The Global Tapestry
Networks of Exchange
Land-Based Empires
Transoceanic
Connections
Connections
Revolutions
Writing a DBQ
100
One of two countries in East Asia that was strongly influenced by Chinese culture in the time period between 700 and 1300 CE
What is Japan or What is Korea
100
The Silk Roads connected East Asia and Central Asia to this region in Western Asia.
What is the Middle East?
100
This gunpowder empire dominated Persia from the 1500s to the early 1700s.
What was the Safavid Empire?
100
This country sponsored the voyage that launched the Columbian Exchange.
What is Spain?
100
This document was created to indicate the desire of people in North America to separate from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
The total number of documents available in a DBQ
What is seven?
200
Al-Andalus included this modern European country until the Reconquista returned it to Christian rule.
What is Spain? or What is Portugal?
200
This king of Mali made use of the Trans-Saharan trade network when he traveled to Mecca in 1324
Who was Mansa Musa?
200
The practice of devshirme required some Christian communities in Eastern Europe to turn over their boys to the Ottoman government to become members of this military group trained to fight in support of the Sultan.
Who were the Janissaries?
200
Scientists who study the impacts of epidemics believe that this disease killed the most Native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s.
What is smallpox?
200
John Locke maintained that government had a responsibility to protect these or face revolution.
What are "natural rights?"
200
This point is generally earned in the introduction paragraph but may be earned later in the essay as well.
What is the thesis point?
or
What is the contextualization point?
300
This instrument was greatly improved in the Islamic world in the period between 800 and 1100 and was later used by European navigators to determine their latitude.
What is the astrolabe?
300
This syncretic language is often used as the identifying feature for Kilwa, Mombasa, Zanzibar, and other commercial city states along the coast of East Africa.
What is Swahili?
or
What are the Swahili city states?
300
The construction of the Taj Mahal was intended to demonstrate the legitimacy of this dynasty.
What was the Mughal Dynasty?
300
This queen of Ndongo fought against Portuguese colonization in Central Africa from 1626 - 1656.
Who was Queen Nzinga?
300
Maroons created communities of runaway slaves on in this French colony known for its incredibly profitable sugar production.
What is Saint Domingue?
300
The minimum number of documents you should address in a body paragraph
What is two?
400
In 1054 the European Church split into these two denominations over a disagreement between Christian leaders in Constantinople and Rome.
What are Catholic and Orthodox?
400
This innovation helped to promote more trade in the Trans-Saharan trade network.
What is a camel saddle?
400
Name given to the city of Constantinople after the Ottomans conquered it in 1453
What is Istanbul?
400
A name used by European explorers for the "spice islands" in Southeast Asia where cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg were grown for export across Afro-Eurasia from 300 - 1600
What is "the Indies?"
or
What is "the Moluccas?"
400
One of the two priests who started revolts against Spanish control of Mexico in the early 1800s
Who was Father Hidalgo?
or
Who was Father Morelos?
400
This is the primary purpose of writing a conclusion paragraph. (Need precise word)
What is to "REFORMULATE your thesis."
definition of reformulate:
to write something in a different way
500
This center for the study of science, philosophy, history, and mathematics was located in Baghdad from the late 700s to the mid 1200s.
What is the House of Wisdom?
500
This Chinese admiral led a fleet of more than 300 ships on several voyages to Southeast Asa and through the Indian Ocean in the early 1400s.
Who was Zheng He?
500
Term used to refer to a bureaucrat who collected taxes and enforced the laws under the rule of these emperors.
What is a Zamindar?
500
These Spanish ships carried massive amounts of silver from the Americas to Asia from 1565 to 1815.
What were the Manilla galleons?
500
Early feminist who was executed during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
Who was Olympe de Gouges?
500
The number of successful sourcing explanations needed to earn consideration for the complexity point
What is four?