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HIPPO
100
This Chinese philosophy emphasized hierarchy, filial piety, and social harmony.
What is Confucianism?
100
The shared language of scholarship and religion across much of the Islamic world.
What is Arabic?
100
This belief system, dominant in India, is closely tied to the caste system.
What is Hinduism?
100
This Andean empire used a labor system called the mit’a.
What is the Inca Empire?
100
This economic system structured medieval European society around land ownership and obligations.
What is feudalism?
100
This network connected East Asia to the Mediterranean.
What is the Silk Roads?
100
This belief system spread along the Silk Roads into China.
What is Buddhism?
100
This part of HIPP asks: What is happening at the time the document was created?
What is Historical Context?
200
This dynasty restored Chinese rule after the Mongols and promoted Confucian ideals.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
200
This Islamic law is derived from the Quran and Hadith.
What is Sharia law?
200
This religion spread widely through trade routes and missionary activity from India.
What is Buddhism?
200
This Mesoamerican civilization built chinampas for agriculture and was conquered by Hernan Cortes in 1521.
What is the Aztec Empire?
200
This institution held significant political and social power in medieval Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
200
This trade network relied on monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
200
This Chinese invention improved maritime navigation.
What is the compass?
200
This sourcing skill focuses on who created the document and their position in society.
What is Point of View?
300
This system selected government officials based on merit and knowledge of Confucian texts.
What is the civil service examination system?
300
This empire facilitated trade and cultural exchange across North Africa.
What is the Mali Empire?
300
This group of traders helped spread Islam to Southeast Asia.
Who are Muslim merchants?
300
This West African trade good was extremely valuable and traded for salt.
What is gold?
300
This series of religious wars aimed to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control.
What are the Crusades?
300
This desert trade route connected West Africa to North Africa.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade network?
300
This city became a major Islamic learning center in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
300
This element of HIPP asks why the document was created in the first place.
What is Purpose?
400
Foot binding in China is an example of this type of social system.
Patriarchy
400
This ruler of Mali is famous for his extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
400
This powerful maritime empire controlled trade through the Strait of Malacca.
What is Srivijaya?
400
This African social structure was based on lineage and kinship groups.
What are clan-based societies?
400
This document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
This caravan animal made travel across the Sahara possible.
What is the camel?
400
This period of Mongol domination promoted trade and communication across Eurasia.
What is Pax Mongolica?
400
“I, Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali, embarked on a pilgrimage to Mecca with great wealth and generosity.”
Using sourcing, what is ONE possible purpose of this statement?
What is to demonstrate wealth and legitimacy / promote Mali’s power and Islamic devotion?
500
This technological innovation from Song China increased agricultural production.
What is Champa rice?
500
This process explains how Islam spread through trade, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia.
What is cultural diffusion through trade networks?
500
This later empire dominated Southeast Asian trade after Srivijaya declined.
What is Majapahit?
500
This system of knotted cords was used by the Inca to keep records.
What is the quipu?
500
This economic revival in Europe after 1200 led to increased trade and the growth of towns.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
500
This disease spread along trade routes and devastated Afro-Eurasia.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
500
This social structure in India organized people by occupation and status.
What is the caste system?
500
Stimulus:
"A European Christian chronicler describes the Crusades as a holy mission to reclaim sacred land."
Using sourcing, how might the author’s point of view affect this account?
What is bias in favor of Christians / portraying Crusades as justified or holy?
600
“Filial piety and respect for hierarchy are the foundation of order in both the family and the state.”
This document reflects the influence of which philosophy on Chinese governance?
What is Confucianism?
600
This trade network helped spread Islam into West Africa.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade network?
600
“Merchants who followed the teachings of the Prophet established communities in port cities and intermarried with local populations.”
This passage best explains the spread of which religion to Southeast Asia?
What is Islam?
600
This agricultural technique was used by which empire to adapt to its environment?
What is the Inca Empire?
600
The invention of this machine greatly increased the number of literate people, indirectly leading to the Renaissance and later Scientific Revolution.
What is the Guttenberg Printing Press?
600
“Traders relied on predictable seasonal wind patterns to travel across the Indian Ocean.”
These winds made long-distance maritime trade possible.
What are the monsoon winds?
600
This device helped travellers to find which line of the Earth's latitude they were on, making long-distance sea travel much safer.
What is the astrolabe?
600
Stimulus:
“A Muslim merchant in the Indian Ocean describes trade cities as peaceful and prosperous centers of exchange.”
Using HIPP, explain how the author’s situation influences this perspective.
What is as a merchant, he benefits from trade and stability, so he portrays trade networks positively?