Darty EUH 2000
Chapter Twelve "European Empires" Exam Terms


Ptolemaic sphere, terra incognita, Mundus Novus
Ottoman spice trade, Portuguese spice trade, passage to India, caravel, "Gold, God, and Glory"
Explorers: Prince Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Sebastian Elcano, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Amerigo Vespucci
Male Leaders: (who were they, which country, accomplishments) Ferdinand of Aragon, Ivan III "the Great", Ivan IV "the Terrible", Casimir IV, Vlaislav II, Henry VI, Henry Tudor (also Henry VII), Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, Henry VIII, Maximilian I (HRE), Charles V (also Charles I of Spain), Thomas Cromwell, Louis XI "the Spider", Francis I (FR), Suleiman the Magnificent (OTT)
Female Leaders: (who were they, which country, accomplishments) Isabella of Castile, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth of York, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn
Spain, Spanish Cortes, conversos, Spanish Inquisition, Reconquista--conquest of Granada, Moors, conquistadores, patronage, adelantados
Columbian Exchange; Aztecs, Montezuma II, Tenochtitlan, characteristics; Incas, characteristics
Literature: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Mexico; Luiz de Camoes, Lusiads; Bartolome de Las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies; Claude de Seyssel, The Monarchy of France;
New Monarchies, khanates, dynastic marriages
Muscovy, boyars, Zemsky Sobor
Poland-Lithuania
England, Wars of the Roses (1455-1485), Earl Humphrey of Gloucester, Duke John of Bedford, Duke Richard of York, Earl of Warwick, Battle of Bosworth Field, Parliament
France, langue d'oc vs langue d'oil, Salic law, House of Valois, Burgundian Inheritance, Estates General, taille, gabelle, aide
Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Dynasty
The Field of the Cloth of Gold, Treaty of Madrid (1526), Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1556)


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