Vocab
What is Domestication?
This term describes the study of how events and ideas have evolved over time.
What is change over time?
The Silk Road connected China with this region, facilitating trade and cultural exchange.
What is Europe?
The Aztecs built this grand capital city, known for its canals and floating gardens
What is Tenochtitlán?
This empire, led by Genghis Khan, created the largest continuous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
The series of wars between Christians and Muslims fought over the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
Historians use these to compare different time periods or regions.
What are historical comparisons?
This luxury good, produced in China, was one of the most sought-after items traded along the Silk Road.
What is silk?
This practice, performed by the Aztecs, was tied to their religious beliefs and meant to appease the gods.
What is human sacrifice?
This West African king, known for his extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca, helped spread Islam and wealth across Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
A floating garden built by the Aztecs
What is a Chinampas?
When analyzing a document, historians consider this to understand the broader setting in which it was created.
What is historical context?
Along with goods, the Silk Road also helped spread these, which had a major impact on societies.
What are religions and ideas?
The arrival of Europeans in the Americas led to the spread of this deadly disease, which decimated indigenous populations.
What is smallpox?
This city was crucial to the Mali empire, and was a center of trade, religion, and science.
What is Timbuktu?
An Italian Explorer who worked for the King and Queen of Spain. He was looking for the Spice Islands, but instead found a whole new world.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The difference between primary and secondary sources is that primary sources come from this perspective.
What is firsthand experience or direct observation?
This nomadic group played a key role in protecting and facilitating trade on the Silk Road.
Who were the Mongols?
This Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
This economic system, used by European colonial powers, aimed to increase national wealth by controlling trade and accumulating gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
Who is Genghis Khan?
Bias in historical sources can be caused by this factor, which influences how an author interprets events.
What is personal perspective or cultural background?
This deadly disease, spread through trade routes like the Silk Road, devastated Europe in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death?
This global exchange of plants, animals, and diseases occurred after Columbus’ voyages.
What is Columbian Exchange?
The forced transport of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic was known as this leg of the Triangular Trade.
What is the middle passage?