Global Tapestry
A test covering one's knowledge of Confucianism. Used to facilitate the meritocracy within the Chinese Dynasties.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
A network of ancient trade routes that connected East Asia with the Mediterranean Basin and Europe, facilitated by land. Primarily known for the exchange of goods, especially Chinese goods.
What is the Silk Road?
Elite infantry of the Ottoman Empire, known for their loyalty to the sultan, military prowess, early adoption of firearms. Composed of Christian boys taken from conquered territories, converted to Islam, and trained as soldiers. Their importance stemmed from their role in the army's expansion and their influence in Ottoman politics.
Who are the janissaries?
An Italian explorer and navigator who, under Spanish sponsorship, led voyages across the Atlantic in the late 15th century, ultimately opening the way for European colonization and global exchange with the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Paper, Movable Type, Gunpowder, and the Compass.
What are early inventions in China?
A period of European history, characterized by a renewed interest in classical learning and a flourishing of arts, sciences, and culture.
What is the renaissance?
A major trading network that connected North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa Desert. It involved the exchange of goods like gold, salt, and enslaved people between these regions. This trade was facilitated by the development of camel caravans and the spread of Islam.
What is the trans-Saharan trade?
Prominent empires in the early modern period due to their heavy reliance on firearms, particularly cannons. These empires were characterized by their centralized governments, well-organized militaries, and extensive territorial control.
What are the Gun-powder empires?
A form of imperial dominance primarily focused on controlling trade routes and establishing fortified outposts rather than establishing large, land-based colonies.
What is a trading post empire?
A quick-maturing, drought resistant crop that can allow two harvests of sixty days each per growing season. That was traded from Vietnam to China, leading to massive population growth.
What is Champa Rice?
What is feudalism?
A period of relative peace and stability across the vast Mongol Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries. This era facilitated increased trade, cultural exchange, and communication along the Silk Road.
What is Pax Mongolica?
A political and religious doctrine asserting that monarchs' authority stems from God, not from the people or their representatives.
What is the divine right of kings?
A large land ownership and labor system that existed in Spanish-speaking America. It involved large landed estates where laborers, often Indigenous people, worked under debt or other forms of coercion, effectively binding them to the land.
What is the hacienda system?
A roadside inn, historically built along trade routes, that provided shelter and rest for travelers and their animals. They were essential hubs for trade and cultural exchange along routes like the Silk Road.
What is a caravanserai?
A mandatory public service were men between the ages of 15-50 provided labor and built roads within the Inca Empire.
What is the Mit'a System?
Established by Kublai Khan, it followed the Song Dynasty and preceded the Ming Dynasty. This period marked a significant shift in Chinese history as it was the first foreign dynasty to rule over all of China.
What is the Yuan dynasty?
A religious, political, and intellectual upheaval in Europe that challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and led to the establishment of Protestantism.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
A business where ownership is divided into shares, and these shares can be bought and sold by investors. Each shareholder owns a portion of the company proportionate to the number of shares they hold.
What is joint stock company?
Work extracted from individuals against their will, through force, threats, or other forms of compulsion. This can include slavery, serfdom, debt peonage, and other systems where individuals are compelled to work with little or no recompense.
What is coerced labor?
An ethnolinguistic group whom spread across a vast area from Eastern Europe to parts of Siberia, and Anatolia with the largest concentrations in Central Asia.
Who are the Turkic peoples?
A wide spread disaster starting form the silk roads to western Europe that killed half of Europe's population. Leading to the decline of Feudalism.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
The third of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He also played a crucial role in ending the Warring States Period and establishing a period of relative peace.
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu?
Known for her powerful influence over the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and her groundbreaking role as a powerful woman in a patriarchal society. She broke with Ottoman traditions by becoming the Sultan's wife, rather than just a concubine, and was instrumental in shaping the "Sultanate of Women" period.
Who was Roxelana?
A population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
What is a diaspora?