History's Big Question
This is who decides where history begins.
Who is the historian?
This unit explores how the world was organized before becoming globally __.
What is connected?
After the Mongol Empire collapsed, this type of empire emerged across Eurasia.
What are land-based empires?
This maritime trade network connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade?
The period before writing was invented is known as this.
What is pre-history?
Historians create these to explain historical events and processes.
What are narratives?
The Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan routes all supported the exchange of these four things: __, __, __, and __.
What are culture, innovations, goods, and diseases?
These empires were often __, __, and __ in terms of their populations.
What are large, multicultural, and multiethnic?
This land-based trade route crossed the Sahara Desert to connect West Africa with the Mediterranean.
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Route?
The first major civilizations grew in these fertile areas near large waterways.
What are river valleys?
Historians often frame history by considering these two dimensions: __ and __.
What are time and space?
Learning about the Global Tapestry allows you to make historical __ across time and geographic space.
What are comparisons?
Rulers of land-based empires had to centralize this to keep their subjects in line.
What is authority?
This trade network stretched across Eurasia and reached its height under the Mongols.
What are the Silk Roads?
The invention that marked the end of pre-history and the beginning of recorded history.
What is writing?
These skills—sharpened in history class—are useful far beyond history class.
What is evidence analysis?
This nomadic empire dominated the Silk Roads until its collapse created opportunities for new land-based empires.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Civil unrest could often be avoided if rulers kept their subjects both in line and relatively __.
What is happy?
These routes not only moved goods but also spread crops, animals, and __, often changing local environments.
What is disease (or environmental consequences of diffusion)?
The Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and Huang He Rivers all supported the rise of these
What are early civilizations (or river valley civilizations)?
Comparing different stories about the same event helps historians do this key task
What is challenge perspectives (or analyze multiple narratives)?
One key reason historians study the Global Tapestry is to understand how regional networks shaped this type of growth before 1450.
What is state-building (or development of civilizations)?
Land-based empires often copied strategies for maintaining control from these groups who came before them.
or earlier empires?
These routes were critical to the spread of maritime technologies like the magnetic compass, lateen sail, and __.
or other shipbuilding innovations?
Agricultural surpluses in river valleys allowed societies to develop these two key features of civilization.
What are specialization of labor and social hierarchies (or cities and complex institutions)?