The Global Tapestry
(1200-1450)
(1200-1450)
This Chinese dynasty (960–1279) is often called a "golden age" due to its economic revolution, urbanization, and advances in agriculture and commerce.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This vast overland trade network connected China to the Mediterranean and facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and disease for centuries.
What are the Silk Roads?
This empire, founded by Temujin, became the largest contiguous land empire in history and connected Eurasia through conquest and trade.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between hemispheres after 1492 included the forced migration of millions of enslaved Africans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This painful practice, which became widespread during the Song Dynasty, symbolized the tightening of patriarchal control over women in China.
What is foot binding?
This East African coastal civilization grew wealthy by serving as a middleman in Indian Ocean trade, blending Bantu and Arab cultural influences.
What is the Swahili Civilization?
This Mughal emperor was known for his policy of religious tolerance toward Hindus, contrasting sharply with his later successor Aurangzeb.
Who is Akbar?
This economic policy, practiced by European maritime empires, held that colonies existed primarily to enrich the mother country through the extraction of resources and control of trade.
What is Mercantilism?
This West African empire, centered at Timbuktu, grew enormously wealthy through trans-Saharan gold and salt trade and became a center of Islamic learning.
What is Mali?
This epidemic, spread partly along Mongol trade routes in the mid-1300s, disrupted societies across Eurasia and killed an estimated one-third of Europe's population.
What is the Black Death?
Though both the Ottoman and Safavid empires were Islamic, they were fierce rivals. Name the PRIMARY religious difference that divided them.
What is Sunni vs. Shia Islam?
The massive death toll of Indigenous peoples following European contact caused primarily by disease.
What is the Great Dying?
These long-distance merchants in the Aztec Empire operated as a distinct social class, trading luxury goods and gathering intelligence for the emperor — a key contrast to how the Inca administered their empire.
Who/What are the Pochteca?
This Chinese Muslim admiral led massive naval expeditions into the Indian Ocean in the early 1400s, demonstrating China's maritime power before it abruptly stopped.
Who is Zheng He?
This Ottoman practice of conscripting young Christian boys, converting them to Islam, and training them as elite soldiers or administrators was a key tool of imperial control.
What is the Devshirme system?
These runaway enslaved communities, such as Palmares in Brazil, resisted the Atlantic slave system by establishing independent settlements in remote areas.
What are Maroon societies?