Unit 1
The capital city of the Aztec empire in the middle of a lake
What is Tenochtitlan?
Trade routes throughout Eurasia (mainly traded Silk)
What are the Silk Roads?
Granted a person absolution from the punishment for sin.
What are Indulgences?
Arrangements through which servants were contracted to work for a specified period of years in exchange for passage
What is Indentured Servitude?
The sacred Scriptures of Islam
What is the Quran?
A tax to all non Muslims
What is the Jizya?
A plague that was introduced to Europe via trading routes. Broke out between 1347 and 1351. 25 million people died. Caused economic activity to decline.
What is the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)?
Also known as Ivan the terrible, was crowned tsar in 1547, he immediately set about to expand the Russian border eastward.
European theory that required to have government involvement. Countries set policy designed to sell as many goods they could offer to other countries and to buy as few as possible from other countries.
What is Mercantilism?
The place where the earliest civilizations emerged
What is Mesopatamia?
A mystical Hindu movement that taught the importance of emotions
What is the Bhakti movemen?
Thriving city states along the east coast of Africa. Traders sold ivory, gold, and slaves
What are the Swahili city states?
The most famous group of the devshirme. Elite forces in the Ottoman army.
Who are the Janissaries?
Empires based on sea travel. Includes Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, and Holland.
What are Maritime Empires?
When the Maori people united together but lost to the British in 1872
What are The New Zealand Wars?
The city where the House of Wisdom is
What is Baghdad?
The mongol leader better known as Ghengis Kahn. He was very ruthless and went on many conquests.
Who is Temujin?
Dynasty in China that overthrew the Yuan dynasty in 1368. Rulers managed to stabilize east Asia for nearly 300 years.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
Those born in America of Spanish origin
What are the creoles (criollos)?
The man who provided the foundation for capitalism
Who is Adam Smith?
Granted tracts of land in Feudal Europe
What are Fiefs?
Means Mongolian peace. Period of peace in Eurasian history between the 13th and 14th centuries.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
Also called the society of Jesus, it was a religious order founded in 1540 the oppose the spread of Protestantism.
Who are the Jesuits?
Ruler in south-central Africa that resisted to Portugal
Who is Ana Nzinga?
The cure for the disease of suffering in Buddhism
What is the Eightfold Path?