WH Unit 4 Vocabulary

What is the name of the compact instrument used in navigation to observe & calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant.

• mita

• quipu

• astrolabe

• simony

What is the name of the small versatile sailing ship of the 15th & 16th centuries that Europeans used in exploration; it usually had 3 masts with 3 triangular (lateen) sails?

• caravel

• Columbian Exchange

• Calvinism

• Council of Trent

The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, & later to North & South America, to be sold as slaves - so called because it was considered the middle leg of triangular trade.

• mita

• middle passage

• mercantilism

• mestizo

In the Incan Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.

• mercantilism

• middle passage

• mita

• mestizo

What is the independent state that has to acknowledge the supremacy of another state & pay tribute to its ruler

• Anglican

• Catholic Reformation

• Protestant

• tributary state

Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts & focused on human potential & achievements.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Simony

• Jesuits

A person of mixed Spanish & Native American ancestry

• Jesuits

• Quipu

• mestizo

• Columbian Exchange

The selling of official positions in the medieval Roman Catholic Church.

• simony

• shogun

• daimyo

• quipu

A policy used by the Tokugawa Shogunate to strengthen the authority of the central government & weaken the power of the daimyo.

• Calvinism

• Anglican

• Jesuits

• alternate attendance policy

The doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved.

• Catholic Reformation

• predestination

• Protestant

• Jesuits