Unit 1 -
The Global Tapestry
Unit 2 -
Networks of Exchange
Unit 3 -
Land Based Empires
Unit 4 -
Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5 -
Revolutions 1750-1900
100

Name 3 contributions of Song China

Gunpowder

compass

Grand Canal

Champa Rice

printing press

paper money

porcelain

neo confucian philosophy

100

This luxury good symbolized wealth and was a key item traded along the Silk Roads from China to Europe.

Silk
100

These elite infantry units of the Ottoman Empire were recruited through the devshirme system and became a powerful military and political force.

Janissaries

100

Name one of the types of ships used by Europeans to break into the Indian Ocean Trade

Caravel, Carrack, Fluyt

100

This French philosopher's work The Social Contract argued that legitimate political authority rests on the "general will" of the people and the concept of popular sovereignty.

Rousseau

200

How did Buddhism arrive in China?

Silk Road Trading

200

These seasonal winds helped merchants sail safely and predictably across the Indian Ocean, linking East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Monsoon winds

200

This architectural achievement built by Shah Jahan in the Mughal Empire demonstrates the empire’s wealth, Persian influence, and use of monumental architecture for legitimacy.

Taj Mahal
200

Though Spain and Britain set up major colonial empires later, Portugal and the Dutch instead set up this type of empire.

Trading Post Empire

200

This British inventor is credited with developing the steam engine that became a driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, significantly improving transportation and industry.

James Watt

300

Describe the House of Wisdom

preservation, translation, advancement of greek, persian, and indian texts and learning in math, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, eventually leading to the renaissance in Europe 

300

This valuable resource from West Africa was traded for salt from the Sahara and helped empires like Mali become rich and powerful.

Gold

300

This term describes how rulers like Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Tokugawa Ieyasu centralized authority by weakening the power of regional elites or nobility.

absolutism

300

The Columbian Exchange facilitated the exchange of many things from the old and new worlds.  Name 2 from each.


300

This leader of the Haitian Revolution was instrumental in overthrowing French colonial rule and establishing the first independent black republic in the Americas.

Toussaint L’Ouverture

400

Give an example of the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires power 

Mayan - Step Pyramids like Chichen Itza

Incan - Roads and Terraforming

Aztec - Tenochtitlan 

400

This Moroccan traveler visited much of the Islamic world, documenting the people and places he encountered in his famous travel journal.

Ibn Battuta

400

This 16th-century reformer’s 95 Theses criticized the Catholic Church’s sale of...
Who and What

Martin Luther

Indulgences and Offices (simony)

400

This nation and dynasty were responsible for severely limiting the trade and influence of Europeans on their shores. 

Tokugawa Japan

400

This Scottish philosopher is known as the father of modern economics, and his work The Wealth of Nations laid the foundations for the theory of free market capitalism and the concept of the "invisible hand."

Adam Smith

500

This southern African city was known for its massive stone structures and control of gold trade, while this West African empire grew wealthy from controlling trans-Saharan trade routes and saw rulers like Mansa Musa.

Great Zimbabwe and Mali Empire

500

To support growing long-distance trade, this financial innovation, first developed in China and later used across the Silk Roads, allowed merchants to avoid carrying large amounts of metal currency.

Flying cash

500

Name the gunpowder empires of the Islamic World

Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals
500

These communities, formed by escaped slaves in the Americas, resisted colonial forces and often established independent societies in regions like Jamaica, Suriname, and Brazil.

Maroon communities

500

Explain the difference between Socialism and Communism

Socialism: Advocates for government control of key industries while allowing some private ownership. It aims to reduce inequality through redistribution of wealth.

Communism: Seeks to abolish private property and class distinctions entirely, with all property and resources collectively owned by the people.

In short: Socialism allows some private ownership; Communism eliminates it.

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