Religion
What were the civil service exams and what was it based on?
The civil service exams was a system used in Imperial China to select government officials based on merit rather than rankings and connections. These exams were based on Confucianism teachings.
The Trans-Saharan Trade Route
This West African trading empire grew wealthy by controlling gold and salt trade routes across the Sahara.
The Mali Empire
This Chinese innovation helped merchants navigate more accurately by using Earth’s magnetic field.
magnetic compass
What is the Ming Silver Only Tax Policy and what resulted because of it?
The Silver Only Tax Policy was a single tax payment requiring people to pay in silver rather than labor or goods. This led to economic unrest and long term destabilizations when then led up to rebellions forming against Ming Dynasty.
The social hierarchy/system that structured India's society, was influenced by Hinduism, and divided the people into groups based on birth and occupation.
The caste system
What were 2 Chinese exports that were exported in the Silk Road and helped the trade markets grow, especially in the Song and Yuan dynasties?
silk, porcelain, tea
Which two empires had religious tension between Shia and Sunni Islam and fought for over two centuries?
What are the triangular sails that helped ships work around the monsoon wind patterns and help them to sail more efficiently through the Indian Ocean Trade?
lateen sails
It was a land grant system in which the sultan granted land to the slaves for their military service. This increased the centralized authority and established a more sophisticated army for the Ottomans.
The Chinese political concept claiming that a ruler's authority came from the divine gods.
The Mandate of Heaven
This ocean trade system relied on seasonal winds called monsoons to move ships between Africa, India, and China.
The Indian Ocean Trade Network
Name the three gunpowder empires that used gunpowder weapons such as cannons to conquer territory.
What were the two main global wind patterns that helped shape the Atlantic Ocean Trade routes?
Trade winds and westerlies
What was the series of civil wars in France fought between the peasants and King Louis XIV and what was the result?
The Fronde; King Louis XIV wins.
What is the Sharia law and why is it important?
It is a legal and cultural system in the Islamic religion that guides the people's daily life, law, and ethics.
What was the name of the system that traded crops, people, and diseases from the Old World to the New World?
The Columbian Exchange
What was the Mit'a System?
A labor organization under the Inca Empire in which the government decides and assigns specific labor forces to people. This led to economic efficiency and many public works projects.
What were the Bills of Exchange?
They were financial tools used in trade to and make long distance commerce safer. It helped to expand international trade networks making it easier to move money across longer distances.
What was the rising new elite class of Europe right above the peasants and ended up getting rid of the peasant class? What were two things that let them rise in the social hierarchy?
The Gentry Class; commercialization which was gaining money by selling their extra grain; the Enclosure Movement
What religion says that anyone can reach nirvana and end all suffering by following the Eightfold Path?
Buddhism
What were the three G's that drove European exploration?
What was the name of the empire that ended the Song Dynasty, Persia, Russia, and Abbasid Caliphate and became one of the most brutal unified empire in history?
The Mongol Empire
Champa rice
What is the mercantile system?
The economic system where the government controlled all the trade of imports and exports. This increased global competition and promoted colonialism.