Empires of Asia
What is the Shogun?
This Mughal emperor became known for religious tolerance and cooperation with Hindu elites.
Who is Akbar?
This exchange moved plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This valuable West African resource traveled north across the Sahara and helped connect West Africa to Mediterranean trade.
What is gold?
These overland routes connected China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
What are the Silk Roads?
Qing rulers continued using this system to select government officials educated in Confucian ideas and Chinese government.
What is the civil service examination system?
These elite Ottoman soldiers were trained to serve the Sultan and became one of the empire’s most powerful military forces.
Who are the Janissaries?
Sugar and tobacco are examples of these crops, grown primarily to be sold for profit.
What are cash crops?
Ashanti, Oyo, and Dahomey were examples of these organized political societies that existed in West Africa during the growth of Atlantic trade.
What are kingdoms/states?
Sailors in the Indian Ocean planned their voyages around these seasonal winds.
What are monsoon winds?
Tokugawa leaders required powerful daimyo to spend part of their time in this city, helping the shogunate keep them under control.
What is Edo?
This Ottoman system allowed Christian and Jewish communities to manage some of their own religious and community affairs.
What is the millet system?
This forced voyage carried millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
As Atlantic demand for enslaved labor grew, captives taken during this activity could be enslaved and sold into Atlantic commerce.
What is warfare?
This Southeast Asian trade hub sat between the Indian Ocean and East Asia, making it a major meeting point for merchants.
What is Malacca?
Rather than completely shutting itself off, Tokugawa Japan continued limited trade with these two foreign peoples at Nagasaki.
Who are the Dutch and Chinese?
This Mughal emperor expanded the empire to its greatest territorial size, but his stricter religious policies increased tensions within the empire.
Who is Aurangzeb?
Under this economic system, European countries tried to increase national wealth by controlling trade and using colonies for resources and markets.
What is mercantilism?
Plantation owners demanded enormous amounts of labor because crops such as sugar required this type of large-scale agricultural production.
What is plantation agriculture?
This Mughal port connected goods produced throughout India to markets across the Indian Ocean and beyond.
What is Surat?
The Qing were a minority ruling a much larger Chinese population. Name ONE strategy they used to strengthen their rule without abandoning their Manchu identity.
What is adopting/maintaining Chinese traditions and government practices?
The Mughal and Ottoman Empires faced the same major governing challenge: controlling enormous territories filled with people of different religions and cultures. Name ONE strategy used by either empire to deal with this challenge.
Answers can include Akbar's religious tolerance/cooperation with Hindu elites, the Ottoman millet system, or another specific governing strategy supported by class material.
Name the THREE regions connected by the Atlantic trading system we studied
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
“European involvement in the Atlantic slave trade created organized government and trade in West Africa.”
West African societies already had organized governments and trade networks before and during the growth of Atlantic commerce.
Put these trade hubs in order to trace goods moving from East Asia toward Europe: Aleppo, Canton, Malacca, Surat.
What is Canton → Malacca → Surat → Aleppo?