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Confucian virtue of exhibiting the proper love and respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors.
What is filial piety?
Korea, Vietnam, and for a shorter length of time, Japan were ____ states of the early Chinese empire.
What were tributary states?
This trade network flourished under Mongol rule.
What were the Silk Roads?
This leader is widely regarded as the most inclusive and tolerant leader of the Mughal Empire.
Who was Akbar the Great?
On the journey from West Africa to the Americas, nearly 15% of enslaved people died. The journey was referred to as ______.
What was the Middle Passage?
A social hierarchy passed down through families in India for thousands of years.
What is the caste system?
The most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
This Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty is often regarded as the greatest admiral in Chinese history.
Who is Zheng He?
This Catholic missionary religious order was particularly active in attempting to spread Catholicism to China in the 1600 and 1700s
Who were the Jesuits?
This Spanish-controlled city became one of the most diverse and commercially developed places in South East Asia, largely due to the silver trade.
What is Manila?
A peasant/artisan “wisdom teacher” and Jewish mystic whose life, teachings, death, and alleged resurrection gave rise to the new religion of Christianity.
Who is Jesus?
A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment.
What is caesaropapism?
The Golden Horde was a state in the Mongol Empire. These states were called _____.
What were khanates?
In this system practiced by the Ottoman Empire, young boys (initially just from their Christian subjects) were removed from their families and trained for government or military service.
What was the devshirme system?
This crop originated in Arabia but via the Columbian Exchange, transformed Brazil and the Caribbean islands between 1450 and 1750.
What is sugar?
Chinese political ideology that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China.
This medieval empire was known as "New Rome" in the period 1200-1450.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
What was Timbuktu?
This mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian formulated the Laws of Motion and Gravity.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
This philosophy drove most European economic practices between 1450-1750.
What is mercantilism?
The body of Muslim religious scholars and chief religious authorities.
What is the ulama?
This socioeconomic group grew and benefited from the lack of European central governments in the period 1200-1450.
What was the merchant class?
This language emerged in the South Eastern coast of Africa as a result of cultural interactions.
What is Swahili?
As the Russian Empire grew in the 1600s, the government required that people in new territories pay _____, or “tribute," paid in cash or in kind.
What were yasaks?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by sea.
Who was Vasco de Gama?