Unit 1
Drought Resistant strain of rice from Vietnam
Champa Rice
This type of currency replaced coins on the Silk Road
Paper Money
Name of the strict Islamic Legal Code
Shariah Law
Name the 5 Maritime Empires
(Bonus for specifying the 1st one)
Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, English
Where did the Mongols originate from?
The Central and East Asian Steppes
They system of labor used by the Inca instead of taxing their citizens
(Bonus if you can tell me at least one of the things citizens had to do under this system)
Mit'a System
Build Roads, Farm, etc...
What is the name of the epidemic that spread along the Silk Road and ravaged Europe (killing 1/3rd of the population)
(Bonus for stating both it's termed name and clinical name)
Black Death or Bubonic Plague
Name of the leader who ruled the precursor empire for the gunpowder nations (especiall the Islamic Mughal, Saffavid, and Ottoman Empires)
Tamerlane/Timur the Lame
Name of the 1st monarch to fund naval exploration in Europe and what nation they're from
Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal
How did the Mongols spread trade along the Silk Road?
They helped build roads, centralize governments, protected the roads from bandits, used a common currency
A decentralized political organization based on a system of exchanges of land for loyalty.
(Bonus if you can draw the social Hierarchy pyramid that goes along with this)
Feudalism
Name at least 1 techonology that helped with trade for each of the trade routes
Silk Road - Caravanserai (trading cities around bodies of fresh water), saddles, Paper Money
Trans-Saharan - Camel Saddles
Indian Ocean - Stern Rudder, Astrolabe, Magnetic Compass, Lateen Sails
Explain how either the Ming/Qing, Ottomans, or Russia collected Taxes
(Bonus for explaining how for all 3)
Russia taxed the land and eventually the people
Ottomans had officials that would farm taxes for them
The Ming had wealthy families collect taxes in grain
Describe both an impact on the Old World and on the New World because of the Columbian Exchange
Old World diseases wiped out huge swathes of the Native populace. New food stuffs from the new world like corn and potatos helped diversify Old World diets. Livestock like horses and cows changed how farming was.
Term used to describe the period between the 13th and 14th centuries in which the mongols ruled
Pax Mongolica
The only Christian Majority Nation in Africa
Ethiopia
Name at least 2 trade goods for all 3 trade routes
Silk Road - Porcelain, Silk, Tea, Dates, Poms
Trans-Saharan - Gold, Ivory, Slaves
Indian Ocean - Citrus, Bananas, Slaves, textiles
Name one of the offshoots of Christianity that appeared during the Protestant Revolution and one of it's major beliefs.
(Bonus for naming all 3)
Lutheranism - Sola Fide: Faith Alone earns salvation
Calvinism - People are predesitened to go to heavan
Anglicanism - King of England is head of the church (wanted to get divorced so he could have a son)
List at least one challenge to state power (either to the maritime empires, or the land empires from before) and who led it
Ana Nzinga and the Ndongo in Africa against the Portuguese, Yemelyan Pugachev and the Serfs in Russia, Pueblo Revolt in America against Spain, Queen Nanny and the Maroons against England in Jamaica, Metacom and the Wampanoag in America against the British.
Name at least 1 longterm impact of the Mongols
Spread the Black Death, Helped spread tech from China and ME to Europe, Stabilized trade, Spread ideas of centralized government, invented siege weaponry that ended the era of walled cities and knights in armor
An example of a mixture of Hindu art with geometric patterns used by Islamic architects
Qutub Minar
Name at least 1 major city for the Silk Road, Indian Ocean Trade Network, and the Trans-Saharan Trade Network
(Bonus if you name a second for each route)
Silk Road - Samarkand, Kashgar, Hangzhuo, Baghdad
Indian Ocean - Calicut, Malacca/Melaka, Swahili City States (Mombasa and Zanzibar)
Trans-Saharan - Timbuktu, Cairo
Name at least one important leader of a gunpowder empire and what they did. (Bonus for naming a leader for all 5 gunpowder empires and one thing they accomplished)
Russia - Ivan IV, Peter the Great. Ming/Qing - Kangxi, Qianlong. Ottoman - Mehmed II, Suleiman I. Safavid - Shah Abbas I. Mughal - Babur, Akbar
Describe one change in social Hierarchies in the period 1450-1700
Tolerance to relgious minorities in the Ottoman and Mughal empires. The kicking out of Jews in England, France, and Spain. The Manchu, rulers of the Qing Dynasty, forced Han chinese to wear specific clothes and keep their hair in a queue. The Castas System in New World Spanish Territories
Name the 3 grandsons of Ghengis, the name of their factions, and where they conquered
Batu, the Golden Horde, Russia
Hulegu, Il-khanate, Middle East
Kublai Khan, Yuan Dynasty, China