Unit 1
This decentralized political and social system of Medieval Europe was based on a reciprocal exchange of land for military service and loyalty.
Feudalism
These roadside inns, spaced about 100 miles apart, provided food and rest for merchants and their animals, significantly increasing the safety of Silk Road travel.
Caravanserai
doctrine asserting monarchs derive authority directly from God, not from subjects, parliament, or the church.
Divine rights of kings or Divine right to rule
Name three sea-based empires from 1450- 1750.
What are two reasons why colonization took place?
France, Spain, The Dutch, British, Portugal
Consolidate power, looking for trade routes, new technology
intellectual movement when thinkers advocated for liberty, religious tolerance, and constitutional government.
Name two of those thinkers.
Enlightenment
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Inca Empire used this mandatory public service system to build their massive road networks and terraced farms.
The Song dynasty used what to place people in their bureaucracy?
Mit’a system
Civil Service Exam
Born with the name Temujin, he overcame a brutal childhood to unite the nomadic tribes of the steppe and forge the largest contiguous land empire in history.
This period of stability across Eurasia allowed for the safe passage of silk, gunpowder, and the Uyghur script, though it also inadvertently facilitated the spread of the Black Death.
Genghis Khan
Pax Mongolica
Who started the Protestant Reformation?
What famous paper did he write?
Name one problem he had with the Catholic Church?
Martin Luther
95 Thesis
Indulgences
This horrific leg of the Triangular Trade involved the forced transportation of millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to work on sugar and tobacco plantations.
Middle Passage
Name three Revolutions caused by the Enlightenment between 1750-1805 and put them in order.
American Rev
French Rev
Haitian Rev
Located in Baghdad, this renowned center of learning was a hub for translating Greek texts and advancing mathematics before being destroyed by the Mongols in 1258.
House of Wisdom
To manage the risks of long-distance trade, the Song Dynasty developed this early form of credit, allowing merchants to deposit money in one location and withdraw it in another.
Flying Cash (Paper Money)
Name three Gun Powder Empires.
Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, and Qing Dyansty
This dominant economic theory of the era argued that a nation’s power was based on its wealth (gold and silver), leading mother countries to strictly control colonial trade to ensure a favorable balance of trade.
Mercantilism
Name three inventions of the Industrial Revolution.
Steam Engine, Telegraph, Train, Spinning Jenny
This Hindu empire in Southern India was established by two brothers who converted from Islam back to Hinduism to create a barrier against northern sultanates.
Vijayanagara Empire
Name the three trade routes learned about in Unit 2.
List two effects of these trade routes.
Indian Ocean, Silk Road, Trans Saharan Trade Route
Cultural diffusion, Black Death spreads.
Under this Ottoman system, Christian boys from the Balkans were recruited by force to serve the state as elite soldiers or government administrators.
What is the system called and what were the soldiers called?
Devshirme system
Janissaries
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Name one benefit and one downside of it.
Exchange of goods, animals, people, and diseases between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
Smallpox and Slavery. Increase life expectancy in Europe.
Where did the Industrial Revolution Start?
Two reasons why it started?
Two effects the Industrial Revolution had.
England
Agricultural Rev, Colonization
Pollution, urbanization.
Who is the ruler who's 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca was so lavish that the amount of gold he distributed caused massive inflation in Cairo for over a decade.
What Empire was he the leader of?
Mansa Musa
Mali Empire
List three pieces of technology that allowed for travel on these trade routes.
magnetic compass, lateen sails, astrolabe.
This Mughal Emperor is famous for his policy of sulh-i-kul (universal peace), abolishing the jizya tax on non-Muslims and inviting scholars of all faiths to debate at his court. Also tried to make his own religion that combined many of the mainstream religions.
Akbar the Great
This Spanish labor system granted settlers the right to "demand" labor from indigenous people, theoretically in exchange for food, shelter, and "Christian instruction."
In the Spanish Americas, this rigid racial social hierarchy placed European-born "Peninsulares" at the top and American-born Spaniards, known by this name, just below them.
Encomienda System
Creoles
Define communism and tell me who invented it.
Define capitalism and tell me who invented it.
Karl Marx. Government owns everything no classes.
Adam Smith. No government involvement.