People travelled on foot on that allowed for goods, ideas and knowledge to be traded. This path allowed for contact with other people from destinations as west as western Europe and as far east as the Chinese coast. What is it?
What is the silk road
A political, economic, social system of landholding. Rigid Hierarchical structure. ** Please also use the markers to draw out this system that existed in the Middle Ages.
What is The Feudal System King/Pope/Nobles- Higher Clergy/ Knights/Peasants(serfs)
Why did the Aztec people present gifts to the Spanish? How is this an example of clashing worldviews?
The Aztec believed that Cortes could be their god returning. The gifts were tests for Hernan Cortes to pass or fail. Clothing and food. Cortes accepting the clothes because he thought it was a gift and rejected the food because of potential poison.
Who were the "Conquistadors"? What was their job?
They were soldiers that fought for Spain in the Reconquista and helped maintain and upkeep the political order in Spain.
The most valuable object invented during the time of the Renaissance? What role(s) did this play in the Renaissance? *think spread of ideas
What is The Printing Press Bibles being printed in familiar vernaculars The spread of the Protestant Revolution
What was the Reconquista?
What is the event when a group of Catholic Conquistadors fought to take back Spain from the Moors.
Describe what Japan did after ending isolation and list two aspects of life that they changed after this event.
Iwakura Mission
Freedom of Religion
Representative government - voting
Education is the difference between us and other countries
Private business should be encouraged
List two of the six Closed Country Edicts enforced in Japan during isolation.
1. Japanese ships are strictly forbidden to travel to foreign countries.
2. No Japanese is permitted to go abroad. Anyone who attempts to do so must be executed.
3. If any Japanese returns from overseas after residing there, he must be put to death.
4. 4. If any southern barbarians (Westerners) teach Christianity or commit crimes, they may be put into prison.
5. No single trading city shall be permitted to purchase all the merchandise brought by foreign ships.
6. Portuguese ships are banned from Japanese ports. Any ship disobeying this order will be destroyed and its crew and passengers executed.