The Global Tapestry
This religion emerged in the sixth century BCE in South Asia. Neither polytheistic nor monotheistic, it emphasized personal pathways to enlightenment, rather than gods and the authority of a priestly class.
Buddhism
This crop, native to Peru, provided Western and Northern Europe with a new source of calories, feeding European people and the armies that extended European empires into Africa and Asia.
Potato
This publication by Diderot helped introduce new ideas into French society and arguably paved the way for the French Revolution.
Diderot's 1750 Encyclopedia
Military rulers of Japan who established a "closed door" policy, which slowed Japan's technological development.
Tokugawa Shogunate
TEA is the acronym for the process you should use in answering SAQs. What do the letters in TEA stand for?
Topic, Evidence, and Analysis
This philosophical system originated in China and emphasized the importance of social hierarchies and loyalty, including relationships between ruler and subject. It argued that these relationships reflected the cosmic relationship between Heaven and Earth.
Confucianism
More profitable than any other during the early years of the Columbian Exchange, this crop was cultivated in slavery-based plantation complexes by the Portuguese in Brazil, the Spanish in Cuba, the British in Jamaica, and the French in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti).
Sugar
Primary author of the US Constitution who used Enlightenment ideals to frame the structure of government.
James Madison
This New York garment factory burst into flames in 1911, thus becoming the site of the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
This historical reasoning process involves describing similarities and/or differences between different historical developments or processes.
Comparison
This city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople
This phenomenon occurs when different belief systems from two or more places blend to create something new, as was the case after 1500 when the Spanish attempted to convert Mexico City's indigenous population to Christianity.
Religious syncretism
Revolutionary leader, inspired by Enlightenment thought; considered a founding father of many Latin American nations.
Simon Bolivar
Coined by Karl Marx, this term refers to the entire class of wage workers who can only earn money by selling their labor.
The Proletariat
This historical reasoning process involves describing the causes and/or effects of a specific historical development or process.
Causation
This West African ruler is known for being so wealthy that he destabilized the economy of Egypt by spending great amounts of gold there while on his way to Mecca.
Mansa Musa
This Native American people arguably established a terrestrial empire in southwestern North America through their mastery of horses.
The Comanche
The focusing of citizens' loyalty on the "nation"; played a major role in world conflicts & independence movements.
Nationalism
George Macartney traveled as ambassador to this powerful state in an effort to open trade.
China
This historical reasoning process describes patterns of sameness or transformation over time.
Continuity and Change
This commodity was harvested in England, processed in Flanders, and served as the foundation of England's medieval economy.
Wool
The mining of this metal greatly enhanced European access to Chinese markets after 1500.
Silver
This West African leader turned to Islam as a means of resisting slavery. He rallied many other vulnerable communities and launched a revolution that created one of the largest states in West African history. Known as the Sokoto Caliphate, it existed between 1804 and 1903.
Uthman dan Fodio
A French mathematician and physicist, she was one of the few women given access to scientific communities during the Enlightenment and became famous for her French translation of and commentary on Newton’s work.
Émilie du Châtelet
On LEQs, this historical thinking point is best earned in your introduction prior to stating your thesis.
Context