Political/Governance
What is the term to describe the time of relative peace under mongol rule where the Silk road was protected and trade flourished?
Pax mongolica
What was trade system called that in the time period of 1450-1750 that spread food, animals, and disease between the Americas and Europe?
The columbian exchange
What innovation was the floating gardens in the Aztecs?
Chinampas
What was the disease from china that spread through fleas, rodents, and mongol land trade routes?
Black Plague
What society came from bantu speaking people?
The swahili people.
Babur’s conquests in Northern India and expansion led to the creation of what empire?
Mughal Empire
What was a pass that all merchant vessels were required to purchase from portuguese authorities.
Cartaz
What mode of transportation was used to travel through the trans saharan trade network?
Camels
What were the 1000 miles linking yellow river with North and Yangzi in south?
The Grand Canal
What religion was a unifying force of Russian czars and people?
Orthodox Christianity
What was the name of the isolated land estates exercised by warrior elites in a system of manorialism?
Feudalism
Term used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for luxury goods of the East.
Silver Drain
What warfare technology helped Land based Empires thrive in the time period 1400-1750 CE?
Gunpowder
What were trade routes across Africa called?
Sand Roads
In New Spain, what were the paintings that demonstrated people’s place in society and classes called?
Casta System
What is the French King that used absolutism to rule that referred to himself as the Sun King?
What was the system of labor service for conquered people to pay tribute to the Incas called?
Mita system
What invention increased literacy in 1450-1750?
the Gutenberg Printing Press
When the Europeans colonized, what environmental impact did they make?
Deforestation, soil erosion
What were free communities of former slaves in regions of South America called?
Maroon societies
Define Divine Right
Monarchs received power from God, and because of this had control over everything. Could create a more efficient and harmonious kingdom
The nickname used in early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and elite status.
Soft Gold
What is the technology that was invented by china to make ships more stable?
Stern Rudder
What was the war between Catholics and Protestants; was extremely destructive.
30 Year War
The global spread of African people via slave trade; created race issues.
African Diaspora