Unit 1: Global Tapestry
This Islamic center preserved Greek knowledge and advanced science.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This trade route focused on luxury goods and supported the spread of gunpowder.
What is the Silk Road?
These empires used gunpowder weapons to expand (Three answers).
What are the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires?
Enlightenment thinker who promoted natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
Motivation for exploration often summarized as “Gold, God, ___.”
What is Glory?
This social system remained in India despite the arrival of Islam.
What is the caste system?
This empire made trade safer across Eurasia (Pax Mongolica).
What is the Mongol Empire?
This belief justified a monarch’s rule as coming from God.
What is Divine Right of Kings?
This revolution was a successful slave revolt and started organized rebellions around the world.
Labor system used by the Spanish in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
This empire used the mit’a labor system.
What is the Inca Empire?
These winds powered Indian Ocean trade.
What are Monsoon Winds?
This event began with Martin Luther’s 95 Theses.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This revolution began in Britain and used factories and steam power.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This rebellion in China resisted foreign influence.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This African kingdom grew wealthy from gold trade and adopted Islam.
What is Mali?
This disease killed about 1/3 of Europe.
What is the Black Death?
Exchange of crops, animals, and diseases between Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Japan’s rapid industrialization and modernization effort.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This trade network spread Islam along the Swahili Coast.
What is the Indian Ocean trade?
This philosophy blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
This trade network connected Africa via gold and salt exchange.
What is Trans-Saharan trade?
Economic system where colonies provide raw materials to the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Belief used to justify imperialism based on “survival of the fittest.”
What is Social Darwinism?
This concept explains how strong armies, taxation, and bureaucracy stabilize empires.
What is centralization of power?