Unit 1
Political continuity through the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Based on confucian principles.
What is the civil service exam?
Landbased network of exchange connecting East Asia to Europe.
What were the Silk Roads?
System utilized by the Ottoman Empire to recruit elite soldiers and officials from enslaved Christian boys.
What was the devshirme system
Portuguese prince started a navigation school and sponsored early voyages down the African coast.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
Empire that ruled the Islamic world during its Golden Age from Baghdad until the Mongols destroyed it in 1258.
What was the Abbasid Caliphate?
What is imperial bureaucracy?
The cultural belief system of Islam spread primarily along this network of exchange.
What was the Trans-Saharan Trade Route?
Technological innovation, originating in China, utilized by a variety of land-based empires during the time period 1450-1750 including the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals.
What was gunpowder?
New "super-foods" that caused a population boom in Eurasia following the Columbian Exchange.
What were potatoes and maize (corn)?
Labor system that became a continuity in mesoamerica following Spanish colonization in the 1500s.
What was the Mi'ta system?
Technological innovation that originated in China and led to cultural growth and development.
What is Woodblock Printing?
Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism are the three main religions that spread across this network.
What was the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
Hagia Sophia, Suleymaniye Mosque, Palace of Versailles.
What are examples of Monumental Architecture?
Precious metal from South America that became vital to the Europeans as the only means of trading with China.
What was silver?
The two most significant and high-value commodities traded in Africa during the time period 1200-1450.
What were gold and salt?
Agricultural innovation in mesoamerica that allowed for the use of nightsoil on floating gardens to produce food more frequently.
What were Chinampas?
A period of relative peace and stability throughout Eurasia during the 13th and 14th centuries.
What was the Pax Mongolica?
Who was Akbar?
Joint-stock company that dominated the spice trade in Southeast Asia by replacing the Portuguese.
What was the Dutch East India Company?
In the Mughal Empire, these local aristocrats and land revenue collectors were responsible for gathering taxes from the peasantry.
Who were Zamindars?
Political system used both East Asia and Mesoamerica, predominantly by the Chinese and Aztecs, which contributed to political and cultural domination through forced gift giving.
What was the Tribue System?
Chan/Zen Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, Swahili Culture/Language
What are syncretic systems?
Meeting of Catholic leaders from 1545 to 1563 as part of a Catholic Reformation to fix corruption and reaffirm traditional doctrines.
What was the Council of Trent?
Economic system that gave Spaniards the right to own land AND the people on it in South America in exchange for "protection" and food.
What was the Encomienda System?
Hairstyle imposed by the Qing Dynasty to demonstrate submission of the Han Chinese, establishing a new social order.
What is the queue?