Chap 1
What is the drought resistant strain of rice from South East Asia.
What is Champa Rice
What is the Gobi Desert
Desert in East Asia
Who was the best ruler of the Mughal Empire
Akbar
What did John Cabot look for?
A Northwest Passage
who wrote the book Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
What was China's bureaucratic system in the 13th century called.
What is Meritocracy
What is Pax Mongolica
Period of Eurasian history between the 13th and 14th century.
When did the ottoman empire decline
1571
Was was the first settlement in North America in 1607
It was called Jamestown
What is Laissez faire
a french term that means leave alone where government should not interfear with private buisnesses.
What was foot binding.
The practice of binding women's feet that was banned in 1912.
What desiese originated in China and travelled to europe
The Bubonic plague
What is a tax farmer
A person who oversaw the collection of taxes for the government
Which Explorer got mutinied against in North America
Henry Hudson
What is a social contract
give up some rights in return for law and order
What is the Abbasid Caliphate.
A group led by Arabs and Persians.
What sailing inventions were created in the Han dynasty
rudder, magnetic compass
What was Louis XIV nick name
The Sun King because he was the number on person in france
What was the route called between Africa and the Americas that transported slaves
The Middle Passage
Who created interchange parts
Eli Whitney
Who was the richest person in the world and what did he do that is so famous
Mansa Musa was the Richest person in the world and what made him so famous is he went to Mecca and gave so much gold it inflated the Egyptian economy where every thing lost value.
Why was the Mongol Empire so powerful
The mongol Empire was so powerful because of the way the army was formed and how they were nomadic and could move quickly also they let people keep their traditions if they submittied to them.
Why were Martin Luther 95 thesis so import
They were so important because the educated people on the lies of the chaloic church and how they just wanted money and he said you can be religous but dont have to give tidings to the church
Why did the americas need slaves
They need them to support their economy and to harvest crops so they could make profit and they were also cheaper to use than the few other people in the colonies.
Why was the declaration of independence so important
It told England that the colonies could control themselves and that they did not need an overlord to tax them on everything and that they were on their own.