Unit 1
What was the group at the bottom of the social ladder in the Song Dynasty
Merchants
What disease was the most devastating that was spread across the Silk Road?
Bubonic Plague/Black Death
What Safavid emperor built their empire on Shia Islam?
Shah Ismali I
What type of ship did Christopher Columbus use on his voyage in 1492?
Caravel
What is the concept/belief that "knowledge comes from sensed experience and observation"?
Empiricism
What was Muhammad before he became the prophet of Islam?
Merchant
What are Caravanserai?
Roadside Inns along major trade routes
Babur
What is cartography the production of?
Maps
What enlightenment thinker is known for their hatred of the "Cult of Domesticity"?
What is the "Holy Month" of Islam
Ramadan
What is a diaspora?
A community of nomadic people that move from place to place to get resources for themselves and their animals.
What is the buying and selling of church offices called?
Simony
What disease is responsible for decimating the population of the Aztec Empire?
Smallpox
What country started the Industrial Revolution?
Great Britain
What Empire brought Islam to India?
The Delhi Sultanate
What Ming Dynasty Exploring is most known for being associated with "Chinse Junk Ships"?
Zheng he
What invention helped spread the ideas of the Protestant Reformation?
Printing Press
What is the definition of Mercantilism?
The idea that a country should use all of its resources and land to increase economical wealth through more exports and less exports because wealth is a limited resource.
What revolution's theme is the rights to Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
The French Revolution
What 'caliphate' rose to power after the death of Muhammad? What were their defining characteristics?
A: The first caliphate to rise to power after Muhammad's death was the Umayyad Caliphate. Their defining characteristic was that they conquered a lot of land, but didn't force Islam onto the people they conquered.
C: The Umayyad came into power in 632 right after Muhammad's death. They didn't force people to convert to Islam, but highly encouraged it through the Jizya Tax.
E: The Jizya Tax taxed non-muslims, which encouraged them to convert. The Umayyad spread Islam through trade routes.
How did the invention of paper have the potential to drastically change the Silk Road?
A: Paper allowed for the first universal currency and for better documentation.
C: Before paper people bought goods with their own goods and services. With the invention of paper, the concept of easy-to-create money was born.
E: Paper also allowed for the documentation of trade, along with easier book writing which increased literacy rates.
How did Akbar promote tolerance in the Mughal Empire?
A: Akbar allowed his subjects to practice different religions and even participate in his court.
C: Akbar let Hindus serve in lower positions in his court, and even let Christians serve as Jesuits advisors. Akbar believed each religion had a nugget of truth to it, and also didn't believe in Theocracies.
E: Akbar also married a Hindu bride, while he was Muslim. Marrying someone of a different religion today is still rare, but was unheard of back then.
What are the defining characteristics of someone serving as an indentured servant?
A: People who served as indentured servants are poor. They volunteer as indentured servants with the hope of escaping their financial situation, with the hope of even earning the land they worked on.
C: Indentured servants usually signed 7-year contracts to work on the land of someone else (usually of high class) to earn money and eventually the land they worked on.
E: These indentured servants usually never actually escape their financial situation, as the people who had indentured servants had ways to keep them working for them. Whenever an indentured servant broke something or needed to spend money it would be subtracted from the money they earned working as a servant, which in turn required them to sign another contract to earn that money back.
What is the "Cult of Domesticity" and how did it impact the thoughts of Mary Wolstonecraft?
A: The "Cult of Domesticity" was the idea that women were only meant to get married, have children, stay at home, and do whatever they needed to do to make their man happy. Mary Wollstonecraft believed that given the opportunity women could do whatever men could do at an equal level.
C: Mary Wollstonecraft believed in women's rights, and that women should be allowed to get a higher education, and to be treated equally to men.
E: Mary Wollstonecraft believed that women weren't naturally inferior to men, but only seemed that way due to the lack of higher education women got.