Unit 1
A large Chinese ship used to transport mass amounts of goods across the Indian Ocean trade route?
What is a Junk
What did the merchants in the Indian ocean have to master in order to cross the ocean timely and safely
Monsoon
What revolution did Martin Luther start?
What is the Protestant Reformation
What is a Market-based economic system with limited government involvement?
Mixed economy
Which two resources did Belgium seek out during its imperialization of the congo
What is Rubber, ivory
A fast-maturing, drought-resistant crop that originated in China?
What is Champa Rice
Along the silk road name this disease that killed many across the world and almost a third of Europe?
Black Death
Blood tax where the ottoman empire would take Christian boys as tax. Who were these boys?
Who are Devshirme?
What is the power of consumers to decide what gets produced?
Consumer sovereignty
What were three significant cash crops that motivated European imperialists to expand their territory and find large plots of fertile land?
what is Sugar, tobacco, rubber, cotton, coffee
The Grand Canal in Song China ran over which rivers?
Yellow River, Yangzi river
What was the effect on European work norms after the black plague?
High wages for the lower class
What sect of Islam was the ottoman empire?
What is Sunni Islam
What economical system was associated with capitalism?
Market economy
What caused the spread of cholera in urban areas?
close distances between people and lack of sanitization
What was one modification that Islamic people made to Chinese invented rockets?
Made them fly with more accuracy
What is Ghegis khan original name?
Who is Temüjin Borjigin
Name 2 ways rulers legitimize and consolidated power?
Creation of bureaucratic elites and military professionals, use of religious ideas, art and monumental architecture, and Systems for tax or revenue collection
what did adam smith believe about economics?
the economy is best without governmental involvement
What was the most significant reason for the European imperialism of Africa?
Agriculture/fertile land
What were three major technologies that were used to assist mariners of the Indian Ocean route?
Lateen sail, astrolabe, magnetic compass
What is the difference between land-based routes and sea-based routes in terms of the kinds of goods they carry
Land-based - Expensive items
Sea-based - Bulk items and sometimes expensive items as well
To make sure that everybody thinks and believes the same things
What did Karl Marx believe about economics?
He believed that cost should be relative to labor hours.
The artificially made Suez Canal connected which two bodies of water?
Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea