Networks of Exchange
This trade network relied heavily on monsoon winds
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
Idea that rulers receive authority from God
What is divine right?
Nomadic empire that unified much of Eurasia
What is the Mongol Empire?
This technology transformed warfare and allowed states to build large land-based empires after 1450.
What is gunpowder?
The Atlantic system relied on this economic theory
What is mercantilism?
A tax levied on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule.
What is jizya?
A journey taken for religious purposes.
What is a pilgrimage?
This desert trade network linked West Africa to the Mediterranean
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
Religion that spread into West Africa through trade
What is Islam?
Chinese dynasty overthrown by Mongol conquest
What is the Song Dynasty?
The African city known as a center of learning and trade in the Mali Empire.
What is Timbuktu?
Region supplying enslaved labor for the Triangular Trade
What is Africa?
The Chinese philosophical system emphasizing hierarchy, filial piety, and order.
What is Confucianism?
A group of people who settle outside their homeland while maintaining cultural ties.
What is a diaspora?
This Southeast Asian port city controlled a key maritime choke point
What is Malacca?
Byzantine rulers used art like mosaics to do this
What is legitimizing imperial rule?
African empire known for gold and trade security
What is the Mali Empire?
The Muslim traveler known for writing about West Africa in the 1300s.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The fourteenth-century pandemic that dramatically reduced the population of Afro-Eurasia.
What is the Black Death?
A rest stop built along trade routes to provide lodging and supplies for merchants.
What is a caravanserai?
A system of trained officials who manage government administration.
What is a bureaucracy?
This trade network increased cultural diffusion due to Mongol protection
What are the Silk Roads?
This religious movement challenged the authority of the Catholic Church by arguing that Christian practice should be based more directly on scripture rather than church hierarchy.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This Islamic empire used gunpowder weapons and centralized authority to dominate trade routes and capture Constantinople in 1453, strengthening state power.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This empire in Persia relied on gunpowder weapons and enforced Shi’a Islam as the state religion.
What is the Safavid Empire?
The coerced agricultural labor system that peasants in medieval Europe were bound to under feudalism.
What is serfdom?
The Mongol-ruled Chinese dynasty from 1271–1368.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
The system used in China to select government officials based on merit.
What is the civil service exam?
This network explains the spread of Islam across Afro-Eurasia
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
This belief system emerged from cultural blending
What is syncretism?
This empire expanded across South Asia after 1526 by combining military conquest with administrative tolerance of local elites and religions, helping stabilize imperial rule.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This empire expanded into China using a combination of gunpowder weapons and Manchu military organization.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Chinese system that managed relations and trade with neighboring states.
What is the tribute system?
The Ottoman system that recruited Christian boys for state service.
What is the devshirme system?