Encyclopedia of World History: Volume III - The First Global Age 1450 to 1750 3

This comprehensive and authoritative set is rich in features to make the study of world history easier for students to understand. Arranged in six chronological eras that span prehistory to the present day, this chronological approach follows the way world history is taught and studies in the classroom. List of Articles 6 List of Contributors 10 Chronology 12 Major Themes 20 Abahai Khan 35 Abbas the Great of Persia 36 absolutism, European 36 Africa, Portuguese in 39 Akan states of West Africa 41 Akbar 44 Alawi dynasty in Morocco 44 Albuquerque, Afonso de 45 Almagro, Diego de 46 Altan Khan 48 Alvarado, Pedro de 48 Anabaptism 49 Andean religion 50 Anne 53 Araucanian Indians (southwestern South America) 53 art and architecture 54 Ashanti kingdom in Africa 57 Atahualpa 58 Atlantic islands of Spain and Portugal 59 Augsburg, Peace of 60 Augsburg Confession 61 Aurangzeb 62 Austrian Succession, War of the (1740–174 ) 63 Aztecs (Mexica) 64 Aztecs, human sacrifice and the 66 Babur 69 Bacon, Sir Francis 70 Bacon’s Rebellion 71 bandeirantes in Brazil 71 baroque tradition in Europe 72 Bible traditions 73 Bible translations 74 Boabdil (Muhammad XI) 75 Book of Common Prayer, the 76 Borgia family 77 Bourbon dynasty in Latin America 78 Boyne, Battle of the 80 Braganza, House of 82 Brazil, conquest and colonization of 83 Brest, Council of 86 British East India Company 86 British North America 86 Bull of Demarcation 90 Bushido, Tokugawa period in Japan 91 Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez 93 Cabot, John (c. 1451–c. 14 ) and Sebastian (c. 14 –1557) 94 Cabral, Pedro Álvares 95 cacao 95 caciques in Latin America 96 Cajamarca, Peru 97 Calvin, John 98 Caribbean, conquest of the 99 Central America, conquest of 101 Charles I 103 Charles II 105 Charles V (Charles I of Spain) 106 Chilam Balam, books of 108 Christian century in Japan 110 Christina Vasa 111 Church of England 112 Clement VII 114 Clive, Robert 115 coca 115 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 116 Columbian exchange 117 Columbus, Christopher 119 Commonwealth of England 121 Copernicus, Nicolaus 121 Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de 122 Cortés, Hernán 123 Cossacks 124 Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation) in Europe 125 Cromwell, Oliver 128 Cuautemoc 131 Cuzco (Peru) 132 De Soto, Hernando 135 Delhi and Agra 136 Descartes, René 137 Dias, Bartolomeu 138 Díaz del Castillo, Bernal 139 Diet of Worms 139 dissenters in England 140 divine faith in Europe 141 Dominicans in the Americas 143 Dorgon 145 Drake, Francis 146 Dutch East India Company (Indonesia/Batavia) 147 Dutch in Latin America 148 Dutch in South Africa 149 Eck, Johann Maier von 151 Edo period in Japan 152 Edward VI 153 Elizabeth I 154 encomienda in Spanish America 155 epidemics in the Americas 156 Erasmus of Rotterdam 159 Ewuare the Great 161 exclusion laws in Japan 162 expulsion of the Jews from Spain (14 ) and Portugal (14 7) 163 Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe(François Fénelon) 165 Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain 166 Francis de Sales (François de Sales), St. 168 Franciscans in the Americas 169 French East India Company 172 Fronde, the 174 Galileo Galilei 177 Gama, Vasco da 178 Geneva 180 Genroku period in Japan 181 George I 182 George II 183 Glorious Revolution 184 Goa, colonization of 185 Godunov, Boris 185 Great Wall of China, the 187 Guicciardini, Francesco 188 Habsburg dynasty 191 hacienda in Spanish America 192 Harvard College 193 Henry IV 194 Henry VII 195 Henry VIII 196 Hobbes, Thomas 198 Hohenzollern dynasty in Brandenburg and Prussia 199 Holy Roman Empire 201 honor ideology in Latin America 202 Hudson’s Bay Company 203 Huguenots 204 humanism in Europe 205 Humayun 208 Hutchinson, Anne 208 Ibn Ghazi, Ahmed 211 indentured servitude in colonial America 212 indigo in the Americas 213 Inquisitions, Spanish and Roman 214 Isfahan (Persia) 215 Ivan III the Great 216 Ivan IV the Terrible 217 Jahangir 219 James I (James VI of Scotland) 220 James II 221 Jamestown 222 Janissaries 224 Jesuits in Asia 224 Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo 226 João III the Pious 227 John III 228 Julius II 229 justification by faith 229 Kaikhta, Treaty of 233 Kangxi (K’ang-hsi) 234 Kepler, Johannes 235 King Philip’s (Metacom’s) War (1 75–1 7 ) 235 Knox, John 236 Kongo kingdom of Africa 238 Koprülü family 238 Korea, Japanese invasion of 239 Landa, Diego de 241 Las Casas, Bartolomé de 242 Lebna Dengel 243 Le dynasty of Vietnam 244 Leo X 245 Leo Africanus (Hassan El Wazzan) 245 literature 246 Locke, John 249 Louis XI 250 Louis XIV 251 Louis XV 252 Loyola, Ignatius of, and the Society of Jesus 254 Luba-Lunda 255 Luther, Martin 256 Macao, Portuguese in 259 Machiavelli, Niccolò 260 Magellan, Ferdinand 260 Malacca, Portuguese and Dutch