Unit 1 Vocab
What vocabulary term means an account or story about events?
Narrative
What is the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called?
Hajj
According to Adichie, what is the danger of treating a single story about people as their whole story?
It creates an incomplete picture or stereotype and hides other experiences. Accept a clear statement that one story cannot represent people's whole lives.
What made the six land-based states studied in Lesson 3.2 empires?
They were large political systems ruling different territories and peoples. The answer must include rule over multiple territories or peoples.
Which ocean lies between the Americas and Europe and Africa?
The Atlantic Ocean
People use spoken words and written signs to represent ideas that others understand. What form of communication is this?
Symbolic language
What term describes an organized group of officials who keep records and carry out government work?
Bureaucracy
In the Unit 1 Overview, what two kinds of numerical data does Bennett use to test Kim and Colby's arguments?
Airline ticket prices and average temperatures in Sydney and Chicago. Both kinds of data required.
What contrasting population effects did the Columbian Exchange have in different regions? Give one effect linked to food and one linked to disease.
New food crops helped support population growth in parts of the world. Introduced diseases caused severe population losses among Indigenous Americans. Both effects required.
Name the sea west of India and the bay east of India
The Arabian Sea is west of India; the Bay of Bengal is east. Both required in the correct locations.
Workers make cloth in a workshop, and merchants sell it in distant markets. Name the vocabulary term for each process.
Production is making the cloth; distribution is selling or moving it to buyers. Both terms must be matched correctly.
A ruler concentrates decision-making in the capital. A privileged social class holds special influence. Which term describes the government, and which names the social class?
Centralized describes the government; aristocracy names the social class. Both terms must be matched correctly.
Match each focus to one of the three historical frames: shared identity and belonging; connections through which ideas travel; how goods are made and sold.
Communities; networks; production and distribution, in that order. All three must be matched correctly.
How did the breakup of Mongol rule help encourage Europeans to search for new sea routes?
Mongol protection of overland routes weakened, and competing land empires complicated European access to Asian goods. Europeans sought alternative routes by sea. A trade difficulty and its link to maritime exploration required.
Put these imperial cores in order from west to east: Mughal, Holy Roman, Safavid, Ottoman
Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire. All four in order required.
Name the four claim testers in this order: a gut feeling; a respected specialist; sound reasoning; records that support or challenge a claim.
Intuition; authority; logic; evidence. All four in the correct order required.
A government protects home industries, encourages exports, and seeks gold and silver. Name the policy and explain whether it describes a state's economic strategy or the private ownership of production.
Mercantilism. It describes a state's strategy to strengthen its economy through protection, exports, and accumulating gold and silver. Private ownership and competition define capitalism in the course vocabulary. Policy and distinction required.
How does symbolic language help knowledge accumulate across generations, and how can the same process have harmful effects? Give one harmful example from the lesson.
People use symbols to share, preserve, and build on knowledge across generations. They can also pass down harmful beliefs, such as racism or ideas used to justify slavery. Explanation and one example required.
A Chinese workshop made a porcelain jug bearing Portuguese royal arms. Explain how inland goods reached overseas buyers and how those buyers could influence what workers produced.
Roads and rivers linked workshops to ports and overseas buyers. Foreign customers' preferences could influence what inland workers produced. Both the transport connection and the influence on production required.
Trace the silver route by putting China, Spanish America, and Manila in order from the silver's source to its Asian market. Which ocean did the silver cross to reach Manila?
Spanish America to Manila to China; the Pacific Ocean. Correct route and ocean required.
A historian zooms from one city's history to a global story. Then, keeping the same time and area, she focuses on how goods were made and moved. Name the first method and the organizing lens in the second step.
First: scale switching. Second: the production and distribution frame. The first changes scale; the second changes the focus. Both required.
Privately owned agricultural estates compete to sell crops and depend on enslaved labor. Name the broad economic system and the more specific system. What makes the second more specific?
Capitalism is the broad system; the plantation system is the more specific one. The plantation system depends on enslaved labor in the course definition. Both terms and the distinction required.
Wayne said Zalman injured his finger to avoid army service. Another family story says Zalman's mother brought him food in an army camp. How does this challenge Wayne's account, and what remains uncertain?
The camp story suggests Zalman served in the army, challenging the idea that he avoided service. It is still another family memory and does not establish how he lost his finger. Both the challenge and the limit required.
In the video, conquistadors resisted Charles V's orders to restrict encomiendas. What limit on imperial power does this reveal, and how could distance make the problem worse?
Formal authority did not guarantee obedience when colonists' interests conflicted with royal policies. Scattered territories and slow communication made monitoring and enforcement harder. Both the limit and the effect of distance required.
A cotton fragment made in Gujarat was found in Egypt. What connection between regions does this support, and what can the fragment alone not tell us about its journey?
It supports a trade connection from South Asian production to African consumers. It does not establish the exact route, carriers, or a direct journey from Gujarat to Egypt. Connection and one valid limit required.