Unit 0 - Unit 1 (Early Civilizations)
East Roman Empire built the Capital Constantinople
Byzantine Empire
What luxury good was transported from Asia to Europe?
Silk
What religion were the 3 main Gunpowder Empires?
Islam
Which European Country was first to begin exploration first?
Portugal
What year was I born
1996
First Written Law code out of Mesopatamia
Hammurabis Code
What were the 3 major trade routes in Afro-Eurasia from 1250-1450?
Silk Road, Indian Ocean, Trans-Saharan
Where did the Mughal Empire establish themselves?
India
Define the Columbian Exchange.
Trade between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
What is my Fiancee's name?
Gretchen
Which religion supported the establishment of the Caste System?
Hinduism
What made the long journey across the Sahara desert possible?
Camel Saddles
How were the Safavid's different from other Islamic Empires?
They were Shia Islam
How was Western Europe different from other empires between 1450-1750.
Maritime Expansion (Sea-Based Empire)
What is the acronym for an answer to a SAQ Question
What early civilization based their authority on the Mandate of Heaven?
China
Ships sailing along the Indian Ocean trade routes were dependent on what natural phenomenon?
Monsoon Winds
Name two groups of outsiders that ruled over China.
Yuan (Mongols) and Qing (Manchu)
The forced labor system established by the Spanish the Spanish America.
Encomienda System/ Hacienda System
Everyone gets a guess:
How many readings have I assigned this semester
29
School of thought in China
Confucianism
A center for learning in the Abbasid Caliphate that lead to the diffusion of knowledge along trade routes
House of Wisdom- Baghdad
How did monumental Architecture/ life size portraits of emperors help establish land based empires between 1450-1750.
by showing wealth
According to the theory of Mercantilism, what was the primary goal of a nation.
To acquire as much gold and silver as possible
What is ALL included in a intro paragraph
Context, restate, Thesis