AP World History Exam - Unit 4 Latest -

AP World History Exam - Unit 4 ( Latest -

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• Trans-Oceanic Trade

Answer: global trading system in the Caribbean and the Americans trade networks

extended to all corners of Atlantic Ocean

• Columbian Exchange

Answer: An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia

and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.

• Mercantilism

Answer: An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth

and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

• Triangular Trade

Answer: Trading System between Europe, Africa, and the colonies; European

purchased slaves in Africa and sold them to colonies, new materials from colonies went to Europe while European finished products were sold in the colonies.

• Middle Passage

Answer: A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to

North America and the West Indies

• Caravel

Answer: A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese

and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.

• Cartography

Answer: the science or the art of making maps

• Joint-stock companies

Answer: businesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses

• East India Companies

Answer: British, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government

monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions.

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• Royal African Company

Answer: a mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa

• Amerindians

Answer: American Indians

• Italian Renaissance

Answer: rebirth of Classical (Greece/Rome) art/architecture - hu- manistic focus - patrons - families like Medici and the Catholic Church - blended natural world w/ religion - transition away from religion

• Northern Renaissance

Answer: An extension of the Italian Renaissance to the nations of northern Europe; the Northern Renaissance took on a more religious nature than the Italian Renaissance

• The Medici

Answer: The Medici family was a family of bankers that started out as middle class & then loaned money to a guy that became the pope & then they became the wealthiest family in Florence. They sponsored many artists/architects like Brunesllshci & made lots of money off them.

• Humanism

Answer: A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical

texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Protestant Reformation

Answer: A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to

reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.

• Martin Luther

Answer: A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman

Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. He led the Protestant Reformation.

• 95 Theses

Answer: Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the church door at Witten- burg

which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation

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