UNIT 1
A fast-ripening, drought resistant strain of rice that allowed agricultural expansion in Asia just before the 11th century.
Champa Rice
Vast commercial trade networks across Eurasia that saw the first use of magnetic compasses and currency.
The Silk Road
Large, multi-ethnic states in Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories
Gunpowder Empires
Identify three advancements in maritime technology that allowed for global exploration
Better maps/charts, magnetic compass, lateen sail, rudder, understanding of tides and gravity, astrolabe
The idea that men hold the higher social standing in society
Patriarchy
In the 14th century Mansa Musa took a trip to this city which is the holiest city in Islam
Mecca
European political philosophy embraced by Henry VIII and Louis XVI claiming that God granted kings the right to rule over church and state by God.
Divine Right of Kings
Dynasty in China in the 15th century that limited Chinese trade for the dissolution of foreign influence
Ming Dynasty
A series of European military campaigns in the Middle East to spread Christianity from 1095 to the 1200s
The Crusades
Name one export from East Africa in the Indian Ocean Trade
Gold, Ivory, Animal Skins, Quartz
The group of people who were elite administrators in the Mughal Empire.
Zamindars
A revolt from the Pueblo and Apache that killed Spaniards for spreading religion in North America
Pueblo Revolt
A trade route in the 12th to 15th centuries that connected ports from East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. Grew due to maritime technology.
The Indian Ocean Trade
For 700 years, this trade route brought significant wealth to West Africa as well as spread Islam through Africa. Known for Gold or Salt
The trans-Saharan Trade
Religious movement led to the rise of Protestantism and the breaking away of the Catholic Church
Protestant Reformation
Name of the pre-19th century economy driven by gold and silver. Required colonies to trade only with their mother country.
Mercantilism
Name for religions that are blending or combining.
Syncretic religion
The plague between 1347 and 1351 that wipeout up to 25 million Europeans
The Black Death/Bubonic plague
The main reason for conflict that occurred between the Ottomans and the Safavids
Sunni / Shi'a Split
The type of trade between North America, Africa, and Europe that traded slaves, firearms, and other resources between the three
Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangle trade
Name of region known as : Everything that Islam touches
Dar-Al Islam
The leader of the Mongolian Kingdom beginning 1206. Known as the Great Khan
Genghis Khan
The tax on Christians in the Ottoman Empire that required families to give up their sons at a young age.
Devshirme
The order of domination of the Indian-Ocean Trade Routes. (Name at least three states in the order of domination.)
Muslims (Chinese), Portuguese, Dutch, English
a social structure that divides a population into a hierarchy of classes based on birth and the ideal of Hinduism.
Caste System
The term used for settlements of people away from their homeland. When these people move they bring their cultural practices with them.
Diaspora
The shogunate that unified Japan and also expelled all Christians.
Competition for the Indian Ocean Trade and trading settlements in Oman between Muslim traders and Christian traders from Europe that spurred Europeans to search for alternate trade routes.
The Omani-European Rivalry