The Global Tapestry
Chinese Civil Service Exam
What was the test officials had to take to become part of the government?
Silk, Gold, Spices, Horses, Porcelain, Iron, Tortoise Shells, etc.
What are goods that were traded on the networks of exchange?
Technology that allowed land-based empires to expand.
What is gunpowder?
The biological exchange between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas between 1450 and 1750
What was the Columbian Exchange?
A company people can buy and sell parts of
What is a joint stock company?
2 States that developed in the Americas between 1200 and 1450
What are the ____ and ____ ?
Aztecs/Mexica
Inca
Maya
Cahokia
Pueblo
3 networks of exchange before 1450
What are the Silk Road, Trans-Sahara, and Indian Ocean trade routes?
Provided stability for the Silk Road between 1200 and 1750
What are land-based empires?
Economic policies centered around a favorable balance of trade (before 1800)
What is mercantilism?
Delhi Sultanate, Seljuk Empire, Mamluks, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire
What are Turkic Dynasties/Empires?
Political system based on exchanging service/labor for loyalty/land
What is feudalism?
Facilitated the spread of the black death
What is the Silk Road?
OR
Who were the Mongols?
What was the Protestant Reformation?
2 examples of challenges to state power between 1450 and 1750
What were ___ and ___?
Maroon societies, Slave revolts, Maratha-Mughal Conflict, Cossack Revolts, Metacom's War, the Fronde, Pueblo revolt, etc...
Mit'a system, Transatlantic slave trade, Corvee, Encomienda system,
What are systems of forced labor?
African state(s) that arose between 1200 and 1450
What is Mali/Mansa Musa?
What is the Swahili Coast?
What are the Hausa Kingdoms?
3 innovations that enabled travel on the networks of exchange before 1450
What are:
compass, caravanserai, flying cash/paper money, camel saddle, banking houses, lateen sail (among other examples)
An important tool for maintaining legitimacy of empires
What is _____?
Religion
Art
Historians
What was the system under which Spanish conquistadors were given an allotment of people to use to extract resources from newly conquered lands in the Americas?
Encomienda System
2 religions that spread into Southeast Asia and significantly impacted the culture there
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
Philosophy based on merit and filial piety
What is Confucianism?
Mystics/missionaries who spread Islam along networks of exchange
Who are Sufis?
What are Sufis?
System where Christian boys were taken from their villages, converted, and trained into loyal officials in the Ottoman Empire
What is Devshirme?
1 technological innovation enabled European exploration.
What is ___?
Islamic cartography, Compass (Chinese), Lateen sail, astrolabe, new type of rudder, astronomical chart, new kinds of ship (caravel, carrack, fluyt)
The ethnic group that ruled the Qing Dynasty
Who were the Manchu?