Unit 5: Empires in the East
What was the major trade route that connected China to the west?
The Silk Road
Who created a complex calendar with both solar and sacred (religious) calendars?
The Maya
Who united Germanic tribes in western Europe and was named emperor by the Pope?
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth (rebirth of learning)
What 3 areas made up the Triangle Trade?
Europe, Africa, the Americas
Who united the Mongols and conquered most of China and central Asia?
Genghis Khan
Tenochtitlán was the capital of what Mesoamerican civilization?
Aztecs
Put these groups in order of rank/status in the Middle Ages feudal system: serfs, lords, king, knights
King - Lords - Knights - Serfs
What was Johannes Gutenberg known for?
Inventing the printing press
What is the name for Spanish explorers who wanted to conquer New World lands for gold?
Conquistadors
What was the name of the code that the Japanese samurai followed?
Bushido
What were chinampas?
Floating gardens in the Aztec empire
What was the name of the code that the knights of the Middle Ages followed?
Chivalry
Who wrote the 95 Theses in the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
What was the Middle Passage?
The "middle" part of the Triangle Trade - the journey of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas
What is the name of Japan's earliest religion, meaning "way of the gods" with nature gods and goddesses
Shinto
Who had a 14,000 mile long road that connected its empire?
Inca
The Crusades were a series of wars to regain what?
Control of the Holy Land (Jerusalem/the Middle East)
Who painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper?
Leonardo da Vinci
What was the French and Indian War fought over?
Land disputes in the New World between the French and the British
What does the term Pax Mongolica mean?
"Mongol Peace"; a period where the Mongols gave safe passage for trade caravans, travelers, and missionaries
What were the four regions of North America that native people lived in?
Who fought against each other in the Hundred Years' War?
What was the Roman Inquisition?
Trials to charge people with heresy
What is the name for the economic system where a nation tries to become wealthy through trade? (This emerged during the age of exploration)
Mercantilism