Muslims refer to these two monotheistic groups as "People of the Book"
Who are Christians and Jews?
100
Widely regarded as the first true empire because they ruled vast territories and controlled diverse populations of people.
Who are the Assyrians?
100
This system included city states such as Kilwa, Zanzibar, Aden and Gujarat and included various ethnic and religious groups.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network (Indian Ocean is acceptable)?
100
The application of reason and experimentation during the 17th and 18th centuries began to replace dogma and tradition and would eventually lead to new political perspectives.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
100
An influential defender of Amerindian rights during Spanish colonial occupation of the Americas.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
200
These two were instrumental in the diffusion of Orthodox Christianity to the Slavic (Russian) regions.
Who are Cyril and Methodius?
200
These two contemporary empires faced similar problems of corruption, over expansion, a declining economy and over reliance on mercenary armies.
What is the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty?
200
The totality of European dominated trade during the 16th to 18th centuries.
What is the Atlantic system?
200
This idea was established by the Zhou dynasty as a means of legitimizing their rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
200
Although diseases devastated the Amerindian population, the transfer of foodstuffs benefited the populations of Europe and Africa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
This South Asian system is similar to Confucianism because of its rigid social hierarchy.
What is Hindu Caste System (Hinduism is not an acceptable answer)?
300
Established a "global empire" of trade with a focus on the Indian Ocean network.
Who are the Portuguese?
300
In the 16th century Spain would import large quantities of this material and would eventually impact global trade as far as China.
What is silver?
300
16th century Europeans began to re-examine their perspectives and rearrange their secondary educational institutions according to secular Greek and Roman ideas.
What is humanism?
300
These two religious sects evolved from a fierce disagreement over the successor to the Prophet.
Who are Sunni's and Shiites?
400
This early Persian belief system served as a conceptual predecessor for later Messianic and monotheistic religions.
What is Zoroastrianism?
400
A system of control, exaction of "gifts" and recognition of political superiority used by the Aztecs, Mongols and Tang Dynasty.
What is the tributary system?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: This system discourages independent trading and manufacturing practices and is designed to enrich the Nation state by controlling the prices and quantities of imports and exports.
What is mercantilism?
400
A complicated and racist social hierarchy which placed Iberian born persons in the top positions.
What are the castas? (Encomienda is the labor system related to the castas)
400
This African group was to Africa what the Indo Europeans were to Eurasia as they migrated for similar reasons and spread their respective cultural traits to the regions they migrated to.
Who are the Bantu?
500
A major Indian religion which had a greater acceptance among non Indians than it did Indians.
What is Buddhism?
500
This specific geographic feature, dominated by the Roman Empire after the defeat of Carthage, allowed them to facilitate trade and travel throughout the region.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
The decline of this empire compelled Europeans to seek new overland and sea trade routes.
What is the Mongol Empire?
500
The Qin believed human nature to be essentially evil and warranted strict means of control and harsh punishments for crimes.
What is Legalism?
500
The pre-modern seafaring of the Chinese reached its peak during this dynasty under the leadership of the great admiral Zheng He.