East Asia
Name 2 physical features of East Asia
deserts, peninsulas, mountains, plateaus, oceans, seas, rivers
Name 3 physical features of Southwest Asia and North Africa
Arabian Sea, Arabian Peninsula, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Med. Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Name 2 physical features of West Africa
Sahara, Atlantic, Savannas, Tropical Rainforests, The Sahel, The Niger River, Lake Chad, Cameroon Volcanic Line, Mount Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea, Djenne, and Timbuktu
Name 2 geographical features of Western Europe
Atlantic Ocean, peninsula, ural mountains, the Alps, English Channel, North European Plain, North Atlantic Drift
Name 2 economic motivations for exploring other places like Asia and the New World
Gold and Silver, Other natural resources, and potential for profit from trade
What was a "government led by a succession of rulers from the same family"?
Bonus: Name one of them
a Dynasty
Han, Tang, Sui, Song, etc.
What is the second biggest religion in the world and was founded in Arabia?
Bonus: What is the book they worship from called?
Islam
Quran
What is "a kinship system in which ancestors are traced through the mother's side of the family"?
Bonus: what about through the father's side?
A matrilineal system
A Patrilineal system
What was the system of government in the Middle Ages in Europe?
Bonus: What was the Economic system in Europe during the Middle Ages?
Feudalism
Manorialism
Name 3 European Explorers
Prince Henry of Portugal, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando de Soto, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson, Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizarro
What was the name of the person who became the leader of a large Mongol confederation. This name also means "Universal leader".
Genghis Khan
Name 3 important aspects of Islamic culture
Art, Geography, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Who are "West African storytellers and poets who recalled historical events and transmitted history and culture from one generation to the next"?
Griots
What was the document that King John agreed to that outlined the nobles demands in London? The name also means "great charter" or important agreement.
Magna Carta
What was the system called that the Spanish colonizers created as a way to control the indigenous peoples and get them to work for the Spanish Settlers?
The Encomienda system
Who encouraged many people to make the trek along the Silk Road?
Marco Polo
What was the empire called that took over after the Byzantine empire was in decline?
Bonus: Where were they from?
The Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Name one of the 3 West African Kingdoms that dominated until 1600 CE
How many crusades were there?
Bonus: what was an important impact of the Crusades?
3
United Roman Catholic and Eastern European Christian people, renewed economic activity, many Jewish people were killed, spread of Christendom
Columbian Exchange
What was the belief system unique to Japan called? It states that everything in Nature contains the spirit of a god.
Shintoism
What was Mehmed known for?
expanding the Ottoman territory, his nickname was Mehmed the Conqueror
What did Mansa Musa do?
ruled the Mali Empire for about 20 years, expanded the Mali border by about 2X its size, made Islam a bigger part of his people's lives, and made a Hajj (or a pilgrimage) to the city of Mecca
What was the infectious disease that was caused by bacterium that swept across Europe in the mid-1300s?
The Bubonic plague or black death
Name 2 specific tools, technologies, or food that were traded between the 2 hemispheres
Farming methods, horses, metal cookware, weapons, beans, cacao, corn, peanuts, pineapples, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, turkeys, bananas, cattle, chicken, citrus fruits, coffee, grapes, onions, peaches, pigs, rice, sugarcane, wheat