World Exploration and Trade
Africa
Islamic Civilizations
East Asian Civilizations
Terms and People
100
This commodity from the New World boosted the Spanish Economy and became a basis for other mercantile economies.
What is Silver (Bullion)?
100

This is the type of good that Africa received in the Triangular Trade.

What is Manufactured Goods?

100
The Ottoman Empire was mainly under this sect of the Muslim Faith.
What is The Sunni Sect?
100
This family came to power in Russia after Ivan the Terrible killed his only son and successor, and then died.
What is the Romanov Dynasty?
100

This explorer, sailing for Spain, reached the Americas in 1492

Who is Christopher Columbus?

200
This was Portugal’s one possession in the New World.
What is Brazil?
200
The Portuguese successfully converted this kingdom to Christianity in the 16th century.
What is The Kongo?
200
This practice was used by the Ottomans to covert young Christian boys into Islamic Janissaries.
What is Devshirme?
200
The Samurai answered to these feudal lords.
What is the Daimyo Lords?
200
This German monk broke away from the Catholic Church due to papal corruption, and formed the basis for Protestantism.
What is Martin Luther?
300
The trading of this fabric was France’s major economic venture in the New World during the 17th century.
What is Fur Trading?
300
This nation sent a large farmer population to settle in South Africa.
What is The Netherlands?
300

This system of land grants was used by the Mughals to reward officials

What is the zamindar (or mansabdari) system?

300
The Qing Dynasty came from this ethnic area, not China.
What is Manchuria?
300
This is the definition of Humanism, especially in reference to Renaissance Art.
What is a Focus on Humankind and its Abilities?
400
This city was once the capital of the Aztec Empire, before Hernán Cortés captured it in 1519.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400

In total, approximately this number of enslaved people were sent over the Middle Passage, especially to the Americas.

What is 10 million enslaved people?

400

Akbar created this religion in India in an unsuccessful attempt to unite the Hindus and the Muslims.

What is Din-i-Ilahi, or the Divine Faith?

400
The Qing Dynasty reached its largest size in this century.
What is The 18th Century?
400
This French Theologian founded a Protestant religion based on predetermination, the name of which is derived from his own.
What is Jean Calvin?
500
Pope Alexander VI made this treaty in 1493 to divide the Spanish and Portuguese areas of colonization.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
The Portuguese reached the Cape of Good Hope in this century.
What is The 15th century?
500
The Ottoman Navy lost dominant control of these two bodies of water in the late 16th century to Western powers.
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean?
500
This event made Japan retreat into isolationism to a point where it was cut off from much of the rest of the world.
What is the Introduction of Christianity to Japan by the Portuguese?
500
This was the Sociedad des Castas, and this was its hierarchy. (Hint - Give both the definition of the Sociedad des Castas, and the order of its hierarchy.)
What is The Spanish racial hierarchy in the New World, in which: Peninsulares > Creoles > Mulattos > Mestizos > Africans > Native Americans?
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