Unit 1
What is a tributary system?
when a country colonized another, requiring taxes In the form of money, people, or goods
A policy in which a strong nation attempts to dominate other countries, politically, socially and economically
nationalism
Instrument used to measure the stars
astrolabe
Gunpowder empire in modern day india
Mughals
the name of the economic policy that means "hands off"
lassiez faire
Which of these east Asian nations did not have a powerful centralized government? Vietnam, China, Korea or Japan
Vietnam or Japan
The idea that white, developed countries had a duty to spread their ideas, medical innovations, and cultures to "less civilized countries"
An inn in some eastern communities that provides accomodations for caravans
caravansserai
What were the Europeans looking for when they found the americas
a faster sea route to asia
A business that operates in several different countries but started in one
transnational buisness
Why was the Dehli Sultnate despised by the Hindu population of India?
Jizya, the tax that the Dehli Sultanate required for not being Muslim
What true about African resistance to imperialism technology?
They were unsuccessful due to lack of technology innovation
Tax system used by the mughals
zamindars
What was Spain's main export from the americas?
Silver
What econmic book did Adam Smith write that shifted economics of this century
the wealth of nations
Why were the Rajput kingdoms always vulnerable?
internal fighting
English colony formed in 1600 to develop trade with the British and India
East India Company
a pardon given by the Roman catholic in return for money. This also gave freedom of sins
Indulgence
How did states like portugal, spain, and British get discovers to discover
state sponsered exploration
How is the United Fruit Company operated by the US a sign of economic imperialism
made an unfair deal which favored exports to the United States, controlled the land in south america
How are the Bhakti Movement and Sufi similar in beliefs?
both are mytical movements and focus on self reflection
Name of the treaty first signed after the first opium war with Britan and China
Treaty of Nanjing
The official spilt of the Roman Catholic church and the byzantine empire
The Great Schism
After the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate dissolved, what new Islamic empires emerged
Seljuk Empire, Mamluk Sultnate, Dehli sultanate
What were some of the main beliefs of Marxism?
owned publicly, working class taking control, stateless and classeles society