Unit 1: Global Tapestry 1
Hindu structure for maintaining social order
What is the Caste system?
This made agriculture more efficient in Medieval Europe
What was the three-field system?
Chinese dynasty that restored the civil service exam and oversaw proto-industrialization
What was the Song Dynasty?
Inns along trade routes where travelers could trade, rest, and replenish
What were caravanserai?
Elite Ottoman army composed of enslaved boys from Christain communities
What was the Janissary corps?
Peoples who migrated across Sub-Saharan Africa between c. 1000 - c. 1500 CE
Who were the Bantu peoples?
Incan forced-labor system
What was the mit'a?
Wealthy West African kingdom founded by Sundiata
What was the Mali Empire?
Period in Eurasian history marked by revived trade on the Silk Roads
What is the Pax Mongolica?
Counter-Reformation order created to stop the spread of Protestantism in Europe
Who are the Jesuits?
Confucian virtue emphasizing duty, respect, and obedience to parents, elders, and ancestors
What is filial piety?
Baghdad center of learning in the Abbasid Empire
What was the House of Wisdom?
Limited the power of the English king beginning in 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
Three Chinese technological innovations that helped trade networks to expand and flourish c. 1200-c.1450
What are the magnetic compass, rudder, and Chinese junk?
Settlement to the Thirty Years War that established the concept of national sovereignty
Peace of Westphalia
Tax on non-Muslims in Dar al-Islam
What is the jizya?
Mystical group (comparable to the Sufis) that helped to spread Hinduism
What was the Bhakti Movement?
The Mamluks and Seljuks belonged to this extensive ethnic community that originated in central Asia
Who were the Turkic peoples?
Three notable travelers in Afro-Eurasia c. 1200-c.1450 who wrote about their encounters with diverse societies
Who are Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Margery Kempe?
Russian ruler who expanded the country's borders eastward in the second half of the 16th century
Who was Ivan IV (The Terrible)?
European country ruled by the Umayyads
What is Spain?
South Asian kingdom that was founded by Muslim brothers who reconverted to Hinduism
What was the Vijayanagara Empire?
Celebrated Muslim scholar of astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and law in the 13th century
Who was Nasir al-Din al-Tusi?
Thriving South Asian trade city on the southwest coast that was a hub for the spice trade and diasporic communities?
What is Calicut?
Officers appointed by the Mughal emperors to collect taxes
Who were the zamindars?