Europeans & the Ming
This governing system of Europe during the 5th through 14th centuries differed from the centralized state of the Ming.
What is feudalism?
This was the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Counter or Catholic Reformation?
These diseases led to the decimation of native groups of the Americas, like the Inca and Aztec.
What are smallpox, measles, or influenza?
This is the second leg of the Atlantic System in which African slaves were transported to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
A time of peace that spread across Asia and promoted economic prosperity.
What is Pax Mongolica?
After this Chinese admiral was retired in 1433, control of trade in the Indian Ocean Network shifted to the Europeans.
Who is Zheng He?
These were corruptions within the Roman Catholic Church that led to Martin Luther writing his 95 Theses.
What are simony or indulgences?
This is considered the first commodity to be exchanged in a global trade network.
What is silver?
These crops were transported with African slaves to the Americas.
What are okra and rice?
Nomadic, Turkic, Muslim forces, like the Egyptian Mamluks and Seljuk Turks, slowly eroded this Islamic empire with their invasions.
What is the Abbasid Dynasty?
The Dutch and British were funded by these privately-owned expeditions into the Indian Ocean Network in order to cut down on the risk by investors.
What are joint-stock companies?
The event that contributed to the questioning of Church doctrine, like the observation of the planets by dudes like Galileo.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This mine in modern day Bolivia was a major source of silver and exploited the labor of Amerindians.
What is Potosi?
This did not just happen in Africa, but was a global impact of the exchange of crops during the Columbian Exchange.
What is an increased population?
The Sui-Tang Dynasty precedes this Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty proceeds it.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This system was used by the Ming in order to appoint well-qualified candidates and their knowledge of Confucianism to their bureaucratic government.
What is a meritocracy?
This Protestant faith was created because King Henry VIII wanted a divorce and the Catholic Church would not support it.
What is Anglicanism or the Church of England?
New ship designs that allowed explorers, like Christopher Columbus, to the cross the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the caravel, fluyt, or carrack?
Political tensions between these African states was a result of an increase of power due to the acquisition of gunpowder weapons from Europeans in return for African slaves.
Who are the Asante or the Kingdom of the Kongo?
Due to the expansion of trade networks between 1200 and 1450, this crop is believed to have been exchanged from Indonesia to East Africa.
What are bananas?
Who is Emperor Yongle?
These Catholic missionaries were sent to places like China and the Americas to recruit more converts to the Catholic Church after the Protestant Reformation.
Who are Jesuits?
These labor systems were instituted by the Europeans and used on Amerindians in exchange for food, shelter, and Christianity.
What are the encomienda, hacienda, or mit'a systems?
Europeans were unable to acquire slaves from the African interior because they were NOT immune to these.
What are tropical diseases?
This great leader of Mali spread word of his riches to the rest of AfroEurasia after he made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
Who is Mansa Musa?