U1: Religion and Empire
A long-lasting, complex challenge or problem that societies have faced across time, proving difficult to solve and often reappearing in different forms
What is an Enduring Issue?
Name for a ruler, leader, or monarch of a tribe or ulus (people/state) in the Mongol Empire
What is a khan?
The name for the social and economic hierarchy within Europe during the Middle Ages
What is feudalism or manorialism?
Renaissance thinker who believed strongly in the idea that for rulers the ends always justifies the means.
Who is Machiavelli?
Point of View, Context, Audience, and Purpose/Significant
What is a Four Corners Source Analysis?
Muslim traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula. He wrote about many of the accomplishments of the Medieval Islamic Empires.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
A foundational tool of the Mongol Empire, providing unparalleled mobility for swift conquests, communication , and survival
What is the horse?
The most powerful social and political institution within Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Catholic Church?
stresses the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems as opposed to spiritual ones.
What is Humanism?
What is Analysis?
Incredibly wealthy 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa, famous for his vast gold reserves, legendary pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) which showcased his immense riches and impacted economies like Cairo's, and for transforming cities like Timbuktu into major centers of learning, culture, and Islamic scholarship,
Who is Mansa Musa?
The name for the Golden Age of the Mongol Empire.
What is Pax Mongolica?
Infamous for giving a speech that helped start the Crusades.
The famous piece of writing that sparked the Protestant Reformation.
What were Martin Luther's 95 Theses?
A sentence with an independent and dependent clause, in which you write a statement that would require further explanation and evidence to support it. Types of these are time, cause/effect, contrast, and condition.
What is a Complex Claim?
Experienced by the Medieval Islamic Empires, a historical period characterized by peak peace, prosperity, cultural flourishing, and political stability
What is a Golden Age?
The original and most famous ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
One of the primary carriers of the Bubonic Plague.
What are rats?
Modern scientific method, the telescope, microscope, concept of gravity, heliocentric model of the universe
What are effects of the Scientific Revolution?
What is Historical Context?
a vast ancient network of trade routes, connecting East Asia (China) with the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, active from roughly 200 BCE to the 15th century CE, facilitating exchange of goods like silk, spices, precious metals, plus ideas, cultures, religions, and technologies
What is the Silk Road?
Two unique innovations of the Mongol Empire that helped massively with trade and communication
What are paper money and a postal system?
Massive depopulation, severe labor shortages, higher wages for peasants, social upheaval, and new freedoms, while also sparking intense religious fervor and persecution
What are some Effects of the Bubonic Plague?
The parachute, self supporting bridge, giant crossbow, diving suits, armored fighting vehicles
Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci
This "unlocks" the important information of any historical map or chart about historical events.
What is a Key?