Trade
The 5 major trade routes of the world circa 15th century.
What are Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, Trans-Saharan, Trans-Arabian, and Silk Road?
The Chinese Dynasty that pioneered the invention of gunpowder.
The name of the plague that ravaged Europe from 1347-1348 which killed about 1/3 of the population, per usual.
What is the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)?
The Columbian exchange brought Plants, Animals, Technology and Disease to and from the New and Old Worlds. This disease is the deadliest in world history and decimated Native American societies.
What is smallpox?
The names of the two main trading coasts in Africa, one in the Northwest, one in the Southeast.
What are the Gold Coast and the Swahili Coast?
This precious good was the key for Western Europe, mainly Spain, to be able to trade with China in the 16th and 17th century when their borders were primarily closed.
What is silver?
The second major Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East, dramatically taken by the Mongols in dramatic fashion after the Battle of Baghdad went to the Mongols in 1258.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
The practice of peasants attaching them and their families to a certain piece of land for life, this practice was last abolished in Europe in 1861 in this country.
What is serfdom? What is Russia?
Sugarcane is regarded as one of the most notable cash crops in world history, and this colony on the island of Hispaniola was discovered to be a perfect location to grow it.
What is Haiti?
This man was the King of Mali at the Empire's peak, and is considered the richest man in history. His conversion to Islam and hajj to Mecca allowed the religion to spread across North Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The Atlantic slave trade sent African folk religions to the Americans, where African dances, rituals, and animism blended with Christianity from the European colonizers in a process called this.
The two most well-known Mauryan Dynasty (c. 3rd century BCE) emperors of India, the later one converted to Buddhism after a bloody battle.
Who are Chandragupta Maurya and Asoka (the buddhist)?
Absolutism ran amok among European monarchies throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. These 2 men are regarded as THE absolute monarchs of that era.
Who are Henry VIII and Louis XIV?
The Aztecs built this city fully on a man-made island. It is now Mexico City and is considered one of the greatest technological advancements in history.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The Marco Polo of Africa, this man, from 1325-1349, traveled across Afro-Eurasia and kept a detailed journal of his experiences.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The Portuguese were the dominant player in the Indian Ocean trade around the 15th and early 16th centuries, when they had access to these 4 key trading cities.
What are Goa, Calicut, Malacca, and Macao?
What is Siddhartha Gautama?
The Protestant Reformation, led by Martin Luther, also spurred this man and his religious beliefs; his followers went on to be called Huguenots.
Who is John Calvin? (Calvinism)
The Romans had one of the most complex road systems to navigate across their vast empire. This road system is comparable to this empire in the Andes Mountains, who built 25,000 miles of roads
Who are the Inca?
This Spanish man conceptualized the idea of the Alternate Labor source, commencing the largest emigration in human history from Africa to the Americas.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
West Africa had 3 trading kingdoms that spanned a period of over 500 years, who all controlled the gold and salt trade, which were named...
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
The caste system has existed in India for millennia and has been a key facet in regulating the behaviors of civilians. Name the 4 layers of the caste system.
What are the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras?
Following this man's take over of the Holy Land in the 2nd Crusade, Richard the Conqueror fought him in the 3rd Crusade in 1189, and they were able to negotiate, Christians were granted the rite of passage.
Who is Saladin?
The island nation Columbus first arrived at after his first voyage in 1492, which he mistakenly confused for India.
What is Cuba?
What are yams and manioc?