Trade networks
Labor systems
Resistance movements
Global impacts
Religion and culture
100

This Chinese luxury good became a major export along the Silk Roads and was highly desired by European elites 

Silk 
100

This labor system in Spanish colonies forced Native Americans to work under Spanish settlers in exchange for "protection" and religious instruction

Encomienda system 
100

The 1680 uprising in New Mexico temporarily expelled Spanish colonizers and was led by Indigenous Pueblo leaders. 

Pueblo Revolt 

100

The exchange of crops like corn and potatoes to Europe resulted in what major demographic change?

Population growth
100

This religion spread from Indian into Central and East Asia through the Silk Roads, influencing art and architecture. 

Buddhism

200

This Indian Ocean port city thrived as a trading hub for spices, textiles, and gold during the height of maritime commerce

Calicut 

200

This group of laborers agreed to work for several years in exchange for passage to the New World, often facing poor conditions. 

Indentured servants 
200

Which revolution, led by formerly enslaved people, overthrew French control and established the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere?

Haitian Revolution

200
What effect did the introduction of bananas and rice have on African agricultural systems?

Crop variations  

200

As it spread along trade routes, this religion shaped laws, education, and governance in West Africa and Southeast Asia. 

Islam

300

Along which major overland route did Central Asian cities like Samarkand prosper due to increased caravan trade?

Silk Roads 

300

Enslaved Africans were a key labor force in these agricultural systems used to grow sugar and tobacco in the Americas. 

Plantation economies 

300

Indigenous communities sometimes avoided colonial conflict by migrating to these isolated or rugged areas. 

Remote regions

300

Global trade led to the growth of this economic class, which benefitted from credit and investment opportunities. 

Merchant class 
300

The 1857 rebellion in India was fueled partly by religious tensions between Hindu and Muslim soldiers and the British. 

Sepoy Rebellion 

400
This deadly disease spread via trade routes from Asia to Europe, significantly reducing the global population 

Black Death

400

In which empire were serfs tied to land, working for landlords with few legal rights and no mobility?

Russian Empire

400
This 1795 agreement between Native tribes and the U.S. government attempted to settle land disputes in the Ohio Valley.

Treaty of Greenville

400

The expansion of global trade networks increased the demand for these types of workers, especially in textile and artisan industries. 

Skilled laborers

400

Religion often unified people under colonization; in what way did Hindu and Muslim leaders in India resist British influence?

Shared religious identity

500

This maritime technology, essential for Indian Ocean navigation, was adapted from earlier Chinese inventions. 

Magnetic compass 

500

This massive trade system forcibly transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic to work in the Americas. 

Transatlantic slave trade 

500

What were the communities of escaped enslaved people called, often found in the Caribbean or South America?

Maroon communities 

500

The growth of global markets often caused this negative impact on artisans in regions like China and Europe. 

Economic shift   

500

Trade encouraged the spread of cultural elements like musical instruments and art forms across Afro-Eurasia. What is this process called?

Cultural diffusion 

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