Unit 3
This empire used devshirme to staff elite military units like the Janissaries
Ottomans
Which maritime Portuguese ship helped launch European oceanic exploration?
Caravel
This sport is known as “the beautiful game.”
Soccer/Football
The voyages of this Chinese admiral predated European exploration by decades.
Zheng He
These animals transformed Indigenous societies in the Great Plains.
Horses
The use of gunpowder weapons helped lead to conflict between these two Islamic states
Ottoman & Safavid
This crop from the Americas caused major population growth in Europe
Corn/Maize/Potato
This American civilization used terrace farming and road networks to unify the Andes.
Inca
Spain traded this to Ming China from their colonies in the Americas
Silver
This Mughal structure built by Shah Jahan was used to legitimize his rule.
Taj Mahal
This East Asian dynasty continued the exam system from the Ming Dynasty
Qing (Manchu)
This Old World disease caused up to 90% of the Indigenous population to die in the Americas.
smallpox
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by sea.
da Gama
This movie from 2019 broke the all-time box office record.
Avengers: Endgame
This dystopian novel by George Orwell imagines a society under constant surveillance.
1984
One way rulers controlled elites was by forcing nobles to live near them, such as this ruler
King Louis XIV (France)
Which treaty created the line dividing Spanish and Portuguese territories in the Americas?
Treaty of Tordesillas
This queen resisted Portuguese expansion, formed alliances, and protected her people from enslavement.
Ana Nzinga
The Mughal Empire used this group—similar to feudal tax collectors—to maintain local power and revenue collection.
This is the only number that has the same number of letters as its numerical value.
Four
This King contributed to the Protestant Reformation
King Henry VIII
Which Spanish labor system, taken from the Inca, required Indigenous communities to provide labor in Andean silver mines?
Mita
This mammal has fingerprints almost identical to humans—so much so they could confuse detectives.
koala
This Catholic order led missionary work and education during the Counter-Reformation
Jesuits
This food never spoils—archaeologists found 3,000-year-old jars of it in Egyptian tombs.
Honey