Unit 1
What is a theocracy?
A theocracy is a government that's heavily influenced by religion.
Who was the Mongol's leader?
Their leader was Genghis Khan.
What empires were a part of the gunpowder empires?
The gunpowder empires were the Ottoman, Safavid and the Mughal empires.
What was primogeniture laws?
Primogeniture laws are where all the family's land and wealth gets passed down to the oldest son.
What were the ideals of the enlightenment movement?
The ideals were individualism, self determination and freedom.
What is animism?
Animism is the belief that animals, inanimate objects and plants have a soul and feelings.
Who led the Golden Horde?
The Golden Horde was led by Batu Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson.
What were castes?
Castes were a system where people were put into social classes.
What did Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco de Gama do? What was Ferdinand Magellan known for?
Diaz sailed to the southern tip of Africa and Vasco de Gama sailed further to India. Magellan was the first person to make a trip around the world, even though he died on the way.
What is deism?
Deism is the belief that divinity set natural laws in place/ motion.
Where did the Bhakti movement start?
The bhakti movement started in India.
What are diasporas?
Diasporas are the trips the Jews took to disperse and move around the world.
Tamerlane was known for what?
Tamerlane was known for spending too much money on military.
What's the difference between chattel slavery and indentured servants?
Chattel slavery was where the slaves were given no rights and no money and indentured servants had more rights and only worked for a certain amount of years. They were also treated better than the slaves.
What did the philosophes explore?
The philosophes explored political, social and economic theories in new ways.
How did Buddhism spread to china?
Buddhism spread from merchants traveling down the silk road.
India was known for its ________, Malaysia and Indonesia were known for ________.
India was known for its fabrics and Malaysia and Indonesia were known for spices.
What was the divine right of kings?
The divine right of kings was where the king and queen got absolute power over everything and what they say goes.
What was the most demanded crop being traded in the Columbian Exchange?
The most demanded crop was sugar cane.
Who published A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
The author was Mary Wollstonecraft.
Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which two religious or ethical systems of thought were similar or different up through the 15th century.
Two religions that could be seen as different during this time period would be Islam and Buddhism. They are both drastically different. Islam is a very strenuous and time consuming religion that has a lot of rules and regulations. Buddhism is very focused on yourself and finding nirvana or your happy place. Buddhists go through a lot of hunger and pain to get to the raw state that they believe is nirvana. Muslims have so many rules including the 5 pillars and everything revolves around their god Allah and the prophet Muhammad.
Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which trading networks in these regions between 1200 and 1450 affected the diffusion of cultural traditions.
During that time period the Silk Road was a very popular trade network that everybody used and because you had people from India, China, Asia etc. this led to all these people bringing along their cultures and traditions. Because the silk road was so long and most people traveled on camels, there were caravels set up about every 100 miles. All these merchants traveling and trading along this road would stop at the caravels and mingle and talk to the other merchants. They would share ideas and their traditions and some of the people would adopt new cultures just from hearing the other merchants talk about it. Also the people trading would trade certain textiles and information that encouraged cultural expansion.
Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which various land based empires in southern and southwestern Asia developed in similar ways from 1450-1750.
The Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman empires were connected/ similar because they all relied on their access to gunpowder to overtake other neighboring areas. These three empires dominated as far as military and war goes. Their downfall was that they were so preoccupied by making their military strong so that they could defend their empire against any outsiders that they didn't realize that their destruction was coming from within their empire. The people were starving because all the money went to military and there were some religious conflicts and government conflicts etc. These were all common reasons found between the three empires.
Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which the systems of slavery in that era showed changes or continuities over time.
Slavery definitely evolved as far as over time it did get better. At first slaves had no rights what so ever and they were treated like property. That was called chattel slavery. Then, over time they started to gain back a little freedom. The evolved version of slavery was indentured servants. They did the not so grueling work that was mainly done in the house and they also got treated way better. Some indentured slaves only had to work for about 7 years and then they were given a little money so they could go off and start their own life.
Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which the technologies and types of business organizations in Russia, the united states and china were similar or different from 1750-1900.
The similarities that occurred between Russia, the United States and China were that all three of them were expanding their technological advancements and crawling out of the farming time where everyone was a farmer. All three places were heavy on factories and assembly lines where they had women and children working to assemble these new goods so that the big man could see them. These three all advanced at a rather similar place. They left Africa and other continents completely unrelated to the new advancements they were experiencing. Because of their fast pace improvement, they were ahead of the other places around the world which gave them an advantage.