Silk Roads
After the Mongols fell, this Chinese dynasty took over and finished the Great Wall.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This European country was the first to sail around Africa to reach the Indian Ocean.
What is Portugal?
substance used in cannons that gave these empires their name.
What is Gunpowder?
The crop was grown on huge plantations and became the world's most traded item.
The exchange describes the movement of plants and animals between hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These inns or hotels were built along the Silk Road for camels and travelers to rest.
What are Caravanserai?
This Company (the VOC) became a global powerhouse in the spice trade.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
empire in India was famous for its religious tolerance under King Akbar.
What is the Mughal Empire?
These Spanish "C" words were the soldiers who conquered the Aztecs and Incas.
Who are Conquistadors?
This theory, proven by Galileo, said that the Earth moves around the Sun.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This paper invention from China allowed traders to travel without heavy bags of coins.
What is flying cash?
These "S" city-states in Africa traded gold and ivory for Asian porcelain.
What are the Swahili city sates?
This Ottoman Sultan conquered many lands and was known as The Lawgiver.
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
This was the name for people of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
What are Mestizos?
This movement led by Martin Luther split the Catholic Church into new groups.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This was the main luxury fabric traded by China that everyone in the West wanted.
What is silk?
This "C" ship was a light, fast vessel that allowed the Portuguese to explore.
What is a Caravel?
This empire in Persia modern Iran was the great rival of the Ottomans.
What is the Safavid Empire?
The system allowed Spanish settlers to force Native Americans to work for them.
What is the Encomienda System?
Revolution changed how people used logic and math to understand the world.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This religion's missionaries used the Silk Road to spread their faith into East Asia.
Who are Buddhists (or Christian Jesuits)?
This was the center part of the trade network that brought enslaved people to the Americas.
What is the middle passage?
This system was how the Ottomans recruited Christian boys into the military.
What is the Devshirme?
city in Bolivia was home to the world's largest and deadliest silver mine.
What is PotosÃ?
This French "Sun King" showed his absolute power by building the Palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?