Mughal India
This traditional social system in India divided people into classes such as priests, warriors, and merchants.
What is the caste (varna) system?
This belief system taught harmony with nature and living according to “the Way.”
What is Daoism (Taoism)?
This native Japanese belief focuses on nature spirits called kami.
What is Shinto?
This deadly 14th-century plague killed millions across Europe.
What was the Black Death?
During the Scientific Revolution, thinkers emphasized careful thought and evidence, using this approach to understand the world.
What is logic and reasoning?
Understanding this belief system helped Mughal rulers like Akbar govern a religiously diverse empire in India.
What is Hinduism?
This Confucian-based system selected government officials through education and testing.
What are the civil service exams?
This Tokugawa policy limited foreign trade and banned most European influence.
What is isolationism?
This powerful banking family used wealth to sponsor Renaissance artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
Who were the Medici family?
Copernicus first found this proposal that the Sun was a the center of the universe.
This empire successfully ruled much of northern India using strong armies, centralized government, and Persian-influenced culture.
What was the Mughal Empire?
This value of respect and obedience to parents was central to Confucian society.
The Tokugawa shoguns forced daimyo to live in Edo part-time and leave family behind to ensure loyalty. What was this system called?
What is the hostage system?
This English king broke from the Catholic Church to create the Church of England.
Who was Henry VIII?
Using a telescope, this scientist observed Jupiter’s moons and supported heliocentrism and challenged the church.
Who was Galileo?
This Mughal ruler expanded the empire and promoted religious tolerance among Hindus and Muslims.
Who was Akbar the Great?
Confucianism taught that rulers should govern through this quality rather than force.
What is moral virtue or morality?
In this system, samurai served daimyo, who were ruled by a shogun with the emperor as a figurehead.
What is feudalism?
This reformer argued that salvation came through faith alone and challenged Church authority.
Who was Martin Luther?
Enlightenment thinkers believed governments should be based on reason and protect these.
What are natural rights?
This long-term consequence of Mughal India’s openness to trade.
What was European colonization of India?
This Ming dynasty admiral led massive naval voyages across the Indian Ocean.
This Tokugawa policy brought peace and stability but left Japan vulnerable to Western pressure later.
What was isolationism (sakoku)?
This movement focused on classical learning and the potential of human achievement.
What is humanism?
Name two items that helped spread new scientific and political ideas across Europe.
Telescope, Microscope, Printing Press, etc.