The Black Death
The plague traveled along trade routes and coastlines over this many years.
What is five years/1346–1351?
This was the name for the era of stability and protection that allowed merchants to travel safely.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
This invention from China was originally used for fireworks before being used in warfare.
What is gunpowder?
Both European and Japanese feudalism were built on these three pillars.
What are loyalty, land, and military service?
The plague actually began in this region before moving toward Europe.
What is Central Asia?
This port on the Black Sea was known as the "gateway into Europe."
What is Caffa?
Mongol warriors were trained from this age to shoot arrows at a full gallop.
What is childhood?
China held this over the silk industry for centuries, meaning they were the only ones who knew how to produce it.
What is a monopoly?
This was the strict code of honor, loyalty, and discipline followed by the Samurai.
What is Bushido?
This island nation was heavily affected by the plague because trade ships brought the disease to its shores.
What is England?
These two southern European countries were hit earliest due to busy trading ports and dense urban populations.
What are Italy and Greece?
This famous network of trade routes was protected by the Mongols but also acted as a "highway" for the plague.
What is the Silk Road?
This type of printing involved carving text into wood to reproduce pages faster than hand-copying.
What is woodblock printing?
This was the specific code of conduct followed by European knights.
What is Chivalry?
This body of water's trading ports were the reason Southern Europe was hit by the plague so early.
What is the Mediterranean?
This fraction of Europe’s population died, leading to a total economic collapse.
What is a third to half?
Unlike European knights in heavy armor, Mongol cavalry relied on these two factors for success.
What are speed and mobility?
In China, sharing the secret of silk production was considered this type of offense, punishable by death.
What is a capital offense?
In Europe, armored warriors pledged loyalty to a lord in exchange for these pieces of land.
What are fiefs?
By the end of the Middle Ages, these three regions were more linked than at any point in human history.
What are Europe, Asia, and the Middle East?
Because of the labor shortage, surviving peasants were able to demand these two things for the first time.
What are higher wages and better working conditions?
The Mongol legacy is described by this three-word phrase because it brought both wealth and disease.
What is a "double-edged sword"?
The arrival of gunpowder in Europe made these two staples of medieval defense increasingly obsolete.
What are traditional castles and armored knights?
This group sat at the base of both societies, owing labor and taxes but having "little social mobility."
Who are the peasants?
According to the slides, trade was considered this for the world—the thing that drove both "progress and catastrophe."
What is the engine?