Early Modern Period – 1450-1750
Key Terms
1. Babur2. Akbar
3. Sha Jahan
4. Charles V
5. conquistador
6. Henry of Navarre
7. Hideyoshi
8. Ivan the Great
9. Louis XIV
10. Prince Henry the Navigator
11. Oliver Cromwell
12. ronin
13. Sikhs
14. Suleiman I
15. Sunni Ali
16. Guinea states
17. Indo-Gangetic Plain
18. Lepanto
19. Act of Toleration
20. Capitalism
21. Entrepreneur
22. joint stock company
23. Dutch East India Company
24. British East India Company
25. Treaty of Tordesillas
26. Parlement
27. Baroque
28. Elizabeth I
29. John Calvin
30. English Enlightenment
31. Footbinding
32. German Entitlement
33. Huguenots
34. Italian Renaissance
35. Jesuits
36. Northern Renaissance
37. Philosophes
38. Puritans
39. Rococo
40. Architecture of the Renaissance
41. Deism
42. Patronage of the arts
43. Printing Press
44. absolute monarchy
45. boyars
46. Cossacks
47. creoles
48. devshirme
49. divine right
50. Dutch learning
51. encomienda
52. Enlightenment
53. Estates-General
54. Glorious Revolution
55. Hagia Sophia
56. Janissaries
57. Mancus
58. mercantilism
59. mestizos
60. Mughal dynasty
61. mulatto
62. nation-state
63. parliamentary monarchy
64. peninsulares
65. purdah
66. Qing dynasty
67. Reconquista
68. sovereignty
69. Taj Mahal
70. Tokugawa Shogunate
71. viceroyalty
72. caravel
73. Columbian Exchange
74. factor
75. Northwest Passage
76. Middle Passage
77. triangular trade
78. Catholic Reformation – Counter Reformation
79. commercial revolution
80. empirical research
81. excommunication
82. Enlightenment
83. heliocentric theory
84. indulgence
85. laissez-faire economics
86. natural laws
87. Nintey-Five Theses
88. predestination
89. Protestant Reformation
90. Society of Jesus
91. Martin Luther
92. Henry VIII
93. Protestant doctrines
94. Saint Ignatius Loyola
95. European religious wars
96. Thirty Years War
97. Louis XIV
98. Maria Theresa and Joseph II
99. Frederick the Great
100. English Civil War
101. Copernicus
102. Galileo
103. Sir Isaac Newton
104. Voltaire
105. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
106. class diversification in Europe
107. population growth and the Agricultural Revolution
108. Adam Smith
109. proto-industrialization
110. lodestone
111. Iberian wave of exploration
112. Prince Henry the Navigator
113. Christopher Columbus
114. Ferdinand Magellan
115. colonization
116. northern wave of exploration
117. Jacques Cartier
118. North American fur trade
119. Henry Hudson
120. New Amsterdam
121. Osman I
122. sultan
123. viziers
124. Istanbul
125. Mehmet II
126. millet system
127. harem
128. Siege of Vienna
129. Safavid Empire
130. Abbas the Great
131. Isfahan
132. Ming dynasty
133. Francis Xavier
134. Qing Empire
135. tea and Chinese trade with Europe
136. Kangxi
137. Ashikaga Shogunate
138. Onin War
139. reunification of Japan
140. Oda Nobunaga
141. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
142. Delhi Shogunate
143. Babur the Tiger
144. Aurangzeb
145. Sikhs
146. Askia Mohammed
147. gold trade in West and Central Africa
148. Osei Tutu
149. Boers
150. apartheid
151. Zulu
152. European and Arab domination of the East African-Indian Ocean trade network
153. Atlantic slave trade
154. sugar production and the slave trade
155. Hernan Cortes
156. Francisco Pizarro
157. New Spain
158. Spanish importation of smallpox and measles
159. Bartolome de Las Casas
160. silver mining
161. Portuguese sugar production
162. Peter Stuyvesant
163. Jamestown
164. Plymouth Rock
165. Massachusetts Bay Colony
166. French and Indian Wars
167. Russian-American Company