Noble / Military Roles
A mid-level role in Feudal Japan's warrior class, later rising to the top of the social caste. Used weapons such as bows, spears, and katanas, and are also heavily featured in pop culture
What is a samurai?
Floating gardens or artificial islands popularized by the Aztecs.
What are Chinampas?
A way of life centered on human interests and values; focused on the welfare of humans rather than Gods.
What is humanism?
Empires centered around naval endeavors and overseas conquest.
What are maritime empires?
Discrimination, prejudice, or hatred towards people of Jewish heritage, descent, or beliefs.
What is antisemitism?
The ideology that kings received their nobility as a God-given right; also known as absolutism.
What is the divine right of kings?
Exchange of goods across the Atlantic between Africa, Europe, and the Americas through a route that was charted to avoid laws against mercantilism.
What is the triangular trade route?
A monotheistic Indian religion started by Guru Nanak.
What is Sikhism?
An Incan tribute system that mandated public labor.
What is the mit'a system?
Nomadic members of a massive Central Asian tribal group that conquered large portions of Asia in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Who were the Mongols?
The elite corps members that made up the Ottoman standing armies composed mostly of Christian hostages.
What are janissaries?
The main routes on which slaves were shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
A Carribean religion combining West African and Catholic beliefs.
What is santeria?
A Spanish labor system that provided rewards to those who conquered other peoples of Non-Catholic faith.
What is the encomienda system?
A major English document that established that the king's power did not override English law, passed in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
Great lords in the Feudal Japan warrior class that were vassals of the elite Shoguns.
What is are daimyos?
An early astronomical instrument used for maritime navigation.
What is the astrolabe?
Similarly to Santeria, it was a syncretic New World faith that combined animistic aspects of West Africa and Christianity.
What is vodun?
A business whose shares of its stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.
What is a joint stock company?
The Chinese ethnic group that established the Qing Dynasty; had culture rooted in strong military tradition and nomadic tendencies, similar to the Mongols.
Who were the Manchus?
The reigning Russian dynasty that held power from 1613 to 1917, rising to prominence a few decades after Ivan the Terrible's death.
What is the Romanov Dynasty?
A series of interconnected canals connecting major rivers in China.
What is the grand canal?
A system based around nations exporting more goods than they import. Looked down upon by East Asian culture, but a central factor of Western European colonialism.
Mercantilism
A British joint stock company created to involve British merchants in the Indian Ocean trade.
What is the East India Company?
A syncretic, Persian-influenced literary form of Hindi featuring Arabic characters, largely spoken in India and Pakistan.
What is Urdu?