Unit 1 (1200-1450)
Identify TWO agricultural achievements from anywhere in the world during this period.
What is Champa Rice, Terrace Farming, Chinampas, Waru Waru?
Identify ONE technological innovation that facilitated trade during this period.
What is compass, rudder, astrolabe, lateen sail, yoke, saddle, astronomical maps....?
This technology was responsible for the spread of land-based empires.
What is gunpowder?
This racial hierarchical structure was established in the Spanish Americas.
What is the Casta system?
This philosopher helped to establish Chinese cultural identity.
Who is Confucius?
Identify ONE technological/commercial item produced in China during this period.
What is Porcelain, Steel, Gunpowder, Paper, Block Printing, Compass?
Key locations for rest, replenishment, and conducting trade along the Silk Road.
What is Caravanserai?
This technology was responsible for the spread of Reformation ideas.
What is the Gutenberg printing press?
Identify ONE technology that facilitated the establishment of maritime empires.
What is the carrack, caravel, fluyt, nau, sextant, astronomical maps, astrolabe, etc...?
This figure a.k.a. Temujin, was responsible for uniting the largest empire in world history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
What is the Abbasid Empire?
These urban centers were famous for the development of a syncretic language.
What are the Swahili city-states?
This system was used to administer Christian subjects in the Ottoman Empire and for military expansion.
What is the Devshirme system?
This group took over the Portuguese trading post empire in the 17th century.
What is the British or Dutch East India Company.
This Muslim eunuch was responsible for the spread of Chinese prestige throughout Asia
Who is Zheng He?
The Siege of Caffa was a pivotal event that led to this transferring into Europe.
What is the Black Death?
This form of communication allowed for effective organization and logistics throughout the Mongol Empire.
What is the "pony express"?
Russian Imperial expansion was funded from profits from the trade of this good.
What are furs?
This palace was an example of architecture being used to establish legitimacy and control over nobles.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This religious leader believed in predestination and challenged the Catholic Church.
Who is John Calvin?
This group was responsible for the spread of metalworking, agriculture, and language through sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Bantu?
This 15th century Islamic kingdom was a powerhouse of West Africa.
What is Songhai Kingdom?
This group was the Shia nemesis of Suleyman I.
What is the Safavid Empire?
This treaty ended the 30 Years War and established the "modern" European diplomatic system.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This was the most powerful European monarch of the period, ruling territories from Iberia, to the low countries, and into Galicia.
Who is Charles V?