Unit 1
What is the main idea of this section?
State-Building
What is the main point in this section?
Trade
Name one gunpowder empire.
the Qing Dynasty, the Songhai Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Safavid Empire
Who is the main group of people in this period?
Europe
What is Miss Gay's favorite hot beverage?
Coffee
What was the main technological advancement in Unit 1?
Gunpowder
Name one of the 3 major trade routes.
Silk Roads, Indian Ocean Routes, Trans-Saharan Routes
What is a bureaucracy?
a group of people employed by the government who do whatever the Emperor needs.
What is the main idea for Unit 4?
The establishment and expansion of sea based empires.
Who is Miss Gay's favorite historical figure from 1st semester?
Chinggis Khan
Who was in power in China during this time?
What came with trade routes in Unit 2?
Connected societies, cultural, environmental, technological goods introduced, and disease.
What is the main idea during this time period?
How land-based empires gained power and maintained power.
Name one form of maritime technology.
the lateen sail and the magnetic compass and improved astrological charts
What type of essay is on the exam?
LEQ
Organized political community under one government.
What is one of the major technologies that facilitated trade?
the saddle, lateen sail, sternpost rudder, magnetic compass, and astrolobe
Name one way that land-based empires gained and maintained power.
the establishment of bureaucracies, collecting taxes, and the use of religion, art, and monumental architecture.
Name 2 things exchanged from the Colombian exchange.
food, plants, animals, diseases, and humans.
Write a thesis answering this prompt:
Evaluate the extent to which trade shaped transregional states in the period 1200-1450.
While trade did spread diseases, such as the plague, across Eurasia, ultimately the diffusion of goods, ideas, and beliefs were more beneficial in improving the cultural, social, and political systems across the continent.
What was the Civil Service Examination?
A person needed to take the Civil Service Examination if they wanted to work in the imperial bureaucracy.
Who were the most important people during this time?
The Mongols.
Explain how religion was used in either the Islamic Songhai Empire or how it was used in Europe and its Catholic Church
unifying force (as in the Islamic Songhai Empire) and a dis-unifying force (as in Europe with the split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestants in the Protestant Reformation).
What was the most dominant economic system?
Mercantalism.
How did the collapse of the Mongols influence world history?
Lots to discuss....
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