Trade Networks
This trade route connected East Asia to the Mediterranean.
What are the Silk Roads?
This Chinese dynasty ruled during 1644–1912.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This term describes the transfer of goods, people, and diseases after 1492
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This country started the Industrial Revolution
What is Great Britain?
This system organized society in India
What is the caste system?
This empire made Eurasian trade safer by protecting merchants
What is the Mongol Empire?
This empire used gunpowder to expand across Southwest Asia.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This was the most devastating effect on Indigenous populations
What is disease (smallpox)?
This energy source powered early factories.
What is coal?
This labor system involved forced migration of Africans
What is slavery (transatlantic slave trade)?
Clue: These seasonal wind patterns made Indian Ocean trade predictable
What are monsoon winds?
What is absolutism?
What is a system where a ruler has total power?
Name ONE crop that spread from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia
What is maize, potatoes, or tomatoes?
Name ONE social effect of industrialization
What is urbanization or growth of the working class?
Name ONE effect of slavery in the Americas.
What is racial hierarchy or economic dependence on slave labor?
Explain ONE effect of increased trade on cities.
What is the growth of urban centers and cultural exchange?
Explain ONE method rulers used to maintain power.
What is taxation, military force, or bureaucracy?
Explain ONE economic effect of the Columbian Exchange.
What is the growth of plantation economies?
Explain ONE reason industrialization spread
What is access to resources or imperialism?
Explain ONE change in social structure due to industrialization
What is the rise of the middle class?
Compare land-based and maritime trade networks (give ONE difference).
What is that maritime trade carried bulk goods while land routes focused on luxury goods?
Identify ONE similarity between land-based empires (1450–1750)
What is their use of gunpowder weapons or centralized authority?
Explain ONE global demographic change caused by the Columbian Exchange.
What is population growth in Afro-Eurasia due to new crops?
Explain ONE difference between industrial and pre-industrial economies
What is machine production vs. hand production?
Compare labor systems before and after 1750 (ONE difference).
What is free wage labor increasing after industrialization vs. coerced labor before?