Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
This belief system, founded by Confucius, emphasized filial piety and social harmony.
What is Confucianism?
This trade route connected East Asia to the Mediterranean and spread goods like silk and spices.
What is the Silk Road?
This empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, dominated the eastern Mediterranean.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This explorer is credited with initiating sustained contact between Europe and the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This document declared independence of the American colonies from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Chinese dynasty used the Grand Canal to support internal trade and stability.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This disease spread along trade routes and killed millions in Afro-Eurasia during the 14th century.
What is the Black Death?
This Chinese dynasty restored Confucian traditions after Mongol rule.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This exchange brought crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This revolution overthrew the monarchy and led to the Reign of Terror.
What is the French Revolution?
This Islamic empire controlled trade routes across North Africa and was known for Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
These large ships used by China during Zheng He’s voyages demonstrated naval power.
What are treasure ships?
This Russian ruler centralized power and declared himself “Tsar.”
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
This labor system involved forced indigenous labor in Spanish colonies.
What is the encomienda system?
This Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This South Asian belief system emphasized caste hierarchy and dharma.
What is Hinduism?
This trade network across the Indian Ocean relied on predictable seasonal wind patterns.
What is the monsoon wind system?
This religious branch dominated Safavid Persia and often conflicted with Sunni neighbors.
What is Shi’a Islam?
This global trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through enslaved labor.
What is the Atlantic slave trade (or Triangular Trade)?
This Latin American leader helped liberate several countries from Spanish rule.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This system in feudal Japan involved powerful landowners and warrior retainers.
What is feudalism (or the daimyo-samurai system)?
This African trade network transported gold and salt across the Sahara Desert.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade network?
This system in Mughal India granted land in exchange for military service.
What is the mansabdari system?
This economic system emphasized exporting more than importing to gain wealth.
What is mercantilism?
This phase of the French Revolution was marked by mass executions under Robespierre.
What is the Reign of Terror?