Unit 1
This Chinese Dynasty placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and arts other than military.
What is the Song Dynasty?
A system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods
What is the Silk Road?
This Islamic state was founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
An exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old World and the New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Chinese philosophy shows the way to ensure a stable government and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct.
What is Confucianism?
Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north
What is the Compass?
Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.
What is the Samurai?
A system where the workers were forced to work based on threats, pressure, or intimidation.
What is coerced (coercive) labor?
The idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
What is the Divine Right? (Divine Right of Kings)
This academic center for research and translation of foreign texts was established in Baghdad in 830 C.E. during the Abbasid Caliphate.
What is the House of Wisdom?
A group of traveling merchants and animals
What is a caravan?
America's largest Native American empire. Region from present-day Columbia to Chile and eastwart to northern Argentina.
Who are the Inca?
The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements in order to control the people and resources
What is colonization?
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
What is Mercantilism?
The 1,100-mile waterway in China that linked the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers.
What is the Grand Canal?
The period of approximately 150 years of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire.
What is the Pax Mongolica (Mongolia)?
This is the unification or blending of opposing people, ideas, or practices, frequently in the realm of religion.
What is syncretism?
This Dutch-chartered joint-stock company controlled the spice trade in the East Indies.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
A movement in religious philosophy in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Buddhism.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
This Moroccan Muslim scholar was the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands.
Who is Ibn Batutta?
He was the most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.'
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent
Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of conquered non-Christian people. They compelled slaves to work for them in exchange for food and shelter.
What is the Encomienda system?
Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility.
What is Versailles?