colonization of 261 Malinche, La (Doña Marina) 262 Mamluk dynasties in Egypt 263 Marie-Thérèse of Austria 264 Maroon societies in the Americas 265 Mary I (Bloody Mary) 267 Mary, Queen of Scots 268 Maryland 269 Mary Tudor (Mary of France) 269 Massachusetts Bay Colony 270 Mather, Increase (1 –17 ) and Cotton (1 –17 ) 272 Medici family 273 Mehmed II (Mehmet II) 275 Melancthon, Philip 276 mercantilism 277 Mexico, Basin of 278 Mexico, conquest of 279 Ming, Southern 281 Ming dynasty, late 282 mita labor in the Andean highlands 284 Moctezuma II 284 Mohács, Battle of (Mohacz, Battle of) 285 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de 286 Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de 287 More, Sir Thomas 288 Mughal Empire 289 Münster commune 290 music 292 Nadir Shah 295 Nagasaki 297 Nahua (Nahuatl) 297 Nantes, Edict of 298 Natives of North America 299 Neo-Confucianism in Japan 302 Nerchinsk, Treaty of 303 Netherlands, revolt against Spanish rule in the 304 New France 304 New Netherland 307 New Spain, colonial administration of 308 New Spain, Viceroyalty of (Mexico) 310 Newton, Isaac 311 northwestern South America, conquest of 313 Nurhaci (Nurhachi) 314 Nzinga Mbandi 315 obrajes in colonial Latin America 317 Oda Nobunaga 318 Omani empire in East Africa 319 Oñate, Juan de 319 Osaka 321 Ottoman Empire (1450–1750) 322 Ottoman-Safavid wars 327 Panipat, Battles of 329 Peasants’ War 330 Penn, William 331 Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil) 332 Peru, conquest of 333 Peru, Viceroyalty of 336 Peter I the Great 336 Philip II 339 Philippines, Spanish colonization of the 341 piracy in the Atlantic world 342 Pizarro, Francisco 344 Plassey, Battle of 345 Popul Vuh 346 Potosí (silver mines of colonial Peru) 347 Powhatan Confederacy 348 printing press, Europe and the 349 Pueblo Revolt 350 Puritanism in North America 351 Puritans and Puritanism 352 Qing (Ch’ing) dynasty, rise and zenith 355 Qing (Ch’ing) tributary system 357 Quietism 358 race and racism in the Americas 361 Rajputs 362 Raleigh, Sir Walter 363 reducciones (congregaciones) in colonial Spanish America 364 Reformation, the 365 repartimiento in Spanish America 367 Ricci, Matteo 368 Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc and cardinal de 368 rites controversy in China 370 Ronin, 47 371 Roses, Wars of the 372 Sa’did dynasty 375 Safavid Empire 376 Savonarola, Girolamo 377 scientific revolution 378 Scottish Reformation 381 Sekigahara, Battle of (1 00) 383 Selim II 384 Sengoku Jidai 385 Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de 386 Seville and Cádiz 388 Shah Jahan 389 Shimabara Rebellion, Japan 390 ships and shipping 391 Shivaji 392 Sikhism and Guru Nanak 393 silver in the Americas 394 Sinan, Abdul-Menan 396 slave trade, Africa and the 396 Songhai Empire 400 Spanish Armada 401 Spanish Succession, War of the 403 Stuart, House of (England) 404 sugarcane plantations in the Americas 406 Suleiman I the Magnificent 408 Sunni Ali 409 Swiss Confederacy 410 Tabin Swehti 413 Taj Mahal 414 Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross 414 Thirty Years’ War 415 tobacco in colonial British America 417 Tokugawa bakuhan system, Japan 418 Tokugawa Hidetada 420 Tokugawa Ieyasu 420 Toledo, Francisco de 421 Tordesillas, Treaty of 422 Toyotomi Hideyoshi 423 Trent, Council of 423 Tudor dynasty 425 Valdivia, Pedro de 427 Valois dynasty 428 Vasa dynasty 429 Vespucci, Amerigo 430 Virgin of Guadalupe 431 voyages of discovery 432 Wanli (Wan-Li) 435 William III 436 Williams, Roger 437 Winthrop, John 437 witchcraft 438 Wu Sangui (Wu San-kuei) 440 Yi dynasty (early) 443 Yongzheng (Yung-Cheng) 444 Yucatán, conquest of the 445 Zenger, John Peter 449 Zheng Chenggong (Cheng Ch’eng-Kung) 450 Zwingli, Ulrich 450 Resource Guide 453 Index 457 Photo Credits 474 Maps 475 V. 1. The Ancient World : Prehistoric Eras To 600 C.e. -- V. 2. The Expanding World : 600 C.e. To 1450 -- V. 3. The First Global Age : 1450 To 1750 -- V. 4. Age Of Revolution And Empire : 1750 To 1900 -- V. 5. Crisis And Achievement : 1900 To 1950 -- V. 6. The Contemporary World : 1950 To The Present -- V. 7. Primary Documents ; Master Index. Edited By Marsha E. Ackermann ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Contains approximately two thousand essays that provide information on significant events, themes, and personalities in world history; arranged alphabetically within seven specific time periods, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, each with a chronology. Includes a selection of primary documents and a comprehensive index. Offers a balanced presentation of human history for a global perspective. Based on the National Standards for World History, this set is arranged in six chronological eras. Each volume era begins with essays that tackle large themes such as agriculture, science and technology, social and class relationships, trade and culture, and warfare.