4.7 Social Structures
In New Spain, this racial hierarchy system classified people based on their ancestry, with peninsulares at the top.
What is the casta system?
This Spanish labor system initially forced Indigenous people to work in agriculture and mining in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
Despite European colonization, this East Asian country maintained its isolationist policies.
What is Japan? (during the Tokugawa Shogunate)
This syncretic religion in the Caribbean combines West African beliefs with Christianity, emerging from the transatlantic slave trade.
What is Vodou or Voodoo?
This type of question represents the acronym "DBQ".
What is a document-based question?
The elite warrior class in Japan saw its power decline during the Tokugawa Shogunate as centralized government control increased.
Who are the samurai?
This powerful class of bureaucratic scholar-officials in China retained influence under the Qing dynasty but had to accommodate Manchu rule.
Who are the scholar-gentry?
This intellectual movement, beginning in the 17th century, continued to challenge traditional authority and emphasize reason and scientific inquiry.
What is the Enlightenment?
This Mughal emperor promoted a new syncretic religion called Din-i Ilahi, blending elements of Islam, Hinduism, and other faiths.
Who is Akbar?
To earn full credit for using documents as evidence, a response must use at least this many documents to support an argument.
What is four?
In Mughal India, this group of landowning tax collectors gained power but sometimes resisted imperial control.
Who are the zamindars?
As European nations expanded the transatlantic slave trade, this demographic imbalance grew in African societies.
What is gender imbalance?
While European powers dominated global trade, this region remained a major source of spices and attracted European competition.
What is Southeast Asia?
This cultural and intellectual movement in Europe, spurred by contact with the Islamic world, led to new ideas in science and the arts.
What is the Renaissance?
This skill involves analyzing a document’s author, audience, purpose, or historical situation to provide deeper context.
What is sourcing or HIPP?
In Qing China, this ethnic group, ruling over a non-Han majority population, maintained power by enforcing policies like the queue hairstyle.
Who are the Manchus?
This Ottoman practice took Christian boys, converted them to Islam, trained them for military and bureaucratic service.
What is the devshirme system?
Despite the Columbian Exchange’s introduction of new crops and animals, this empire continued using traditional terrace farming techniques.
What is the Incan Empire?
The blending of Indigenous, African, and Spanish cultures in the Americas led to the creation of this unique art and architectural style.
What is Baroque?
A strong thesis in a DBQ must do these three things: respond to the prompt, make a historically defensible claim, and do this third thing.
What is establish a line of reasoning?
This former enslaved person led a rebellion in Russia against serfdom in the 1770s, highlighting tension within social hierarchies.
Who is Pugachev?
In England, these laws gave privileges to the landed gentry and reinforced their dominance over lower-class farmers.
What are the enclosure acts?
This labor system, where workers paid rent or provided labor in exchange for protection and land, persisted in Eastern Europe well into the 18th century.
What is serfdom?
The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci was known for his efforts to integrate Western scientific knowledge into this East Asian empire.
What is China?
In addition to using the documents, a high-scoring DBQ must include this type of evidence, which is drawn from a student’s own historical knowledge.
What is outside evidence?