Humans and the Environment
The Mississippian people were noted for creating these.
What were giant mounds.
A mystical, syncretic branch of Islam that helped the religion become more accessible.
What is sufism?
The name of the term referring to the period of relative peace during Mongolian rule.
An economic theory that advocates for a positive balance of trade, where exports exceed imports.
What is mercantilism?
A group of Japanese military personnel, operates underneath the Daimyo and Shoguns.
What are the samurai?
This development allowed Land-Based Empires to assert political control.
What is gunpowder?
This disease was detrimental to the population of the Americas. It caused the "Great Dying."
What was smallpox?
In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one’s parents and ancestors
What is Filial Piety?
A Chinese system that expanded education and political opportunities to lower class men.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
A European system that provides economic self-sufficiency and defense. Many serfs spend their entire lives on these.
What are manors / the manorial system?
This person traveled all through Africa and Asia and catalogued his travels for the Muslim empires.
Who was Ibn Battuta?
What are/is lateen sails, the rudder, the astrolabe, or knowledge of monsoon winds.
The movement of food, plants, diseases, and people between the hemispheres following European contact in the New World.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
A movement that was initiated by Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
A special tax non-Muslims pay in the Islamic empires, in exchange for relative religious freedom.
What is the jizya?
A system based on a grant of land made to a Spanish settler in the Americas & right to use local indigenous peoples as coerced laborers (generally in "exchange" for protection and culture)
What was the encomienda system?
The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of European origin born in the Americas.
What are creoles?
Inns on the Silk Road that led to further trade along the Silk Road.
What are caravanserai?
The right to buy or sell a person viewed as property; the form of slavery utilized in the Americas
What is Chattel Slavery?
Belief in nature spirits, belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events have a spirit and life
What is animism?
A European system of exchanges of land for loyalty.
What is feudalism?
This Muslim city-state grew powerful because of revenue from trade rather than agricultural or manufacturing production, by charging each boat a tax to pass through the strait
What is Malacca?
The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland
What is diaspora?
As a result of long- distance trade, coin money quickly was replaced by this.
What is flying cash/money?
Highly fatal disease transmitted by fleas throughout the Mediterranean world killing 30-50% of Europe’s population
What is the bubonic plague?
An example of how Buddhism was impacted by syncretism.
What is Zen Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, etc.
A government that practiced seclusion/isolationism by limiting their peoples' contact with foreigners during the period 1450-1750.
What is Ming China or Tokugawa Japan?
Who were Zamindars?
An oasis city along the Silk Road that become a bustling hub for trade and cultural exchange.
Where is Samarkand OR Kashgar?
The center of learning in Baghdad during the Abbasid Empire
What is the House of Wisdom?