The Global Tapestry
Tang and Song practice of wrapping a young girl's feet so tightly the bones would not grow naturally. Seen as a sign of beauty.
What is foot binding?
Knowledge of these seasonal wind patterns aided sailors in the Indian Ocean.
What are the Monsoon Winds?
Where did the name “Boxers” come from?
A secret martial arts society.
What three things did Enlightenment thinker John Locke define as natural rights?
Name the three estates.
A fast-ripening and drought-resistant strain of rice from Vietnam that led to a huge population boom in China.
What is Champa Rice?
This Chinese explorer dominated Indian Ocean seafaring in the late 1300's and early 1400's.
Who is Zheng He?
What part did Christian missionaries play in the rebellion?
What were the two main parties at war with each other during the English Civil War?
Why did King Louis XVI call for the Estates General to assemble?
He needed money to cover war debts from France's support of the American Revolution and a declining economy.
This inexpensive and efficient internal waterway extended over 3,000 miles and was extremely important in distributing food throughout China.
What is the Grand Canal?
After the death of Genghis Khan the empire was divided into 4 territories called________.
What are Khanates?
What were the Boxers fighting against?
Foreign occupation
What did Parliament most want from the king?
More power and say in the government.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
The deputies of the Third Estate, realizing that in any attempt at reform they would be outvoted by the two privileged orders, the clergy and the nobility, formed, on June 17, 1789 a National Assembly.
This group of enslaved peoples seized control of Egypt in 1250 establishing this new Sultanate.
What is the Mamluk Sultanate?
This city in the Mali Empire accumulated great wealth and became a center for Muslim life in the region.
What is Timbuktu?
Why did the strength of the Boxers increase in northern China?
Who were the Roundheads?
Who led the Committee for Public Safety during the Reign of Terror?
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Bureaucratic expansion in China led to the emergence of this new social class comprised mainly of landowners who had expanded their wealth.
What is the scholar gentry?
These two cities located along the silk roads became thriving centers of trade.
What is Kashgar and Samarkand?
What kinds of things did the Boxers do in Bejing that caused foreign countries to react by sending their military to capture Bejing?
Who were the Cavaliers?
The military forces loyal to the king.
What French document proclaimed liberty, equality, the inviolability of property, and the right to resist oppression?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Buddhist doctrines combined with elements of Daoist traditions created this new hybrid religion.
What is Zen Buddhism?
In the 13th century cities in northern Germany and Scandanavia formed this commercial alliance.
An international force of 19,000 was assembled to bring order to China during the Boxer Rebellion. Name one of the two countries that sent the most troops.
Which leader of the Roundheads declared himself "Lord Protector."
Oliver Cromwell
Following the Reign of Terror, executive power was placed in the hands of five men called what?
The constitution of the year III, which the National Convention had approved, placed executive power in a Directory of five members and legislative power in two chambers, the Council of Ancients and the Council of the Five Hundred (together called the Corps Législatif).
12th century Hindu religious movement with an emphasis on traditional teachings rather than studying texts and performing rituals.
What is the Bhakti Movement?
At just 21 years old this Muslim scholar set out to see the world he had read about, years later he would be known as one of the greatest Muslim explorers of all time.
Who is Ibn-Battuta?
Who paid reparations and who received the reparation payments?
After extensive discussions, a protocol was finally signed in September 1901, ending the hostilities and providing for reparations to be made to the foreign powers by the Chinese government.
The Glorious Revolution brought whom to the throne of England?
The dysfunction of the Directory led to the authoritarian dictatorship of whom?
Napoleon Bonaparte.