europes growing imperial activities

Barbarism (everyone who's not greek is inferior) and skepticism

Genoese got __________ as slaves in trading of Black Sea

Black Americans

Initial justification of slavery by Europeans

Christianity

Two motivations for European exploration

Diaz religious, cortes economic

Role of Europe in world trade system b4 Columbus

Europe minor outpost, produced few products

European voyagers looking for wealth where in 15th century

Indian Ocean Trade

Who resisted the Portuguese efforts to gain control over Indian Ocean trade?

Muslim controlled port cities

Conquest of Constantinople and Expansion of Byzantine Empire

Ottomans control eastern sea trade, Europeans forced to use alternate trade routes to China

Islamic Empires dominated Middle East

Persian Safavid's and Turkish Ottomans

Major motivation for European exploration

economy/resources and huge global market

Change for justification of slavery btwn 15th to 18th century

focused on science and nature, not humans

Immigration patterns (forced and unforced) Europeans and Africans to the Americas

four times as many Africans migrated to America as did Europeans, africans forced and europeans unforced

What group dominated the Aztec state?

king Francisco Pizarro (God on Earth)

Treaty of Tordesillas

resolved conflict btwn spain and portugal, spain got west portugal got east

Cause of Inflation in Spain (16th)

rising demand in silver, expelled efficient workers (muslim and jews), overflow of silver

encomienda system

spanish crown gave conquerors right to land and to own peasants working on their land in exchange for food and shelter, concept of feudalism

how did Portuguese get their slaves?

sugar cane production and enslaved indigenous people / traded slaves with local leaders

Columbus and Caribbean

thought he was off the coast of Japan, called the people indian