Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Dynasty of the Muslim empire of the caliphate that followed the Umayyad Caliphate; destroyed by the Mongol invasion in 1258.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
What are caravanserai?
The protestant church created by King Henry VIII of England.
What is the Anglican Church?
the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus' voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
There are this many multiple choice questions on the AP Exam
What is 55?
a land system in which a king owned all the land and granted tracts to nobles in exchange for military loyalty, and nobles granted parts of their land to vassals or serfs who worked the land
What is Feudalism?
Powerful and long-lasting empire in what is modern-day Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and southern Vietnam.
In the Ottoman Empire, a system (literally collection) of training talented children to be administrators or members of the sultan's harem; originally meritocratic, by the seventeenth century it had degenerated into a hereditary caste.
What is the Devshirme System?
Businesses that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks and profits among many investors.
What are Joint-Stock Companies?
What is 40 minutes?
the exam system that granted Chinese officials their positions
What is a meritocracy (also accepting Civil Service Exam)?
the period of Mongolian peace between the 13th and 14th century
What is the Pax Mongolica?
Name the 3 Empires that relied on gunpowder and firearms to expand their territory.
What are the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires?
European government policies of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
The minimum number of sources you need to analyze to get the second evidence point on the DBQ
What is four documents?
a seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia which affected trade routes
What are monsoons?
brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 to 1337; displayed Mali's wealth during an extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca
Who is Mansa Musa?
Ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name.
Who are the Manchus?
1494 Treaty in which Spain and Portugal divided the Americas between them.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
What is 6?
the revival of Confucian teachings during the Tang and Song dynasties and a subsequent synthesis of Confucianism with aspects of Buddhism and Daoism.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
A Muslim admiral, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of seven great voyages that took his many ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Who is Zheng He?
Developed from Hinduism and may have been influenced by the Islamic mysticism known as Sufism.
What is Sikhism?
A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies that provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians.
What is the Encomienda System?
The possible time periods for the 3 LEQ prompts.
What are 1200-1450, 1450-1700, and 1750 to present?