Atahualpa Atahualpa was an Incan ruler. Near the city of Cajamarca.

Atahualpa commanded a force of about 30,000 mostly unarmed men. Spain crushed the Incan force and kidnapped Atahualpa. He offered to fill a room once with gold and twice with silver in exchange for his release. The Spanish strangled the Incan King. The Incan force retreated, Pizzaro then marched on to the Incan Capital, Cuzco. Captured it with out a struggle in 1553.

Bill of Rights In 1689, William and Marry accepted from parliament a bill of rights formal summary of the rights and liberties believed essential to the people. The English Bill of Rights limited the monarchys power and protected free speech in parliament. The Bill of Rights did not allow the parliaments consent, or to raise an army in peacetime without approval from Parliament. It assured the people the right to petition the king to seek remedies for grievances against government.

Christopher Columbus Columbus was a Genoese sea captain who made a daring voyage from Spain in 1492. Instead of sailing south around Africa and then east, he sailed west across the Atlantic in search of an alterative trade route to Asia and its riches. Columbus never reached Asia, instead he stepped onto a Caribbean Island. He called the inhabitants, Los Indios. A term translated into, India, a word mistakenly applied to all people of the Americas. Columbus had miscalculated where he was. He had ended up on an island in the Bahamas. The natives were not Indians, but a group who called themselves Taino. Columbus claimed the land for Spain and named it, San Salvador. Columbus was interested in gold, not finding any on San Salvador, he searched other Islands.

Divine Rights Absolute monarchs believed in this term. It was the idea that god created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as gods representative on earth. An absolute monarch answered only to god, not to his or her subjects. This occurred in the 1600s when monarchs on the European continent were asserting greater authority over lords when they had during the middle ages. Kings claimed not just the right to rule, but to rule with absolute power.

Enlightenment An intellectual movement that stressed reason, thought, and the power of individuals to solve problems. Known also as the Age of Reason, the movement reached its height in the mid 1700s and brought great change to many aspects of western civilization. The Enlightenment started form key ideas brought forth by two English political thinkers of the 1600s, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. They both had different conclusions about government and human nature. Philisophes held long challenges of ideas about society. They formed popular theories and wanted reforms on unethical ideas.

Great Fear A wave of senseless panic rolled though France. Nobles hired outlaws to terrorize peasants. Peasants soon became outlaws themselves, armed with pitchforks and farm tools, they broke into nobles manor houses and destroyed the old legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues. In some cases peasants would just burn the manors for the fact that they werent able to read documents since they laced education. Woman would riot for rising price of bread. Then they turned to the kings and queen. Women demanded that Lois and Mari return to Paris.

Geocentric Theory The theory that the earth was in the center of the universe. This idea came from Aristotle, the Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C. The Greek astronomer Ptolemy expanded the theory in the second century A.D. In Addition, Christianity taught that god had deliberately place the earth at the center of the universe thus a special place on which the great drama of life unfolded.

Hongwu Hongwu was a peasants son. He commanded the rebel army that drove the Mongols out of china in 1368. That year he became the first Ming emperor. Hongwu continued to rule from the former Yuan capital of Nanjing. He began reforms designed to restore agriculture lands devastated by the war, erase all traces of the Mongol past and promote Chinas power and prosperity. Hongwu used respected traditions and institutions to bring stability to China, he encouraged a return to Confucius moral standards. Late in his rule, however, when problems developed, he became a ruthless tyrant. He suspected plots against his rule, he conducted purges of the government, killing thousands of officials.

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle 1700s. Before the Industrial Revolution, people wove textiles by hand. Soon machines began to do this and other jobs. Soon the Industrial Revolution spread from England to continental Europe and North America. The resources that were needed were water and coal to fuel machines. Iron ore is needed to construct machines, tools, buildings and Rivers for inland transportation. Lastly they needed harbors from which merchant ships set sail. Because of the Industrial Revolution people were able to create inventions, like steam-driven locomotives or water transportation.

Johan Gutenberg Johan was a craftsman from Mainz, Germany. In 1440, he developed a printing press that incorporated a number of technologies in a new way. The process made it possible to produce books quickly and cheaply. With his improve process, he printed a complete bible, The Gutenberg Bible, in 1455. The printing press enabled a printer to produce hundreds of copes of a single work. The first books were mostly of religion, later developing into other books, such as, medical manuals or travel guides.

Kangxi Kangxi became emperor in 1661 and ruled for some 60 years. The reduced government expenses and lowered taxes. A scholar and patron of the arts, Kangxi gained the support of intellectuals by offering them government positions. He also enjoyed the company of the Jesuits at court. They told him about developments in science, medicine, and mathematics in Europe. China reached its greatest size and prosperity when his grandson Qian-long, ruled from 1736 to 1795. Qian-long often rose at dawn to work on the empires problems.

Legitimacy The great powers affirmed this principle, agreeing that as many as possible of the rulers whom Napoleon had driven from their throne be restored to power. The ruling families of France, Spain, and several states in Italy and Central Europe regained their thrones. The participants in the congress of Vienna believed that the return of the former monarchs would stabilize political relations among nations.

