Unit 1
A Chinese philosophy ensuring that following filial piety & the five relationships would result in a stable government and an orderly society.
What is Confucianism?
What major religion was spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
What is Islam?
It's the general term for the process of rulers taking power from hereditary elites (e.g. nobility) and concentrating it in a centralized bureaucracy controlled directly by the ruler; seen in Gunpowder Empires as well as Europe
What is state centralization?
A technological developments that led to increased European exploration in the 15th century (multiple answers possible)
Compass; Carrack; Caravel; Fluyt; Cartography; Astrolabe; Lateen sail
The process of large segments of the population moving from rural areas to cities
What is urbanization?
Quick-maturing agricultural development that can allow two harvests in one growing season; led to increased populations in Song Dynasty China.
What is champa rice?
Name one of the most prominent products coming from China on the Silk Roads (besides silk)?
What are: Tea, Rice, Gunpowder, Porcelain, or Paper?
It's the branch of Islam that was dominant in the Ottoman empire
What is Sunni Islam?
This disease was most destructive for the indigenous population of the Americas. It caused the "Great Dying."
What is smallpox?
Organizations of workers advocating for the right to bargain with their employer
What are labor unions?
Large Islamic-based library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus on translation of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Preserved knowledge.
What is the House of Wisdom?
Name one maritime technology that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
What are: Stern Rudder, Lateen Sail, Junk, Dhow, Astrolabe?
These landowners collected taxes and ruled over their lands on behalf of the Mughal Empire
What are Zaminders?
The 3 "Gs" that influenced Europeans to explore and colonize Latin America?
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman who is often called the mother of feminism
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
A system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
What is feudalism?
ONE of the empires the Mongols split into after the death of Genghis Khan AND where it was located
What are: Ilkhan Empire (Middle East), Golden Horde (Central Asia), Chagatai Khanate (North of India), and Yuan Dynasty (China)?
It's the name of the religion that emerged from the syncretic fusing of Hinduism and Islam?
What is Sikhism?
The exploitation of colonies (including the extraction of precious metals) by a dominating power is known as this economic policy.
What is mercantilism?
Author of the Communist Manifesto
Who is Karl Marx (bonus: and Friedrich Engels)?
This split in Islam was based on who should rule as rightful caliph after the death of the prophet Muhammad.
What is the Shia-Sunni split?
These communities were established along the trade routes and were made up of merchants who settled in the area in which they did business.
What are diasporic communities?
Elite corps of the Ottoman Empire’s standing army selected from among the Christian boys of the devshirme.
What are Janissaries?
What was the primary reason for Europeans' desire to begin extensive maritime travel?
To trade with Asia more easily (avoid taxes from Gunpowder Empires)
This was written by Simón Bolívar while in exile and was aimed at rich creoles to join the cause of independence from Spain
What is the Letter from Jamaica?