Basic knowledge for religions
The text of Hinduism.
What are the Vedas?
These winds help Indian Ocean merchants reach their destinations.
What are the monsoon winds?
The Ottoman Empire peaked under this ruler.
Who was Suleiman the Magnificent?
This peninsula was the home of the Portuguese Maritime Empire.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
This agricultural system is used in the Aztec Empire.
What are chinampas?
This Roman emperor legalized Christianity.
Who was Constantine?
This religion spreads widely through the Indian Ocean, the Silk Road, and Trans-Saharan trade networks.
What is Islam?
The year when the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople.
What is 1453?
This system grants land to Spanish conquistadors in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
This temple in Cusco was the most important religious site of the Inca Empire.
The name of God in Islam.
What is Allah?
This pandemic spread via Silk Road in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death?
The Mughal Empire greatly expanded and promoted religious tolerance under this ruler.
Who was Akbar the Great?
The Spanish spread these diseases to Indigenous people in the Americas, who had no immunity for them.
What are smallpox and measles?
This Aztec ruler governed the empire at its height before Spanish conquest.
Who was Montezuma II?
Non-Muslims in Islamic empires who were monotheistic pay this tax.
What is the jizya tax?
The Silk Road becomes significantly safer and more prosperous under this empire.
What was the Mongol Empire?
These were the centralized landowning elites in the Mughal Empire who were granted land and the right to collect taxes.
Who were the zamindars?
These companies establish colonies in the name of England or Netherlands.
What are Chartered companies?
Legacies of the Aztec Empire include these developments. (name two of them)
What are human sacrifice, step pyramids, and ball sports?
Two major deities in Hinduism.
Who are Shiva and Vishnu?
These merchant communities settle in foreign places to facilitate trade across Afro-Eurasia.
What are diasporic communities?
Religious differences that led the Ottoman Empire to fight against the Safavid Empire.
What is the conflict between Sunni Islam and Shi'a Islam?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Major achievements of the Maya civilization include these developments. (name three of them)
What are step pyramids, astrological calendars, astrology and written language?