Africa
A series of routes connecting North, West, and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the Mediterranian. Used for goods, precious metals, livestock, food, and enslaved people.
Trans-Saharan Trade Network
Replaces nearly 100 years of Mongol Rule in China with native rulership
The Ming Dynasty
One of the most significant Renaissance (re)inventions that changed society in the 1400s, originating in Germany (the earliest known version of this "modern" invention was in China).
The printing press
The movement of cultures, goods/resources, technologies, animals, diseases and enslaved people during the age of exploration
The Columbian Exchange
Indigenous community, still present today, whose traditional resource practices include the hunting of sea mammals, including whales, seals
The leader of the empire of Mali whose travels influenced world economies and religious practices, considered to be one of the richest people in history.
Mansa Musa
The feudal lords of Japan during the Ashikaga period (1336-1573)
Shogun
One of the most influential families of Renaissance patrons
The Medicis
Portugal, Spain, England, France
Considered the largest forced migration in human history
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
An enclosed medieval stone city left over from what was once a thriving trade empire (primarily gold) from the 11th-15th century. Considered a UNESCO heritage site.
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe / The Great Zimbabwe
A social/cultural force that provided stability and solace during the tumultuous Ōnin War ("Sengoku period")
Buddhism
The philosophical theory that all life, human, non-human and divine, exists in a hierarchy
The Great Chain of Being
Cultural civilization mostly wiped out by colonization (with cultural resurgance efforts present today), known for creating highly sophisticated network of roads which extended across modern-day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and parts of Colombia, Chile, and Argentina.
Inca
The "3 Gs" used to explain the age of exploration
God, Glory, Gold
An African Nation highly influenced by the Orthodox church, church reforms and wariness towards other religions
The Ethiopian Empire
Who was Hwang Jini?
A poet of the Joseon Dynasty whose work represented the creative means by which women were able to find ways to express their freedoms and emotions despite strict gender roles of the time
The Renaissance marks the beginning of the 3rd major division of Western history ("the modern era"). What are the first 2?
Antiquity, middle ages
Civilization whose descendants are the largest Indigenous group in Mexico
Aztec
Renaissance era philosophical/spiritual theory that the world is divided into two natures, order and chaos, and that humans occupy the midpoint in between
Dualism
A region whose economy was maintained by trade in copper, ivory, salt, cattle hides, and slaves along its main river.
The Kingdom of Kongo
The values of Confucianism (primarily in the Joseon Dynasty) - name at least 3
Education, social hierarchy, order, peace, harmony, personal conduct, filial piety
Focus on human achievement, the arts, literature, science, this life rather than the afterlife, new styles of education, individual moral autonomy, theocentric to athropocentric
System in which Indigenous peoples of South America were forced to work "in trust" for Spanish conquerors in "exchange" for religious teachings
Encomienda System
Famous pop culture figures named in honour of significant Renaissance artists
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Donatello, Raphael Michelangelo and Leonardo)