The Global Tapestry
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Historical Thinking Skills
100

This religion emerged in the sixth century BCE in South Asia. Neither polytheistic nor monotheistic, it emphasized personal pathways to enlightenment, rather than gods and the authority of a priestly class.

Buddhism

100

This crop, native to Peru, provided Western and Northern Europe with a new source of calories, feeding European people and the armies that extended European empires into Africa and Asia.

Potato

100

This publication by Diderot helped introduce new ideas into French society and arguably paved the way for the French Revolution.

Diderot's 1750 Encyclopedia

100

Military rulers of Japan who established a "closed door" policy, which slowed Japan's technological development.

Tokugawa Shogunate

100

TEA is the acronym for the process you should use in answering SAQs. What do the letters in TEA stand for?

Topic, Evidence, and Analysis

200

This philosophical system originated in China and emphasized the importance of social hierarchies and loyalty, including relationships between ruler and subject. It argued that these relationships reflected the cosmic relationship between Heaven and Earth.

Confucianism

200

More profitable than any other during the early years of the Columbian Exchange, this crop was cultivated in slavery-based plantation complexes by the Portuguese in Brazil, the Spanish in Cuba, the British in Jamaica, and the French in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti).

Sugar

200

Primary author of the US Constitution who used Enlightenment ideals to frame the structure of government.

James Madison

200

This New York garment factory burst into flames in 1911, thus becoming the site of the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

200

This historical reasoning process involves describing similarities and/or differences between different historical developments or processes.

Comparison

300

This city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Constantinople

300

This phenomenon occurs when different belief systems from two or more places blend to create something new, as was the case after 1500 when the Spanish attempted to convert Mexico City's indigenous population to Christianity.

Religious syncretism

300

Revolutionary leader, inspired by Enlightenment thought; considered a founding father of many Latin American nations.

Simon Bolivar

300

Coined by Karl Marx, this term refers to the entire class of wage workers who can only earn money by selling their labor.

The Proletariat

300

This historical reasoning process involves describing the causes and/or effects of a specific historical development or process.

Causation

400

This West African ruler is known for being so wealthy that he destabilized the economy of Egypt by spending great amounts of gold there while on his way to Mecca.

Mansa Musa

400

This Native American people arguably established a terrestrial empire in southwestern North America through their mastery of horses.

The Comanche

400

The focusing of citizens' loyalty on the "nation"; played a major role in world conflicts & independence movements.

Nationalism

400

George Macartney traveled as ambassador to this powerful state in an effort to open trade.

China

400

This historical reasoning process describes patterns of sameness or transformation over time.

Continuity and Change

500

This commodity was harvested in England, processed in Flanders, and served as the foundation of England's medieval economy.

Wool

500

The mining of this metal greatly enhanced European access to Chinese markets after 1500.

Silver

500

This West African leader turned to Islam as a means of resisting slavery. He rallied many other vulnerable communities and launched a revolution that created one of the largest states in West African history. Known as the Sokoto Caliphate, it existed between 1804 and 1903.

Uthman dan Fodio

500

A French mathematician and physicist, she was one of the few women given access to scientific communities during the Enlightenment and became famous for her French translation of and commentary on Newton’s work.

Émilie du Châtelet

500

On LEQs, this historical thinking point is best earned in your introduction prior to stating your thesis.

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