1200-1450
An agricultural development that boosted the population of Song China and allowed them to become a powerful dynasty
What is champa rice?
The transition from agriculture and making things by hand to mass production in factories
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Disease that killed 1/2 of Europe's population in the 14th century
What is the Black Death/ Bubonic Plague/ Black Plague?
Number of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) on the exam
What is 55?
The main political system of Medieval Europe centered around exchanging loyalty for land
What is Feudalism/ The Feudal System?
One example of a land-based empire
What is the Ottomans/ Mughals/ Safavids/ Ming Dynasty/ Russia
The process by which European countries divided up control over Africa between themselves
What is the Scramble for Africa/ Berlin Conference?
German monk who started the Protestant Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
Sets up the background info the reader needs before they can read your essay
What is contextualization?
2 major empires of the Americas, both would later be conquered by the Spanish
What are the Aztec and Inca?
One example of coerced/ forced labor used by maritime empires
What is chattel slavery/ mit'a system/ hacienda and encomienda systems
One difference between the French and American Revolutions
Answers will vary up to Ms. Wedel's discretion
What is Historical Situation, Intended Audience, Purpose, and Point of View?
The 3 major trade routes of this period.
What are the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean Trade, and the Trans-Saharan Trade?
Answers will vary
One reform movement that arose in response to the Industrial Revolution
What are Labor Unions/ Expansion of Suffrage (voting rights)/ Child Labor Laws/ Communism/ Socialism/ Women's Rights/ Urban Reform
A mixing of religions/ belief systems (examples: sufism, Swahili, vodun)
What is syncretism?
How many SAQs you have to write on the exam
What is 3
A main feature of Confucianism that emphasized hierarchies like the father being the head of the household.
What is filial piety?
One way rulers of land-based or maritime empires legitimized their power.
Answers will vary- architecture examples (Versailles, Taj Mahal)/ ottoman janissaries, devshirme system/ joint stock companies/ gunpowder/ centralized power (absolutism)/ civil service/ zamindars/ shogun
One example of how governments responded to Industrialization in Asia
Answers will vary: Ottoman tanzimat reforms/ Chinese self-strengthening/ Japanese Meiji Restoration
The idea that people give up some of their natural rights to the government in exchange for protection, popularized by Enlightenment philosophes like John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
What is the social contract?
A historically defensible claim that responds to the prompt and establishes a line of reasoning
What is a thesis statement?