Unit 1
Agricultural laborers in feudal Europe
Who are serfs?
Overland trade route that connected East Asia with the Mediterranean
What is the Silk Road?
The exchange of plants, animals, and microbes between the Americas and Afro Eurasia
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first Atlantic Revolution (chronologically)
What is the American Revolution?
The 16th President
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A legal code inspired by the Quran
What is Sharia?
What is the Safavid Empire?
The capital city of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
General and leader of the Haitian Revolution
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture
Became the youngest winner of the Grammy's four main categories in 2020
Who is Billie Eilish
Which Buddhist tradition became more popular in China?
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
The Black Death was probably spread by trade routes and this nomadic conquering empire.
What is the Mongol Empire?
French king who is an example of absolutism.
Who is King Louis XIV?
Religious reform movement related to Islam - pushed for the end of minor pilgrimages, refocus on the Quran.
What is the Wahhabi movement?
The largest and tallest tree in the world.
What is the California Redwood?
Called "flying cash," this innovation helped China's market economy grow during the Tang and Song golden ages
What is paper money
What is the camel?
A central figure in Portugal's early maritime discovery, sponsored research that led to development of the Caravel
Who is Prince Henry?
Wrote that “The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties…, is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life” in 1892.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Country in which checkers was invented
What is Egypt?
The region most affected by the crusades
What is Europe?
Civilization that were trading centers linking the sea roads to Africa's interior
What are the Swahili City states?
Aztec term for merchants
What is a "pochteca"?
Wrote: Americans today . . . who live within the Spanish system occupy a position in society no better than that of serfs destined for labor, or at best they have no more status than that of mere consumers. Yet even this status is surrounded with galling restrictions, such as being forbidden to grow European crops, or to store products which are royal monopolies, or to establish factories of a type the Peninsula itself does not possess.
Who is Simon Bolivar
Technically called ailurophobia.
What is the fear of cats?