Unit 1
The process of tribute states adopting Chinese culture
What is Sinofication? (or Sinicization)
The land trade route that connected East Asia to Europe and expanded through the trade of silk and porcelain
What are the Silk Roads?
The technology that land-based empires from 1450-1750 used to conquer and expand
What is gunpowder?
The name for the spread of biological things between the Eastern and Western hemispheres due to European colonization
What is the Colombian Exchange?
The 18th century European intellectual movement that promoted reason and human rights
What is the Enlightenment?
The state religion of the Song Dynasty which justified its government
What is Confucianism/Neo-Confucianism?
The disease that spread from Central Asia to Europe, which destroyed the latter
What is the bubonic plague? (black death, the plague, black plague)
The main purpose(s) of art and monuments from 1450-1750
What is to show the empire's wealth, power, greatness, religiousness?
The name for the trade system that facilitated the plantation system and slavery in the Americas and economic growth in Afro-Eurasia
What is Triangular Trade?
The revolution where the poor majority overtook the aristocratic absolute monarchy and established a republic
What is the French Revolution?
The system where Korea, Japan, and Vietnam had to pay China and adopt its culture
What is the tributary system?
The Mongols approach to conquered people's religion, culture, and government
What is tolerance?
Akbar the Great's controversial approach to religion (Mughal Empire)
What is tolerance?
The innovations that allowed Europe to begin exploring and colonizing Asia, Africa, and the Americas
What are navigational technologies such as the magnetic compass, the astrolabe, astrological charts, and smaller ships?
The steam-powered innovation in transportation that facilitated long-distance trade and the establishment of new cities
What are trains?
The Song Dynasty expanded this ancient system which ensured only the most educated men could rule
What is the civil service exam?
What the Mongols increased and made safer
What is trade (on the Silk Roads)?
The conflict between the Ottoman and Mughals, on one hand, and Safavids on the other
What is the Sunni/Shi'a conflict?
What European empires established in Africa and Asia instead of colonies from 1450-1750
What are trading posts?
The type of factory that replaced hydro-power and increased production
What are steam/coal-powered factories?
The focus of scholars in the Abbasid Empire
What are science and mathematics?
The Chinese explorer who led multiple maritime expeditions around Africa and the Indian Ocean
Who is Zheng He?
What the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, and Ming each empires expanded (hint: political)
What is central bureaucracy?
The companies that worked with European governments to fund colonies and increase the wealth of the mother country (mercantilism)
What are joint-stock companies?
The first country to industrialize and the one which dominated global manufacturing from 1750-1900, undermining its colonies
What is Great Britain?