UNIT 1
A fast-ripening, drought resistant strain of rice that allowed agricultural expansion in Asia just before the 11th century.
What is Champa Rice?
Vast commercial trade networks across Eurasia that saw the first use of magnetic compasses and currency.
What is the Silk Road?
Large, multi-ethnic states in Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories.
What are the Gunpowder Empires?
Identify three advancements in maritime technology that allowed for global exploration
What are, Better Maps/Charts, Compass, Lateen sail, Rudders, Understanding of tides and gravity, astrolabe?
An intellectual and philosophical movement that took place in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What is the Enlightenment?
Movable type printing, the development of gunpowder for weaponry, the use of the compass for navigation, improved agricultural techniques, the creation of paper money, and advancements in shipbuilding and metallurgy.
What are Song China Innovations?
flourished as vibrant centers of trade and learning, drawing scholars and artisans from distant lands across the silk road.
What are Samarkand & Kashgar?
European political philosophy created by King Louis XVI that kings were the ruler of the state and church.
What is Divine Right of Kings?
The type of trade between North America, Africa, and Europe that traded slaves, firearms, and other resources between the three
What is the Atlantic Trade/Triangle trade?
Rousseau's theory, based on the idea that people can be governed as a group while still retaining their individual rights.
What is the Social Contract Theory?
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
For 700 years, this trade route brought significant wealth to West Africa as well as spread Islam through Africa. Known for Gold or Salt
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade route?
A tax paid by non-Muslims to Muslim rulers in Islamic states. It was a source of revenue for the Muslim state and a protection pact for non-Muslims.
What is the Jizya tax?
Refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A political revolution in Japan in 1868 that restored imperial rule and led to a period of rapid modernization and Westernization
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Name for religions that are blending or combining.
What is syncretic religion?
killed an estimated 25–50 million people, which could have been as much as 50% of Europe's population at the time. It had a profound impact on European history, causing religious, social, and economic upheaval.
What is The Black Death/Bubonic plague?
The main reason for conflict that occurred between the Ottomans and the Safavids
Sunni Shi'a Split
An economic theory and practice that emphasizes a nation's wealth and power through a favorable balance of trade with an economy driven by gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism?
All persons are endowed with natural rights to life, liberty, and property and that rulers who fail to protect those rights may be removed by the people, by force if necessary
The ideas of John Locke?
In Sub-Saharan Africa refers to a social structure where individuals' social and political identities, roles, and allegiances are primarily determined by their familial ties.
What is kin-based society?
The leader of the Mongolian Kingdom beginning 1206. Known as the Great Khan
who is Genghis/Chinggis Kahn?
a practice used by the Ottoman Empire to forcibly recruit children from Christian families in the Balkans as soldiers and bureaucrats
Who are the Devshirme?
A strong agricultural base thanks to the Agricultural Revolution, readily available coal as a fuel source, a stable political system that encouraged innovation, a large colonial market to sell goods to, access to capital for investment in new technologies, and a culture of entrepreneurship and scientific advancement.
What are reasons why Britain was the first to Industrialize?
A German philosopher during the 19th century. He worked primarily in the realm of political philosophy and was a famous advocate for communism. He cowrote The Communist Manifesto and was the author of Das Kapital
Who is Karl Marx?
a social structure that divides a population into a hierarchy of classes based on birth and the ideal of Hinduism.
What is the Hindu Caste System?
The term used for settlements of people away from their homeland. When these people move they bring their cultural practices with them.
What is diaspora or diasporic communities?
The shogunate that unified Japan and also expelled all Christians.
Who are The Tokagawa Shogunate?
a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
A self-educated writer who wrote pamphlets and plays on a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice. In this pamphlet she provides a declaration of the rights of women to parallel the one for men, thus criticizing the deputies for having forgotten women.
Who is Olympe de Gouges or Marie Gouze?