Unit 1
A Confucian philosophy that commands the respect for your elders, or ancestors.
What is Filial Piety?
The world‘s major hub before the Transatlantic trade, and the prime cause of Muslim expansion
What is Indian Ocean Trade?
Islamic empire that conquered Constantinople, one of the Gunpowder empires.
Ottoman Empire
traveled to India and opened up Indian Ocean trade to Europeans
Who is Vasco de Gama?
A form of Buddhism that originated in Tibet and is based around chanting.
What is Tibetan Buddhism?
Moroccan muslim scholar who traveled around the Middle East and India
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The Safavids were this sect of Islam
What is Shi’ia Islam?
Joint Stock Company in the Indies, owned by the English
What is the British East India Company?
They overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate, and built their capital on Baghdad
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
The territories divided by Genghis Khan
What are Khanates?
The system established by the Ottomans that constituted of the selection of Christian boys
What is Devshirme?
Absolute legal ownership of a person
What is Chattel Slavery?
Persian mathematician who created trigonometry, And studied star patterns.
Who is Nasir-a-Din-al-Tusi?
Triangular sails that made it possible to navigate monsoon winds.
What are Lateen Sails?
The idea that monarchs are God‘s representatives on earth.
What is Divine right
Spanish Conquistadors received land grants, Natives worked in exchange for protection
What is the Encomienda System?
Bonus!
Quick growing rice that withstood droughts and floods. It helped to increase the population in Asia.
What is Champa rice?
Bonus
Who was the wealthy emperor of Mali who made a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Who is Mansa Musa?
Bonus
Who was the Mughal ruler who contributed to the arts and built the Taj Mahal.
Who is Shah Jahan?
Bonus
the treaty that divides land between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?