Unit 1
This innovation contributed to the doubling of the Chinese population during the Tang and Song dynasties
What is "the adoption of a fast-ripening strain of rice from Vietnam"?
This luxury good came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system
What is "silk"?
This civilization was the most centralized, unified, and prosperous of the world's major civilizations in the 15th century.
What is "China"?
This man led the attach on the Aztec Empire.
What is "Hernan Cortes"?
This animal made the long trek across the Sahara possible
What is "camels"?
This revival explains why women's lives were more restricted in the Song dynasty than in the previous dynasty
What is "Confucianism"?
This network of exchange caused Chinese peasants to focus more on producing luxury goods
What is "the Silk road trade"?
Mongol rule in Russia facilitated the rise to power of this city.
What is "Moscow"?
The Native Americans deficiency in this contributed to the Great Dying.
What is "immunity to Eurasian diseases"?
The Sahara held rich deposits of this highly valued commodity.
What is "Salt"?
This complex network contributed to China's economic prosperity during the Song dynasty by providing cheap transporation
What is "a complex network of internal waterways"?
The spread of the Black Death from China to Europe in the 14th century occurred during an era of increased contact facilitated by this groups rule
What is "Mongol rule"?
This region gained the most from the exchanges of ideas and technologies facilitated by the Mongol Empire
What is "Europe"?
The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian diet is an example of this exchange
What is "the Columbian Exchange"?
This commodity was called soft gold in early modern commerce.
What is "fur"?
The emergence of this practice during the Song dynasty suggests that Chinese women's lives were more restricted than they had been in the previous dynasty
What is "Foot binding"?
This maritime technological innovation facilitated Indian Ocean commerce by being able to carry large amounts of cargo.
What is "junks"?
In its effort to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, the Ming dynasty looked to these for inspiration.
What is "The culture of past Chinese dynasties"?
The first direct and sustained link between the Americas and Asia was the trade in this precious metal.
What is "silver"?
This meteorological phenomenon in the early modern period provided incentives for Europeans to go into the fur trade.
What is "the Little Ice Age"?
In Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, this system emerged that emphasized the reciprocal ties between a king and his vassals and between a lord and his serfs.
What is "Feudalism"?
Buddhism changed as it spread along the Silk Roads because of the incorporation of many gods as these beings
What are "bodhisattvas"?
In this empire, a Shia version of Islam was made the official religion in the 16th century?
What is the "Safavid" Empire?
The introduction of domesticated animals into the Americas made this industry/economy possible.
What is "ranching economies"?
The Inca and Aztec empires practiced similar gender-based systems in which women and men operated in two separate but equivalent spheres, a system that scholars call
What is "gender parallelism"?