China
Lead to explosion in Chinese population.
Champa rice
What three major religions are in India?
Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism
Wandering mercenary
Ronin
What was the renaissance a "rebirth" of?
- Greek/Roman ideas about art, philosophy, architecture, etc.
- Secular values
Where did Columbus believe he had landed when he reached the Americas?
The Indies/Asia
Respect and worship of parents and ancestors.
Filial Piety
Who brought Islam to India?
The Turks
What city-state gained items from the tribute lists in Aztec society?
Tenochtitlan
What is Humanism
- belief in the potential of human beings, particularly individuals
- secular movement
Who was the first to sail around Africa to reach India?
Vasco da Gama
Name three technologies that came from China during its golden age?
Magnetic Compass, Gunpowder, movable-type, larger ships/sails.
How did Islam spread in WEST Africa.
Via trade (i.e. Timbuktu)
What is a Bureaucrat?
Gov official. Not a member of a particular class, usually not land-owners.
3 main elements of Lutheranism
Faith in Jesus, not good works brings salvation
The Bible is the final source of truth about god, not priests.
Church is all believers, not just the clergy
Why did the Spanish resort to the African slave trade?
- Native Americans dying in encomienda
- Sugar was labor intensive
- Africans immune to old-world diseases
What was the Yuan Dynasty?
Mongol-ruled China.
Four things that the Gunpowder Empires have in common other than gunpowder and military conquest.
1 turkish
2 timur land
3 islamic
4 theocracies
5 multicultural
Explain the devshirme system.
- young men 8-18 in Europe taken by the Ottoman Empire
- trained in Enderun schools
- postions in Gov. and military
- loyal to Sultan/Empire not local regions
- Converted to Islam
What was different about England compared to why other countries left the church during the reformation?
-Henry VIII left for political reasons
- Wanted a divorce/annulment
- did not embrace lutheranism
Explain the Social hierarchy in the Spanish colonies.
Peninsulares (Spanish)
Creoles (Spanish born in Americas)
Mestizo (Native and Spanish)
Mulatto (African and Spanish)
Natives (encomienda)
African Slaves
Explain how the Civil Service Exam was an example of meritocracy in Song China.
Those who performed well on the CSE would gain positions in Imperial Bureaucracy, regardless of class.
Explain the Sunni/Shia split.
Muhammad's death lead to split in Islam.
Sunni - thought Abu Bakr take over (became caliph)
Shia - thought ali should take over
Explain the significance of the Mongols to the development of the Silk Road.
-Unified Eurasian land-mass.
-Protected the silk road, facilitating trade.
-Brought Islam further west into Asia.
-Introduced Gunpowder to the world.
- Spread black plague
What were the "calamitous" events that took place in Europe at the end of the middle-ages.
- Black plague
- Great famine
- hundred years war
Explain the "Gold" motivation for the 3 G's in detail.
- Italian/Muslim domination of spice trade increased prices
- Direct route would cut out middle-men.
- raw materials, resources, markets.