Unit 1
What type of food doubled the population of the Song Dynasty?
Champa rice
Silk + Cotton textiles
Slaves
Spices
Metals + Gems
Porcelain
What Empire did the Janissaries warriors belong to?
Ottoman Empire
What was a Caravel?
A ship known for its speed, agility, durability, and cargo hold.
Who was a pivotal thinker of the Enlightenment?
John Lock
What are 3 core beliefs/practices of Christianity?
Bible
Monotheistic
Crusification of Jesus for our sins
Salvation
Mission to convert
Aberhamic faith
What transportation technologies facilitated trade along the Silk Road?
Caravanserai
Camels saddles
Stirrups
tax farming
What are the 3 G's that maritime exploration in Europe?
GOLD, GOD, GLORY
What are our natural rights?
Not depended on laws or custums and no one can be alienated from these natural rights of life, liberty and property.
What was the role of the serfom in Europe?
Main kind of cohesive labor, serfs produced food for everyone
Explain the impact the Indian Ocean trade had on the Swahili city states.
Trade of luxury goods brought wealth to the city states, formed a more centralized government
What is the difference between Sunni and Shi'a Islam, specificly how do followers believe their ruler should be chose?
Sunni = most capable for the job
Shi'a = blood relative of Muhammad
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The transfer of plants, animals, and germs across the Atlantic and the Americas and Afro Eurasia.
What is the Social Contract
The joining together of people into civil society, a ruler must have the consent of the governed.
Describe the Manorial System.
Muslim and Chinese diasporic merchant communites
The Protestant Reformation inspired the challenging of authority. For example once people began to individually interpert the Bible/learn more about Christianity they where lead to dive into the sciences.
Describe European trading posts in Africa?
fortified markets and cities on the coast
Heavy insentive for slaves put on kings by the Europeans. Slaves where generally form the loosing side of a war across tribes or criminals.
Who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Mary Wollstonecradt
What type of farming technique did the Mexica empire use?
floating soil --> "raised beds"
Explain how the Mongol Khanates developed?
The Mongol Khanates developed when surrounding empires began to collapes. Those Empires were replaced by imperial states.
List the SPICE-T elements of the Safavid Empire.
S - high population of farmers
P - fought with the Ottomans + bureaucracy
I - drought
C - spoke Turkish + Sufi
E - high taxes ( + high revenue form selling carpets)
T - Gunpowder!
Who was the Queen of Ndongo (a state on the highlands of the coast of Africa) who defeated the Portuguese?
Queen Ana Nzinga
Explain the technologies that led to the increase of trade and migration in this time period.
Railroads, steamships, and the telegraph made overall development along with exploration and communication possible in the interior regions, this of course led to more trade and migration.