Innovations of Networks of Exchange
Caravans crossed the Sahara thank to this animal and its improved saddle
This pandemic traveled along Silk Road and Mongol routes in the 1300s, killing a huge share of Eurasia’s population.
What is the Black Death (bubonic plague)
Historians use this name for the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals because cannons and muskets helped them expand.
What are the gunpowder empires
This philosophy stresses filial piety, social hierarchy, and loyalty to the ruler.
What is Confucianism
This Italian sailing for Spain reached the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus
Indian Ocean sailors adopted this Chinese navigation tool to find direction at sea.
What is the magnetic compass?
Islam spread into West Africa and Southeast Asia largely through this group,
Who were merchants (traders)
This empire is known historically as the largest land based empire
Mongol Empire
In medieval Europe, lords granted land to vassals(people below them) in exchange for this.
What is military service/farming
Potatoes, maize, and horses crossed the Atlantic in this exchange.
What is the Columbian Exchange
Muslim and Indian Ocean mariners used this triangular sail to sail with the monsoon winds.
What is the lateen sail?
When Buddhism blended with local Chinese beliefs along the Silk Roads, historians call this process this.
What is syncretism?
The Safavids made this branch of Islam their state religion, setting them against the Sunni Ottomans.
What is Shi’a Islam
Korea, Vietnam, and Japan adopted Chinese writing, Confucian ideas, and Buddhism, a process known by this term.
What is sinification
European states tried to build wealth by exporting more than they imported, an economic policy called this.
What is mercantilism
This lightweight currency, used in Tang and Song China, made long-distance trade easier than hauling coins.
What is paper money (flying cash)
This term describes the era of safe trade and communication across Mongol-ruled Eurasia.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
What policy did Akbar use to help maintain stability in the Mughal Empire's religiously diverse population?
What is religious tolerance
What major network of exchange helped Islam spread into South and Southeast Asia between 1200 and 1450,
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Route
What labor system forcibly transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic to work primarily on plantations in the Americas?
What is the transatlantic slave trade
Chinese ships with watertight compartments and stern-post rudders carried goods across the Indian Ocean.
What are junk ships
Mansa Musa’s 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca showed Mali’s wealth from trade in these two goods.
What are gold and salt
The Ottomans recruited Janissaries from Christian boys through this system.
What is the devshirme
This Chinese dynasty saw the rise of Neo-Confucianism, which blended Confucian ethics with Buddhist and Daoist ideas
What is the Song dynasty
Dutch and English trading companies raised capital through this business structure.
What is a joint-stock company