Empires & Governments
This Chinese dynasty implemented the civil service exam to select officials.
Song Dynasty
This empire’s protection of trade routes created the “Pax Mongolica.”
Mongol Empire
The religion that spread along the Silk Roads and influenced China, Korea, and Japan.
Buddhism
The system of global crop, livestock, and disease exchange after 1492 is called?
Columbian Exchange
What enabled the Spanish to conquer the Aztec and Inca empires?
Alliances with Indegenous enemies of those empires
The Inca emperor was considered both a political and this kind of leader.
relgious
The Indian Ocean trade network relied heavily on these seasonal winds.
Monsoons
This architectural marvel was built as a tomb for Mumtaz Mahal in the Mughal Empire.
Taj Mahal
This technological invention helped European ships navigate open seas.
Compass
Why did coerced labor sustems intensify in the Americas?
Shortage of Indegenous labor due to disease
The Ottoman Empire’s elite infantry soldiers, taken from Christian communities, were called?
Janissaries
The most valuable export of the Swahili Coast city-states.
Ivory, gold, and slaves
Who were the Jannissaries
An elite infantry force of the Ottoman Empire (little boys)
What epidemic killed large portions of the Indigenous population of the Americas after 1492?
smallpox
The silver trade linked these three regions in the first truly global economy.
Asia, Europe, Americas
The Safavid Empire was primarily known for adhering to this branch of Islam.
Shi'a
What system in the Americas replaced the Indigenous labor force after population declines?
Encomienda system
The practice of recording numbers and information with knots instead of writing was used by this empire.
Inca
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that toppled the Aztec Empire.
Hernan Cortes
This philosophical movement emphasized reason and inspired political revolutions in Europe and Latin America.
Enlightment
This West African kingdom controlled gold trade and was famous for Mansa Musa.
Mali
European states used these companies to pool capital for overseas trade.
Joint-stock companies
This syncretic religion combined elements of Islam and local African traditions.
Sikhism
This Portuguese explorer’s voyages helped establish a sea route to India.
Vasco De Gama
This Caribbean colony had a successful slave revolt that inspired other independence movements
Haiti