History Exam 4 Final Review 1 Martin Luther is historically significant because he started the protestant reformation 2 John calvin is significant because formulated religious ideas that formed protestant Christianity 3 Huguenots and Catholics fought against each other in the French wars of religion 4 Example of absolutist monarch is Louis XIV of France the Sun King 5 The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V supported Catholicism and the papacy 6 Adam smith was proponent of capitalism 7 An economic system in which property change and the means of production are privately owned is capitalism 8 An economic approach based on a government policy of building a nations wealth by expanding reserves of precious metals is mercantilism 9 Capitalism contested medieval Christian attitudes about wealth 10 Between 1450 and 1750 representative governments arose in the Netherlands and England 11 One should associate john Locke most closely with empiricism which stresses experience and testing over reason alone 12 Between 1300 and 1750 Russia grew from a small to a empire 13 Vasco Da Gama is significant because he expanded portugese power 14 The Songhay Empire filled the political void left from the Mali and had Sonni Ali and Muhammad Askia among its rulers 15 The Kingdom of Kongo 16 East Africa and the States declined as a result of European exploitation 17 The middle passage was the slaces journey by ship from Africa to the Americas 18 Queen Nzinga of Ndongo was a brilliant diplomat and warrior 19 Suleiman the Magnificent was the sultan during the golden age of the ottoman empire 20 The devshirme system was the human tax the ottomans used 21 Among the factors that contributes to ottoman strength was the policy of choosing leaders based on merit and talent 22 The Safavids ruled Iran and reached their peak under Shah Abbas 23 Iran became a majority Shi ite country under the Safavid Shahs 24 The Sa idian Dynasty ruled morocco and fought portufal 25 The Cossacks were partly responsible for Russian expansion tough hard drinkers 26 According to Garcilaso de la Vega Inca women were not always happy about having to marry 27 Christopher Columbus might have gone a little crazy after discovering America 28 The Treaty of Tordesillas basically split the western hemisphere between spain and Portugal 29 The native inhabitants of both angola and Brazil were enslaved and worked to death by the 30 Bartolome de Las Casas was a Dominican friar who tried to defend native American rights 31 Palmares was an independed state founded by fugitive slaves in brazil 32 Toussaint Louverture is significant because he led a resistence that eventually led to Haitian Spaniards Portuguese Independence 33 Monoculture economies based on slave labor eventually created impoverished societies 34 The wealth of spain and Portugal melted away while Netherlands wealth grew because of formerly investment in banks 35 The Black Legend was the Spanish reputation for brutality toward the native Americans 36 The Mughal empire was a muslim empire in India 37 In contrast to Babur and Akbar Aurangzeb was markedly intolerant of hindus and Sikhs 38 Jean Francois Dupleix and Sir Robert Clive were men 39 The Sikhs disciples were member of a new indian religion 40 The Dutch East India Co dominated spice and coffee trade 41 The Spanish in the Philippines were just as interested in religious conversions as politics 42 Li Zecheng was leader of rebellion that helped topple ming dynasty 43 Kangzi was the first freat emperor of the Qing Dynasty 44 Qianlong was the Qing emperor who 45 Early Jesuit missionares like Matteo Ricci were successful because they had respect for Chinese culture 46 Zhang Han was a ming era merchant who wrote a critique 47 Tokugawa art forms included kabuki bunraky haiku 48 The Yi Choson Dynasty of Korea was Confucian and had close ties to china