The Americas
The form of forced labor that Europeans inflicted on indigenous and imported Africans.
What is slavery?
The three empires that make up the Islamic World.
What are the Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, and Safavid Empire?
Peoples conquered by Eurasian Empires.
What are neighbors / nearby civilizations?
An era of history that saw millions of people perish.
What is the Great Dying?
The correct spelling of disease.
What is d-i-s-e-a-s-e?
These two empires were both conquered at the hand of European conquistadors.
What were the Aztecs and the Incas?
The two main divisions of Islam.
What are the Shia and the Sunni?
1 billion of these were planted by the Ming Dynasty as part of their recovery effort from the Mongols.
What are trees?
Two impacts of this phenomenon were irregular weather patterns and famines.
What is the Little Ice Age?
The trading route through the Sahara Desert.
The main crop grown in the Caribbean that was sold for high export prices.
What is sugar?
This major city sees an influx of religious pilgrims every year.
What is Mecca?
What are education, knowledge, history, and traditional roles?
The fall of this major city was widely regarded as the start of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
Identify nine of the world's largest empires.
What are the British, Spanish, French, Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Mughal, Safavid, Songhay, Portugese, Dutch Empires?
This is the reason literacy rates were higher in the 13 colonies than in the Caribbean and South America.
What is the Bible was taught by Protestants who required their believers to consistently read?
Identify and define this violent practice that was outlawed in the Mughal Empire.
What is sati, the law requiring wives to commit suicide when their husbands died?
These three areas were conquered as a result of Chinese expansion.
What are Tibet, Mongolia, and Xianjiang?
The recovery from war and invasion from this group of people took decades in China.
Who are the Mongols?
The three things that conquistadors came to America to do (from the quote)
What are God, the King, and getting rich?
These are twelve specific examples of things exchanged in the Columbian Exchange.
What are smallpox, measles, horses, cattle, pigs, turkeys, goats, wheat, barley, rye, potatoes, sugarcane, corn, tobacco, chocolate, various fruits and vegetables, religion, and slaves?
The names of both prominent Mughal rulers.
Who are Akbar and Aurangzeb?
The people of this area of Eastern Asia conquered the Chinese empire and became a prominent dynasty.
What is Manchuria?
The names of the two most prominent Spanish conquistadors.
Who are Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro?
The term for children of indigenous mothers and European colonizer fathers.
What is mestizo?