Montesquieu Baron de Montesquieu, was an influential French writer and Philosopher. He devoted himself to the study of political liberty. Montesquieu believed that Britain was the best-governed and most politically balanced country of his own day. Montesquieu had the idea of separating powers, he proposed that separation of powers would keep ay individual or group form gaining total control over the government. power, he wrote, should be a check to power. Later it came to be called checks and balances. The separation of powers and checks and balances became the basis for the United States Constitution.

Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte was born in 1769 on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. When he was 9 years old, his parents sent him to military school. In 1785, at the age of 16, he finished school and became a lieutenant in the artillery. When the revolution broke out, Napoleon joined the army of the new government. In only four years, from 1795 to 1799, Napoleon rose from a relatively obscure position as an officer in the French army to become master of France. In 1795 he was hailed savior of French republics, he defeated the royal rebels. In 1796, the directory appointed Napoleon to lead a French army against the forces of Austria and the Kingdom and Sardinia.

Atahualpa

Bill of Rights

Christopher Columbus

Divine Rights

Enlightenment

Great (F)ear

Geocentric Theory

Hongwu

Industrial Revolution

Johan Gutenberg

Kangxi

Legitimacy

Montesquieu

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ottomans

Presbyterians

Qing Dynasty

Reign of Terror

Social Darwinism

Thomas Jefferson

Utilitarianism

Voltaire

William Shakespeare

Boxer Rebellion

Yoruba

Emiliano Zapata

Ottomans Osman was a very successful ghazi (warrior). People in the west called him Othman and named his followers Ottomans. Osman built a small Muslim state in Anatolia between 1300 and 1326. His successors expanded it by buying land, forming alliances with some enemies, and conquering others. The Ottomans military success was largely based on the use of gun powder. They replaced their archers on horseback with musket-carrying fast soldiers. They also were among the first people to use cannons as weapons of attack. Even heavily walled cities fell to an all-out attack by the Turks. The Ottomans acted kindly towards the people they conquered.

Presbyterians John Knox was a Scottish preacher. Knox put Calvin Genevas ideas to work. Each community church was governed by a group of laymen called Presbyters. Followers of Knox became know as Presbyterians. In the 1560s, Protestant nobles led by Knox made Calvinism, Scotlands official religion. Swiss, Dutch, and French reformers adopted the Calvinist form of church organization. One reason Calvin is considered so influential is that many protestant churches today trace their roots to Calvin.

Qing Dynasty Northeast of the Great Wall of China lays Manchuria. In 1644, the Manchus, the people of that region, invaded China and the Ming Dynasty collapsed. The Manchus seized Beijing and their leader became Chinas new emperor. As the Mongols had done in the 1300s, the Manchus took a Chinese name for their dynasty, The Qing Dynasty. They would rule for more than 260 years and expand Chinas borders to include Taiwan, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet.

Reign of Terror In July 1793, Robespierre became leader of the Committee of public safety. For the next year, Robespierre governed France virtually as a dictator, and the period of his rule became know as the Reign of Terror. The Committee of public safetys chief task was to protect the Revolution from its enemies. Under Robespierres leadership, the committee often had these enemies tried in the morning and guillotined in the afternoon.

Social Darwinism In this theory, Charles Darwins ideas about evolution and natural selection were applied to human society. Those who were fittest for survival enjoyed wealth and success and were considered superior to others. According to the theory, nonEuropeans were considered to be on a lower scale of cultural and physical development because they had not made the scientific and technological progress that Europeans had.

Thomas Jefferson In July 1776 a political leader, Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Decleration of Independence and was Issued by the Second Continental Congress. The document was firmly based on the ideas of John Locke and the enlightenment. The Decleration reflected these ideas in its eloquent argument for natural rights.

Utilitarianism English Philosopher Jeremy Betham modified the ideas of Adam Smith. In the 1700s, Betham introduced the philosophy of utilitarianism. Betham wrote his most influential works in the late 1700s. According to Bethams theory, people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their utility or usefulness. He argued the government should try to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Voltaire His real name, Francois Marie Arouet. He published more than 70 books of political essays, philosophy, and drama. Voltaire often used satire against his opponents. He made frequent targets of the clergy, the aristocracy, and the government. His sharp tongue made him enemies at the French country and twice he was sent to prison. Although he powerful enemies, Voltaire never stopped fighting for tolerance, reason, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

William Shakespeare Shakespeare was the most influential writer of the Elizabeth age. Many people regarded him as the greatest playwright of all time. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small about 90 miles northwest of London. His works display a masterful command of the English language and a deep understanding of human beings.

Bo(x)er Rebellion Poor peasants and workers created a campaign against the Dowager Empresss rule and foreigner privileges. Their first secret organization was called the, Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, then know as the Boxers. In the spring of 1900, the Boxers descended on Beijing. In August a force of 1900 troops quickly defeated the Boxers. Despite their failure, a strong sense of nationalism had emerged in China.

Yoruba The Yoruba are in the south of Nigeria, who are mostly Christian, Muslims, or Animists, who believe that spirits are present in plants, animals and natural objects. The Yoruba, a framing people with traditions of Kings, live to the west.

Emiliano (Z)apata Zapata was a strong and popular leader who lead south of Mexico City. He raised a powerful revolutionary army. Zapata came from a poor family. He was determined to see that lad was returned to peasants and small farmers. He wanted the laws reformed to protect their rights.