Unit 1
This rice was known for being drought resistant and having two harvest in one year.
What is Champa Rice
This land trade route connected three continents.
What is Silk Road
This Muslim state lasted from 1526 to 1857 and was located in India.
What is the Mughal Empire
This passage was to bring slaves from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage
This man created the theory of the Social Contract.
This tax was a tax on non-Muslims.
What is Jizya Tax
This was similar to a modern hotel on the Silk Road.
What is Caravanserai
What is Gunpowder Empires
This explorer is credited with discovering the Americas for Europeans.
Who is Christopher Columbus
This is the idea that woman should be able to vote.
What is woman's suffrage
This means "the world of Islam".
What is Dar al-Islam
This group of people conquered most of Asia and had four Khanates.
What is the Mongols
The system of taking Christian boys and converting them to Islam.
What is Devshirme
This explorer opened a school in Portugal to promote explorers.
Who is Prince Henry
What is capitalism.
This test tested if a person could gain a job in Imperial China.
What is the Civil Service Exam
These were the two major trading cities on the Silk Road.
What is Kashgar and Samarkand
An elite Ottoman soldier trained through the Devshirme system.
This explorer is the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
This man created the ideas of Communism and Socialism in his book The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx.
What impact did the Civil Service Exam have on the the culture of the Song Dynasty in China?
The exam allowed people of all economic levels to work in the government. This is different to the previous system of rich people getting the job due to heredity. This caused the government to be more efficient because the officials were now educated. This lead to a more efficient and equal society.
Identify and describe two effects of the Silk Road.
One effect was the expansion of new markets and the development in religious conversions. The need for merchants to find new markets lead to the diffusion of products and ideas. The silk road allowed religions to travel chief among them Buddhism. This lead to the society of the time becoming more educated on different cultures and ideas.
What were indulgences and why did they upset Martin Luther?
They were written letters the church would sell to forgive you of your sins. These upset Martin Luther because he thought it made the religion to much about money. This was one of the main problems Martin Luther addressed in the 95 theses. This also lead him to separate from the Catholic Church.
Define Mercantilism and explain one example of a Mercantilist policy.
Mercantilism is a state driven economy that focuses on gaining precisions metals through trade. An example of a mercantilist policy would be putting tariffs on foreign good to promote the domestic market. This strategy was used also to slight economic rivals of a country to hinder their trade. This allowed the country to gain more wealth through domestic trade.
What is the difference between skilled and unskilled labor? How would this influence someone's decision to support Capitalism vs. Communism?
An unskilled laborer is a job that requires little training and a skilled laborer is a worker with technical training such as a plumber or electrician. An unskilled laborer is more likely to support Communism and a skilled is more likely to support Capitalism. This is best shown how poorer less educated countries with a small middle class tend to become communist. Countries like Vietnam and China have shown this with a large unskilled laborer class causing them to become communist.