Unit 1: Pre-Columbian Americas
Unit 2: Pre-Modern Africa
Unit 3: Early Modern Asia
Unit 4: The Atlantic World
Random
100
Advanced Mesoamerican civilization that accurately calculated the length of the year, invented the most complex writing system in the Americas, and invented the concept of "0".
The Maya
100
This king of Mali was perhaps the richest man of all time.
Mansa Musa
100
He unified Japan under one shogunate; his heirs would isolate Japan from the rest of the world during the Edo Period.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
100
This was the first modern European to land in what we now call North and South America; This Italian navigator stumbled into the Americas while searching for a sea route to Asia for Spain.
Christopher Columbus / Cristoforo Colon / Cristobal Colon
100
The two most important New World (North and South American) crops; the introduction of these, as well as other crops, helped double the population of the Old World (Africa, Europe, Asia)
Maize and Potatoes
200
Capital of the Aztec Empire; built on top of lake Texcoco; modern day Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
200
This kingdom in modern day Ethiopia had connections to Rome, Greece, Arabia, and India.
Aksum/Axum
200
This Chinese explorer was funded by the Ming Dynasty; he sailed as far as east Africa.
Zheng He
200
He was the last independent ruler of the Mexica (Aztecs); killed by his own people for not taking a strong-enough approach against the Spanish conquistadores.
Moctezuma / Montezuma II
200
60-90% of the Native American population was killed after Old World diseases such as smallpox were introduced to the New World. This part of the Columbian Exchange was called the ____ _____.
Great Dying
300
This is the language of the Inca Empire; the Inca required all conquered peoples to learn it in order to unify their empire.
Quechua
300
Under Mansa Musa, this African city became an important capital of trade and learning.
Timbuktu
300
This emperor was born a peasant; after climbing the ranks of the Chinese military, he led a rebellion that drove the Mongols out of China; He established the Ming Dynasty.
Hongwu
300
Spanish conquistador responsible for the conquest of Mexico.
Hernan Cortes
300
In the colonial Latin America, this was a person of mixed indigenous and Spanish ancestry.
Mestizo
400
One of the few Maya codices that survived the Spanish conquest, it tells the Maya story of creation.
Popul Vuh
400
This kingdom was the first to make contact with the Portuguese in 1472, and will be the first to engage in the slave trade.
Benin
400
These two Japanese arts (this includes theater, music, and writing) flourished after the Tokugawa Shogunate isolated Japan from the rest of the world.
Kabuki Theater, Haiku Poetry, Woodblock Printing
400
Spanish conquistador responsible for the conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru.
Francisco Pizarro
400
This Native American leader helped drove the Spanish out of what is now New Mexico for 11 years.
Popé
500
Name of the "feathered serpent" worshipped by Mesoamericans, including the Aztecs and Toltecs.
Quetzalcoatl
500
This language was formed as a consequence of Arab-speaking merchants interacting with Bantu-speaking merchants in East Africa.
Swahili
500
The Ming Dynasty had to stop funding Zheng He's voyages of exploration due to raids from northern nomadic tribes--this one eventually took over the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty.
Manchu
500
This former slave wrote about his experiences as a child slave, and then later a slave in the Royal Navy; his book became one of the most popular of the time and was central to early abolitionist movements.
Olaudah Equiano
500
The biological exchange between the Old and New Worlds
The Columbian Exchange