Unit 1: The Global Tapestry (c. 1250–c. 1450)
This Chinese dynasty revived Confucianism and the civil service exam.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This traveler’s writings describe Islamic societies across Africa and Asia.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This empire used janissaries, an elite slave-soldier force.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This explorer's 1492 voyage linked the Old and New Worlds.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This American document declared independence from Britain in 1776.
third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire. The rulers who built their capital in Baghdad after overthrowing the Umayyad caliphs. In started in 750 CE. It flourished for two centuries, but slowly went into decline with the rise to power of the Turkish army it had created, the Mamluks. In the 13th century the Mongols displaced them.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This trade network connected China with Europe through Central Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
This East Asian empire adopted Neo-Confucianism and expanded under the Qing.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This economic policy drove European colonization and emphasized a favorable balance of trade.
What is mercantilism?
After toppling the monarchy in 1792, the French Revolution gave rise to this new form of government, marking the birth of the ________.
What is the First French Republic?
a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors
What is Filial Piety?
This religion, which spread from India to Central Asia and China along the Silk Roads, was promoted by rulers like Ashoka the Great, who established missions and built stupas to support its expansion.
What is Buddhism?
Local officials in the Mughal Empire who collected taxes and maintained order.
Who are the Zamindars?
This Spanish system forced Indigenous people to labor in exchange for "protection."
What is the encomienda system?
1. He led the Haitian Revolution against French colonial rule.
2. Which revolution was the Haitian Revolution inspired by?
need both for full credit
1. Who is Toussaint Louverture?
2. What is the French Revolution (1789)?
This West African kingdom was known for its wealth and trade in gold.
What is Mali?
While often praised for stabilizing Eurasian trade routes, this 13th–14th century empire unintentionally accelerated the spread of the Black Death through its promotion of interconnectedness and the movement of armies, merchants, and messengers.
What is The Mongol Empire?
A system in the Ottoman Empire that allowed non-Muslim religious communities to have some autonomy.
What is the Millet System?
This global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases began with European exploration.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This document, inspired by Enlightenment ideas, sparked calls for rights during the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This Southeast Asian maritime empire used Mahayana Buddhism to legitimize its rule and control key Indian Ocean trade routes.
What is the Srivijaya Empire?
This city in Mali became a center of Islamic learning and commerce.
What is Timbuktu?
This Mughal ruler promoted religious tolerance and created a syncretic faith.
Who is Akbar the Great?
This company dominated Indian Ocean trade and acted like a government.
What is the British East India Company?
This 19th-century rebellion in South Asia, triggered by cultural insensitivity and resentment toward British imperial policies, is often debated by historians as either the first Indian war of independence or a mutiny driven by local grievances. Analyze how Enlightenment ideas may or may not have influenced this uprising.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion (or Indian Rebellion of 1857)?