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100
Empire that expanded to include territory in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa by the 1600s
What is the Ottoman Empire?
100
This type of sail helped ships to navigate successfully even in an unfavorable wind.
What is a lateen sail?
100
English explorer Henry Hudson searched unsuccessfully for this route that would allow ships to reach the Indies by sailing north of Canada.
What was the Northwest Passage?
100
The geographic region of the world in which Sikhism developed
What is South Asia?
100
The category of goods that motivated early maritime exploration in Western Europe
What is spice? / What are spices?
100
Non-Muslims paid this tax in order to live under the protection of the government in the Ottoman and Mughal empires
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What is the jizya?
200
Country awarded the most territory in the Americas by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494
What is Spain?
200
Known as Iltizam in the Ottoman Empire Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent started this new tax collection system which featured auctioning the right to collect taxes to the highest bidders.
What is tax farming?
200
Historians believe this disease to be the single biggest killer of Native Americans in the sixteenth century.
What is smallpox?
200
The ruler who built the Taj Mahal to honor his late wife and establish his legitimacy as a monarch.
Who was Emperor Shah Jahan?
200
Spanish conquistadores in South America adapted this Inca labor system to their needs for agriculture and mining work.
What is the mit'a system?
200
The casta system developed in the colonies of this Western European country from the 1500s to the 1800s.
What is Spain?
300
After 1600, the West African Asante Kingdom grew in power largely as a result of its participation in this trade.
What is the slave trade?
300
This Chinese innovation spread to South Asia and the Middle East which contributed to the development of three new empires in these regions.
What is gunpowder?
300
This crop originated in Mesoamerica but contributed to worldwide population growth after it was transferred to Europe, Africa, and Asia. It was the staple crop of the Mexica society when Europeans arrived in Mexico.
What is maize / corn?
300
This syncretic religion developed in the Caribbean region of Latin America as a combination of Christian and African beliefs and practices.
What is Vodou?
300
Growing this crop in Brazil was the primary motive for the massive importation of African slaves from the 1500s to the 1800s.
What is sugar (cane)?
300
Who were the powerful landlords who helped to administer the Mughal Empire.
What were the zamindars?
400
Name of Ottoman elite soldiers who were collected as boys through through the practiced of devshirme
Janissaries
400
Columbus used two of this type of ship on his first voyage west to find the Indies in 1492.
What is a caravel?
400
This Spanish explorer discovered a western route to Asia by sailing south of South America and across the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
400
The country where Christians were persecuted after the Tokugawa Shogun took power.
What is Japan?
400
This Dutch joint-stock trade company became one of the most successful international businesses of the 1600s and 1700s.
What was the Dutch East Indies Company?
400
The scholar elite class who were required to pass a rigorous exam on Confucian philosophy to serve in the Chinese civil service.
What is the mandarin class?
500
Animals that were used by the Songhai army unsuccessfully to win the battle of Tondibi
Bulls / Cattle
500
In the 1400s Portuguese explorers discovered and mapped the wind patterns and currents that helped them to return home more rapidly as they sailed back from West Africa. The name for this route translates to mean "turn of the sea."
What is the Volta Do Mar?
500
Indigenous to the Americas, this vector transmitted the microorganisms that cause malaria (pictured below) to Native Americans after infected Europeans and Africans arrived in Portuguese and Spanish colonies.
What are mosquitoes?
500
African Kingdom where Portuguese explorers first encountered bronze sculptures created by the indigenous people.
What is the Kingdom of Benin?
500
Indigenous to the Americas, plantations in Cuba, the Carolinas, and Virginia grew this plant as a cash crop for export to Europe and Africa
What is tobacco?
500
Caused by the slave trade this new marriage practice that developed in West Africa as a result of the imbalance of genders
What is polygamy / polygyny?
