Unit 1
A Examination Process to determine a person's ability to work for the Song Dynasty, based on their understanding of Buddhism.
The Chinese Civil Service Exam
The trade route connecting East Asia to Europe along the steppe badlands.
The Silk Road
Empires that use the inventions and innovations to expand their Empires.
The Gunpowder Empires
The Portuguese focused on making small outposts to facilitate global trade and building a empire from the revenue.
Trade Post Empire
The primary was in which resources, cultures, ideas, technologies, religions, and languages are exchanged throughout human history.
Trade
A form of Islam that focuses on a personal spiritual approach to worship. Often recruiting missionaries to spread Islam.
Sufism
The leader of the largest land empire in human history.
Genghis Khan
The belief that the King holds total control over his people and government.
Absolutism
The sharing of various types of food and the unknowing spread of disease across the Atlantic Ocean to the "New World"
The Columbian Exchange
A type of plant that provides little to no calories and is explicitly used to sell as a commodity.
Cash Crop
A method of restricting women's feet to promote Buddhist ideas of servitude and submissiveness regarding women.
Foot Binding
A trade network that utilized monsoon winds to facilitate trade along the oceans.
The Indian Ocean Trade Route
Islamic soldiers that were kidnapped as young Christian children and forcibly indoctrinated into a fanatical elite fighting force.
Janissaries
A type of forced labor were people are bought and sold in the same way that livestock are sold at auction.
Chattel Slavery
The event that split the Catholic Church do to grievances based on Church corruption and the selling of indulgences.
The Protestant Reformation
The religions, spiritual, and supernatural belief in the Earth its self and all of its living creatures having their own spirits.
Animism
A disease that spread due to connections established by trade networks resulting in the deaths of over 25 million people.
The Black Death
A great Architectural marvel that utilizes building styles from Islamic, Hindu, and Persian backgrounds. Made out of Marble and used as a tomb for the creator and his wife.
The Taj Mahal
A business that is created by investors contributing capital for the purpose of establishing overseas colonies.
Joint - Stock Companies
This lead to the almost complete destruction of Native Americans between 1492- 1700s.
The spread of disease due to the Columbian Exchange
A trade network famous for its trade in Gold, Salt, and Slaves.
The Trans - Saharan Trade Network.
A crop that can be harvested multiple times a year and provides a abundance of food.
Champa Rice
A system of subjecting other kingdoms in which the other kingdoms give gifts of resources or wealth as a form of taxation for protection and to preserve their antinomy.
The Tribute System
A system used by the Spanish in the Americas to create a hierarchal society based on one's race or mixed race ancestry.
The Casta System
The Era of Human History, prior to the fall of Rome.
The Classical Era