Unit 1
A drought resistant food that was popular in China and other parts of East Asia.
What is champa rice?
A trade route that stretched across the continent of Asia and spread products, religion, and diseases.
What was the Silk Road?
A gunpowder empire that conquered North India and helped oversea trade flourish.
What was the Mughal Empire?
The disease that wiped out the Aztecs, Incas, and other native populations living in the Americas.
What is smallpox?
The National Assembly wrote this document after the Estates General meeting sided with the First and Second Estate, not the Third Estate that represented the majority of the population.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
A cultural tradition that was common in East Asia and its main belief was respecting your elders.
What is filial piety?
A new invention that was popular with sailors as it helps them find the position of the sun and North Star.
What was the astrolabe?
The transfer of diseases, plants, animals, products, and people between Native Americans and Europeans.
The Columbian Exchange
This African empire became powerful by using gold to trade for firearms which they would use to raid villages and collect captives as slaves.
What was the Asante Empire?
The British East India Company began to slowly introduce this drug into China to gain free trade with Chinese merchants and British influence in China.
The richest man in the world at the time, destroying local economies due to passing out so much gold.
Who was Mansa Musa?
The Mongols overthrew this Chinese dynasty, setting up the Yuan dynasty.
What was the Song Dynasty?
A movement that was sparked after the Bubonic Plague and believed in salvation in Christian and reforms in the Catholic Church.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
This war resulted in the decision that the British could take over French land.
A new invention that separated cotton seeds from fiber, which helped the textile industry take off.
What is the cotton gin?
The largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
Who are the Incas?
A government policy introduced by the Mongols that stated you could travel safely within their empire.
The Ottoman empire used this group to recruit soldiers(mainly Christian boys) and to oversee provincial rulers.
A period in Japan where they were ruled by shoguns, which restored order and unity to Japan through strict rule.
What was Tokugawa Japan?
This process in Britain where public land was bought and closed off by rich people, which resulted in more poverty as poor people had nowhere to grow food and farm.
An African state that was ruled by slave soldiers and saved holy Islamic places from the Mongols.
What is the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt?
A Pre-Columbian empire that lived in the Moche valley near the Pacific Ocean and had complex irrigation systems.
What was the Chimú Empire?
The line the Pope drew to separate Portugal and Spain's oversea territory.
What was the Line of Demarcation?
A labor system in the Incan Empire where men would have to perform a certain amount of labor per year that the Spani would later take inspiration from.
What was the Mit'a system?