Unit 1: Early Civilizations and Belief Systems
This East Asian philosophy focused on harmony, social order, and filial piety.
What is Confucianism?
This land-based trade network connected China to the Mediterranean.
What is the Silk Road?
The empire centered in Anatolia that used janissaries as elite soldiers.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Both Mali and the Mongol Empire profited because of their control of these.
What are trade routes?
The Hindu concept that refers to the cycle of rebirth.
What is samsara?
Camels and caravans were essential for crossing this major African trade route.
What is the Trans Saharan trade network?
The Mughal Empire became famous for religious tolerance under this ruler.
Who is Akbar?
This deadly disease wiped out up to 90 percent of Indigenous Americans after European arrival.
What is smallpox?
This agricultural innovation caused population growth in Song China.
What is champa rice or new farming tech?
This empire in West Africa grew wealthy from gold and salt trade before Mali and Songhai.
What is Ghana?
The maritime route linking East Africa, Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
The Safavid Empire practiced this major branch of Islam.
What is Shia Islam?
What labor system developed on plantations in the Americas?
What is chattel slavery?
Muslim merchants and improved ships are examples of long term changes in this oceanic network.
What is the Indian Ocean trade?
The major belief system that spread throughout South Asia through the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
These nomadic warriors expanded across Eurasia and protected trade under the Pax Mongolica.
Who are the Mongols?
Russia expanded eastward across this large region to gain fur and wealth.
What is Siberia?
What was one major effect of the Columbian Exchange on Europe?
What is population growth from new calorie rich crops?
These two American empires shared tribute systems and strong central governments.
What is Aztec and Inca?
The system used by the Chinese to justify a ruler’s authority and replace dynasties when they lost power.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A major luxury good from China that was heavily demanded across trade routes.
What is silk?
Land based empires used this system of powerful warriors or nobles who controlled land and maintained armies.
What is a tributary style hierarchy?
Which empire used trading post empire strategy to control key ports?
What is Portugal?
Luxury goods such as silk and spices continued to drive this long term pattern from 1200 to 1450.
What is Afro Eurasian trade?