1: 1200-1450
This hierarchical tenet of Confucianism (one of the 5 key relationships) spread to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
What is Filial Piety?
This faith spread along the sub- and trans-Saharan trade routes.
What is Islam?
In order to establish the legitimacy of their rule, this Chinese empire used elaborate paintings of their emperors.
What are Qing imperial portraits?
This Portuguese sailor changed the world when he arrived by boat in India. This would start the process of Europeans taking control of the Indian Ocean spice trade.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
What is the Fluyt?
What is the Khemr Empire?
This medieval Islamic traveler visited most of the Dar-al-Islam and wrote about his travels.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
In addition to using the Devshirme, the Ottoman Empire maintained its power by using this clever tactic of enlisting local leaders to help in managing the economics of the empire.
What is Ottoman tax-farming?
A food that was brought from Africa to the Americas and Caribbean along with enslaved peoples.
What is Okra?
What is Uyghur Script?
This tribal North American culture's leadership lived atop great hills overseeing a hierarchical society.
What is Cahokia?
Located in an important sea-trading route, this became a center of Islamic learning in Southeast Asia.
What is the Sultanate of Malacca?
This empire made sure to collect taxes in standardized currency that streamlined economic growth and stability.
What is the Ming Dynasty's collection of taxes in hard currency?
This middle-eastern group resisted European attempts to control trade and thus maintained their own control over local trade around the Arabian Peninsula.
Who were the Omanis?
This Islamic movement attempted, like the Bhakti Movement did for Hinduism, to add a mystical experience, to reject elite & elaborate rituals, and to open up the religious faith to all people.
What was the Sufi Movement?
A version of Buddhism named after "school of the Elder Monks" and took root in South East Asia. It is closer to the tradition teachings of Buddha.
What is Therevada Buddhism?
This crop, originating on the islands of Oceania, traveled along the Indian Ocean Trade network to Africa where it provided a huge amount of nutrition and calories.
What are bananas?
These two Islamic Empires fought over territory and control over trade routes in modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
What is the Safavid-Mughal Conflict?
A crop Indian peasants started producing to sell and export, thus bringing in more income to the peasants in India.
What is Cotton?
What is the Srivijaya Empire?
After the Mongol Empire broke up, a group of slave soldiers rose up and took control.
What is the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt?
These are two examples of Caravansari along the silk road that became major centers of cultural exchange.
What are Smarkand & Kahsgar?
This movement started by Martin Luther challenged the Catholic religion's control of Europe and ushered in new political, cultural, and social ideas.
An African ruler of Ndongo & Matamba who resisted European expansion in Africa.
Who is Ana Nzinga? (Queen Nzgina)
A Spanish economic and social system in which Spanish people were granted land and indigenous Americans to work for them.
What is the Encomienda System?