Chinese Civil Service Exam
What was the test officials had to take to become part of the government?
Silk, Gold, Spices, Horses, Porcelain, Iron, Tortoise Shells, etc.
What are goods that were traded on the networks of exchange?
Technology that allowed land-based empires to expand.
What is gunpowder?
The biological exchange between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas between 1450 and 1750
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Survival of the fittest applies to race
What is social darwinism?
Revolt against the British based on unfair taxation without representation
What was the American Revolution?
2 States that developed in the Americas between 1200 and 1450
What are the ____ and ____ ?
Aztecs/Mexica
Inca
Maya
Cahokia
Pueblo
3 networks of exchange before 1450
What are the Silk Road, Trans-Sahara, and Indian Ocean trade routes?
System where Christian boys were taken from their villages, converted, and trained into loyal officials in the Ottoman Empire
What is devshirme?
Economic policies centered around a favorable balance of trade (before 1800)
What is mercantilism?
Sepoy rebellion of 1857
What was the major Indian revolt against British rule called?
shifted economies from agrarian, handicraft-based systems to machine-driven production
Political system based on exchanging service/labor for loyalty/land
What is feudalism?
Facilitated the spread of the black death
What is the Silk Road?
OR
Who were the Mongols?
An important tool for maintaining legitimacy of empires
What is _____?
Religion
Art
Historians
2 examples of challenges to state power between 1450 and 1750
What were ___ and ___?
Maroon societies, Slave revolts, Maratha-Mughal Conflict, Cossack Revolts, Metacom's War, the Fronde, Pueblo revolt, etc...
When Britain invaded China to force China to keep buying drugs
What were the Opium Wars?
Revolution against Aristocrats within Europe that was marked by extreme violence
What was the French Revolution?
African state(s) that arose between 1200 and 1450
What is Mali/Mansa Musa?
What is the Swahili Coast?
What are the Hausa Kingdoms?
3 innovations that enabled travel on the networks of exchange before 1450
What are:
compass, caravanserai, flying cash/paper money, camel saddle, banking houses, lateen sail (among other examples)
when many European Christians broke away from the Catholic church over allegations of corruption
What was the Protestant Reformation?
What was the system under which Spanish conquistadors were given an allotment of people to use to extract resources from newly conquered lands in the Americas?
Encomienda System
Resources and the process that drove imperialism in the 1800s
What is the industrial revolution and diamonds, rubber, palm oil, guano, copper, opium, etc.?
Philosophical movement that inspired the Atlantic Revolutions
What was the enlightenment?
Philosophy based on merit and filial piety
What is Confucianism?
Mystics/missionaries who spread Islam along networks of exchange
Who are Sufis?
What are Sufis?
How the Mughals handled religious diversity in their empire
What is tolerance, followed by repression?
2 technological innovations that enabled European exploration.
What is ___?
Islamic cartography, Compass (Chinese), Lateen sail, astrolabe, new type of rudder, astronomical chart, new kinds of ship (caravel, carrack, fluyt)
The center of an empire where it was managed and where people would migrate to after decolonization.
What is a metropole?
What is London/Paris?
The most successful slave revolt in history
What was the Haitian revolution?
The religion behind large temples like Angkor Wat in Southeast Asia.
What is Buddhism?
Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo
Who were travelers on the networks of exchange?
The 2 Gunpowder empires that had a long-lasting rivalry over religious differences
What were the Ottoman and Safavid Empires?
What was the Portuguese Empire?
When empires economically dominate smaller countries without conquering the territory politically
What is economic imperialism?
What are spheres of influence?
One enlightenment philosopher and the theory they developed
John Locke - Life, Liberty, Property/right to rebel
Montesquieu - Separation of Powers
Wollstonecraft - Women's equality
Rousseau - Social Contract