Land Based Empires: Europe
Land Based Empires: Ottoman
Land Based Empires: Safavid
Land Based Empires: Mughal
Land Based Empires: East Asia
Maritime Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Maritime Empires: Latin America
Maritime Empires: Asia
Maritime Empires: Europe
100
What invention (borrowed from the Chinese) allowed rulers like the Russian tsar, Ivan the Terrible to expand the Russian Empire east?
What is gunpowder?
100
Which empire was the Ottoman Empire? (color)
The red empire
Important because of the intersection of the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
100
Which empire was the Safavid Empire?
The green one with the sun & lion,
(landlocked & surrounded by other powerful empires)
100
Which empire was the Mughal Empire?
The green with the crescent moon.
100
Which empire was the Qing Empire?
The yellow one.
100
What year did the Old World and New World meet?
What is 1492?
100
How did the Columbian Exchange massively decrease the population in the New World?
What is the spread of disease (mostly from Europe to the Americas)?
100
What commodity most contributed to the import of enslaved Africans to the New World?
What is sugar?
100
What commodity were European traders primarily interested in Southeast Asia?
What are spices?
100
What was the title of the Spaniards who colonized the New World?
What is conquistador (Cortes conquered Mexica and Pizarro conquered Incas)?
200
Martin Luther want to split from the Roman Catholic Church. What was this split called?
The (Protestant) Reformation.
200
What branch of Islam was dominant in the Ottoman Empire?
What is Sunni Islam?
200
What branch of Islam was dominant in the Safavid Empire?
What is Shia Islam?
200
TRUE or FALSE: After Akbar's rise to power, the caste system in India was finally abolished.
What is FALSE?
200
What is ONE economic similarity between the Chinese dynasties of this era and the Mexica (Aztecs)?
What is the tribute system?
200
What are TWO technological developments that led to increased exploration?
What is the compass, carrack, caravel, fluyt, cartography, astrolabe, lateen sail, sternpost rudder?
200
How did the Columbian Exchange massively increase the population in the Old World?
The New World food crops brought to the Old World.
200
What are the 3 "Gs" that influenced Europeans to explore and colonize Latin America?
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
200
During this time period of rapid European growth, Ming China chose to [INCREASE/DECREASE] its involvement in world trade.
What is decrease?
200
What is the name of the document that gave Spain control of most of Latin America and Portugal control of most of Brazil, Africa, and Asia?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?
300
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Created conditions to facilitate the spread of the Bubonic Plague to Europe in the 1300's.
Who were the Mongols.
300
What were Christian boys who were enslaved to serve the Ottoman Empire called?
What are Janissaries/Devshirme?
300
What was the primary cause of the intense and persistent conflicts between the Safavids and Ottomans?
What is religious (Sunni/Shia) and territorial competition?
300
What two religions were dominant in the Mughal Empire? Which was the majority of the population?
What is Hinduism (majority) and Islam (minority)?
300
Name all the Chinese Dynasties we've learned about IN ORDER. (Hint there are 4 of them)
What are the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing/Ming Dynasties?
300
Which European nation (and person) was the first to sponsor extensive maritime travel SE around Africa to the Indian Ocean.
What is Portugal and Prince Henry the Navigator?
300
What is a major environmental impact of the Columbian exchange? (do not include diseases)
What is environmental degradation (deforestation, soil depletion, soil erosion)?
300
The exploitation of colonies (including the extraction of precious metals) by a dominating power is known as the economic policy of
What is Mercantilism?
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300
During this time period of rapid European growth, Japan chose to [INCREASE/DECREASE] its involvement in world trade.
What is decrease?
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300
What was the primary purpose of European trading posts in Africa and Asia?
To allow for control and access to heavily trafficked maritime routes.
400
What was the name of the final great religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Europe from 1618-1648?
The Thirty Years War
400
What system enrolled Christian boys to fight for the Ottoman Empire? Hint: It means "Selection" in Turkish.
What is Devshirme/Janissaries?
400
Who were the TWO empires the Safavid had conflicts with?
Who are the Ottomans and Mughal?
400
What was the name of the religion that emerged from the syncretic fusing of Hinduism and Islam?
What is Sikhism?
400
What was the name of the Japanese government that centralized control over the old feudal system?
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
400
What was the primary reason for Europeans' desire to begin extensive maritime travel?
To trade with Asia more easily (avoid taxes from Gunpowder Empires); support growing Mercantilism with gold and silver.
400
Identify 3 specific food items that travelled from the New World to the Old World
What are potatoes, corn, tobacco, cacao, peanuts, tomatoes?
400
What was the most important precious metal imported from the New World to Europe and what did Europe do with that metal?
What is silver and traded it with China for luxury goods?
400
Which Asian country did England establish the most direct relationship with and what empire controlled that region?
What is India & the Mughal Empire?
400
What are TWO products Europeans sold African Kingdoms in exchange for enslaved people?
What is manufactured goods (textiles, guns, rum)?
500
Term for the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation.
Counter-Reformation
This led to the spread of Catholicism around the world using the Jesuits and other missionaries.
500
What was the name of the tax on non-Muslims?
Jizya (tax on non-Muslims).
500
Name ONE empire that took advantage of the decline of the Safavid Empire and seized its territory?
Who are the Ottomans and Russians?
500
What was the primary cause of the decline of the Mughal Empire?
Peasant uprisings led to political instability that the British took advantage of
500
Describe ONE similarity between Japanese and European labor systems. Clue- one word term
What is Feudalism?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What region(s) did Spain and Portugal each rule over (colonize, monopolize)?
Spain: Most of the Americas, Latin America and the Phillipines.
Portugal: Trading posts off the coasts of Africa, Brazil
500
Identify 3 specific diseases that travelled from the Old World to the New World
What is smallpox, measles, typhus, bubonic plague, flu?
500
Identify 1 example of cultural syncretism in the New Worlds
What is Santeria, Vodun, Candomble, Virgin de Guadalupe, Day of the Dead?
500
What was the name of European state-sponsored companies sent to control trading posts in Asia? Name 2 of them.
What is a joint stock company British East India Company (EIC) & Dutch East India Company (VOC)
500
Identify 2 different types of labor systems taking place in Europe from 1450-1750
What is serfdom, indentured servants, free peasants, nomads, and guild members?
