Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
The spread of Islam in Southeast Asia was primarily due to this form of contact.
What is trade (merchant activity)?
The Silk Roads connected China with this region for luxury goods like spices and gems.
What is South Asia/India?
This Chinese dynasty reestablished Han-style Confucian bureaucracy after Mongol rule.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This crop from the Americas revolutionized the European diet.
What is the potato? (or maize)
This 18th-century intellectual movement inspired revolutions around the world.
What is the Enlightenment?
This Islamic empire, known for its use of devshirme and janissaries, ruled much of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This major continuity of Afro-Eurasian trade was facilitated by the expansion of the Mongol Empire.
What is increased safety and stability along trade routes?
This empire was ruled by Akbar and known for religious tolerance and art blending Persian, Indian, and Islamic styles.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This was a deadly biological consequence of European conquest in the Americas.
What is the spread of smallpox (or disease in general)?
This 1791 revolt was the first successful slave rebellion that led to independence.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
In the Song Dynasty, this system emphasized Confucian values and used civil service exams to maintain bureaucratic control.
What is the imperial examination system?
This maritime innovation helped merchants navigate the India Ocean.
What is the lateen sail (or dhow)?
This Islamic innovation helped states centralize power through military expansion.
What are gunpowder weapons?
This economic theory emphasized colonies providing wealth to their mother country.
What is Mercantilisim?
This revolutionary document from France that asserted equality and rights of man.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
These powerful Islamic states of West Africa flourished through control of trans-Saharan trade routes.
What are the Mali and Songhai?
This city in Mali was a major intellectual and commercial hub due to the trans-Saharan trade.
What is Timbuktu?
These Islamic empires are sometimes referred to as the "Gunpowder Empires."
What are the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires?
This labor system replaced the encomienda and was based on a coerced labor in silver mines.
What is the Mita system?
This nationalist leader fought for independence across South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This Buddhist state in Southeast Asia thrived through trade and monumental architecture like Angkor Wat.
What is the Khmer Empire?
The diffusion of this religion along trade routes into East Africa led to syncretic cultural forms.
What is Islam?
The use of monumental architecture, like Versailles, was a way for rulers to do this.
What is legitimize their power?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was part of this larger economic network.
What is the Atlantic triangular trade (or Columbian Exchange)?
This labor revolt in British India occurred as resistance to colonial military practices.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?