4.7 Social Structures
4.7 Effects of Empire on Social Classes
4.8 Continuity and Change 1450-1750
4.5-ish Cultural Syncretism
DBQ trivia
100

In New Spain, this racial hierarchy system classified people based on their ancestry, with peninsulares at the top.

What is the casta system?

100

This Spanish labor system initially forced Indigenous people to work in agriculture and mining in the Americas.

What is the encomienda system?

100

Despite European colonization, this East Asian country maintained its isolationist policies.

What is Japan? (during the Tokugawa Shogunate)

100

This syncretic religion in the Caribbean combines West African beliefs with Christianity, emerging from the transatlantic slave trade.

What is Vodou or Voodoo?

100

This type of question represents the acronym "DBQ".

What is a document-based question?

200

The elite warrior class in Japan saw its power decline during the Tokugawa Shogunate as centralized government control increased.

Who are the samurai?

200

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?

200

This intellectual movement, beginning in the 17th century, continued to challenge traditional authority and emphasize reason and scientific inquiry.

What is the Enlightenment?

200

This Mughal emperor promoted a new syncretic religion called Din-i Ilahi, blending elements of Islam, Hinduism, and other faiths.

Who is Akbar?

200

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?

300

In Mughal India, this group of landowning tax collectors gained power but sometimes resisted imperial control.

Who are the zamindars?

300

As European nations expanded the transatlantic slave trade, this demographic imbalance grew in African societies.

What is gender imbalance?

300

While European powers dominated global trade, this region remained a major source of spices and attracted European competition.

What is Southeast Asia?

300

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?

300

This skill involves analyzing a document’s author, audience, purpose, or historical situation to provide deeper context.

What is sourcing or HIPP?

400

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?

400

This Ottoman practice took Christian boys, converted them to Islam, trained them for military and bureaucratic service.

What is the devshirme system?

400

Despite the Columbian Exchange’s introduction of new crops and animals, this empire continued using traditional terrace farming techniques.

What is the Incan Empire?

400

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?

400

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?

500

This former enslaved person led a rebellion in Russia against serfdom in the 1770s, highlighting tension within social hierarchies.

Who is Pugachev?

500

In England, these laws gave privileges to the landed gentry and reinforced their dominance over lower-class farmers.

What are the enclosure acts?

500

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?

500

The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci was known for his efforts to integrate Western scientific knowledge into this East Asian empire.

What is China?

500

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?

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