Global Tapestry
(1200-1450)
(1200-1450)
This Mesoamerican empire rose due to miliary conquest, practiced human sacrifice, and utilized a tribute system.
Who are the Aztecs or Mexica?
The introduction of these animals by Muslim merchants transformed the Trans-Saharan trade routes, making them more viable.
What are camels?
Technology that most aided empires like the Ottomans and Russians in their conquests and expansions into nearby territories.
What is gunpowder?
Trans-Atlantic transfer of biological items, including staple crops like potatoes, cash crops like sugarcane, diseases like smallpox, and even humans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is the steam engine?
These people were the most responsible for the spread of Islam into regions like West Africa and Southeast Asia.
Who are merchants?
Empire which revitalized the aging Silk Road, facilitating more trans-Eurasian trade.
Who are the Mongols?
This was used by the Qing Dynasty to ensure that their government officials were educated on Confucian classics and their bureaucracy was efficient.
What is the civil service exam?
This precious commodity most transformed the global economy by becoming an international currency.
What is silver?
Intellectual movement throughout Europe that inspired political revolutions like those in North America and France
What is the Enlightenment?
System of coerced labor used in medieval Europe, in which peasants were bound to the land but not technically owned.
What is serfdom or serfs?
Places where merchants who moved away from their homelands introduced their own cultural practices into the local cultures.
What are merchant diaspora communities?
Sikhism is an example of this type of religious belief, since it blends aspects of both Hinduism and Islam.
What is a syncretic religion or syncretism?
Spanish American social hierarchy based on racial classification which used terms like mestizo, mulatto, and creole.
What is the casta system?
Ideology that led to the unification of states like Italy and Germany as well as independence movements like Balkan states breaking from the Ottoman Empire.
What is nationalism?
The introduction of this variety of food resulted in a rapid increase of East Asian populations, particularly in the Song Dynasty of China.
What is champa rice?
Muslim scholar and interregional traveler known for writing about his travels throughout the Muslim world.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Absolute monarchs like Louis XIV of France and James I of England believed in this idea which used religion to legitimize their political authority.
What is "the divine right of kings?"
Policy in which governments directly control all economics to create a favorable balance of trade and accumulate precious metals.
What is mercantilism?
Economic policy in which governments do not regulate or interfere with trade and businesses.
What is laissez-faire or free-market capitalism?
A trade-based empire of Southeast Asia, heavily influenced by South Asian traditions of Hinduism or Buddhism.
What is Srivijaya, Majapahit, or Khmer?
Roadside rest stops along overland trade routes which facilitated trade and travel.
What are caravanserai?
System in the Ottoman Empire based on training children from Christian families to become janissaries.
What is devshirme?
System of coerced labor used in Spanish American colonies which forced natives to work in mines or plantations.
What is encomienda, repartimiento, or hacienda?
Time period in Japan that included an extremely rapid and successful state-driven plan of modernization and industrialization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?