Maps, Bias, and Perspective
What's the difference between fact and opinion?
Fact: has backup evidence to prove it
Opinion: backed bias and feelings toward a subject (opinion = perspective)
What was the Silk Road?
The vast network of trade routes between Mediterranean sea and East Asia
Why was there stagnation in the dark ages (hint: four main categories)
Social Stagnation, Trade Stagnation, Warfare, Crusades
What was the Colombian exchange?
Colombian Exchange: the cross pollination of disease, plants, animals, and cultures between the Old and New World.
What's the difference between Northern and Italian Renaissance Art
U should know this one
Name at least 4 groups of people who aren't heard
Who is Genghis Khan?
1206: He was the ruler of the Mongolian empire who led the expansion and of the empire and united rival nomadic tribes.
Symptoms of the Plague, why it spread, and it's effects
1. fever fatigue and buboes
2. Traveled along silk road and merchant sailors spread the disease to Europe. Poor living conditions, hygiene, and it traveled with armies
3. effected: Church, education individualism, trade, travel, collective learning, urban life, social classes, how people viewed authority, and economics
the only disease transported from new to old world
syphilis
What was the Renaissance known as, as a whole, and in Europe
Rebirth - Elizabethan age
Primary: direct access to subject of research
Secondary: subject of research from a different POV, plus commentary
What are the importance of Middlemen on the Silk Road
They took control of the spice trade which led to the tribes being really rich they also told stories to traders overhyping their product so they would get more money and they were in the middle of the trade. They got rich
What was the renaissance? What are the changes in art between the middle ages and Renaissance (also state main artists)? State the 4 classical and worldly values, explain the outcomes of the Renaissance.
Renaissance: rebirth of europe and the transition from middle ages to what is known as the modern era
· Know major revolutions in Renaissance Art?
· Know the 4 Classical and Worldly Values
How were slaves captured, who were they normally traded to, what were their conditions, and what would they have to do.
Explain Goodwell's arguments for why Goliath should be considered the underdog
What is Pax Mongolica
Mongol Peace: This idea fell upon any in the Mongol Empire. It allowed taxes to be placed on people entering the empire and leaving the empire. It ensured religious freedom, made trading safer and easier, and made life peaceful for those in the empire
Who is Martin Luther, what did he do, and what did he believe in?
Martin Luther was a german monk who disagreed with many aspects of the church, wrote 95 Theses about it, and made it public for all to see. He agrued against the Pope, against excommunication, along with the utilization of indulgences.
How did europeans gain control over native populations and what techniques did they use? How much of the native population was killed off?
The gained control by starting a cycle of death and disease. A tiny force from Europe had the ability to conquer millions through disease, new weaponry and tech, and horses (everything completely new to the natives).
State the advantages and disadvantages of globes vs. projections.
Describe the difference between Mercator, Goode, Peters, and Orbis Terrae Maps.
Globes more accurate but impractical to use in the field and can't be reproduced on a book.
Projections distort shape, size, distances, location, and proportion of the world in many different ways.
Idk check wkst abt maps im too lazy to explain differences and stuff
State the problems seen with the church and explain why people might have branched off into different branches of christianity, how, and why.
1. Greed, Indulgences, Corruption
2. Printing press, unhappy with church, Martin Luther, Martin Luther writes bible in German so people understand, Printing Press, accessibility, loss of trust with the church etc.
State the main explorers funded by spain or portugal and what they did.