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This major religion originated in the 7th century and significantly influenced the regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia by 1200 CE.
What is Islam?
100
This famous network of land-based trade routes connected China to Europe, facilitating the exchange of silk, spices, and other goods.
What is the Silk Road?
100
This agreement in 1494 divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
100
This joint-stock company, founded in 1602, became a powerful force in global trade, acting as a quasi-governmental organization with the ability to mint coins, establish colonies, and wage war.
Question:
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
100
This phenomenon, which emerged in the early stages of industrialization, resulted in the creation of labor systems that were heavily reliant on factory work, including the exploitation of women and children. It was often criticized for leading to poor working conditions, long hours, and the absence of labor rights, despite fueling economic growth.
Question:
What is the Factory System?
100
Which Empire?
Inca
200
This Chinese dynasty, ruling from 960–1279, is known for advancements like gunpowder, paper money, and the use of Confucian principles in governance.
What is the Song Dynasty?
200
This innovation, developed in China and spread to other regions through trade, revolutionized maritime navigation in the Indian Ocean.
What is the magnetic compass?
200
This Japanese policy during the Tokugawa Shogunate limited foreign influence by restricting trade to a single port, Nagasaki, and prohibiting most interactions with outsiders.
Question:
What is sakoku or the closed country policy?
200
This agricultural product, introduced to Europe from the Americas, became one of the most profitable crops of the 16th and 17th centuries, fueling the rise of plantation economies in the Americas.
Question:
What is sugar?
200
This 19th-century reform movement in Japan sought to modernize the country by adopting Western-style political institutions, technology, and military practices while preserving Japan's unique cultural heritage.
Question:
What is the Meiji Restoration?
200
Emperor Akbar (Mughal)
300
This West African empire flourished due to the Trans-Saharan trade of gold and salt and reached its height under the rule of Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
300
This Central Asian empire facilitated trade across Eurasia during the 13th and 14th centuries and created a period of stability known as this
Mongols, "Pax Mongolica."
300
The Mughal Emperor Akbar is known for promoting this policy of governance, which included tolerance for different religions, the abolition of the jizya tax on non-Muslims, and inviting diverse religious leaders to discuss theology.
Question:
What is religious syncretism or policy of tolerance?
300
This powerful empire, which ruled much of Southeast Asia from the 14th to the 17th century, controlled a key maritime trade network connecting India, China, and the Malay Archipelago.
Question:
What is the Malacca Sultanate?
300
This term refers to the mass migration of people, especially during the 19th century, as a result of industrialization, population growth, and urbanization, which created a need for labor in factories and mines.
Question:
What is the "Great Migration"?
300
Which Empress?
Catherine the Great
400
This labor system, prominent in the Andean region, required communities to contribute work to the state and was utilized by the Inca Empire.
What is the mit'a system?
400
This West African city became a major center for trade, education, and Islamic scholarship during the Mali Empire’s height.
What is Timbuktu?
400
This Chinese dynasty, established after the fall of the Yuan, reinstated Confucian civil service exams and undertook large maritime expeditions under Admiral Zheng He before turning inward.
Question:
What is the Ming Dynasty?
400
n the 16th century, this religious movement began as a challenge to the Catholic Church's practices, leading to a series of wars and divisions in Europe. The movement was sparked by Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
Question:
What is the Protestant Reformation?
400
This Chinese reform movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought to modernize China’s political and economic systems by adopting Western ideas. It was led by intellectuals who recognized the weakness of the Qing Dynasty but was ultimately suppressed.
Question:
What is the Self-Strengthening Movement?
400
Zheng He
500
This major trade network connected the Indian Ocean to East Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia and facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and technology.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
500
This 14th-century traveler’s detailed accounts of the Dar al-Islam provide historians with invaluable insights into the interconnectedness of Afro-Eurasian trade and the cultural diffusion of Islam, but his critiques of regional practices reveal his conservative Islamic perspective.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
500
This form of tax, implemented by the Ottoman Empire, allowed wealthy elites to collect taxes in exchange for a fixed payment to the government, leading to inefficiencies and corruption over time.
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What is the timar system (tax farming)?
500
This system, which was primarily used in the Spanish colonies, involved the forced labor of Indigenous people to work on plantations and in mines in exchange for supposed protection and Christianization.
Question:
What is the encomienda system?
500
The Rebellion of 1857 was a significant uprising against the British East India Company, caused by several factors including the introduction of new cartridges rumored to be greased with cow and pig fat. The rebellion led to the dissolution of the Company and direct British rule in India.
Question:
What was the Sepoy Rebellion?
500
Where in the world?
Kilwa City State