unit 1
This Chinese innovation, expanded during the Song Dynasty, greatly facilitated internal trade and communication.
What is the Grand Canal?
This deadly pandemic, which spread from China to Europe in the 14th century, was facilitated by increased trade connectivity.
What is the Black Death?
This man's writing was the cause for the divide in Christendom in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
The demand for sugar in Europe was a cause for the expansion of this labor system in the Atlantic World, where purchasers has total ownership over enslaved person.
What is chattel slavery?
These Enlightenment philosophies were central to these Atlantic Revolutions in c. 1750 - c. 1900 such as the American and French Revolution.
What is natural rights, social contract, or popular sovereignty?
This Islamic sect emphasized mystical experiences and played a key role in the spread of Islam.
What is Sufism?
This term refers to a series of inns and guesthouses that provided safety and lodging for merchants along the Silk Roads.
What is the caravanserai?
The need to legitimize and consolidate power was a major cause for the development of this infrastructure in France.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This term refers to the emphasis of the buildup of mineral wealth by maintaining a favorable balance of trade.
What is mercantilism?
This term refers to Japan's industrialization process due to pressure from Commodore Matthew Perry and the emergence of industrialized states in the Western area.
What is Meiji Restoration?
These countries practiced Theravada Buddhism (Bonus if you name the countries that practiced Mahayana Buddhism).
Theravada: Sri Lanka, Myanmar
Mahayana: China, Korea
This term describes the existence of Arab and Persian communities established in East Africa.
This land-based empire decided to adhere to a certain religion unlike its neighbors, resulting in several conflicts.
What is the Safavid Empire?
This term refers to the small pockets of societies that consisted of runaway slaves from colonies.
What are maroon societies?
Name a technology innovated in the First and Second Industrial Revolution.
First: Steam engines, spinning jenny
Second: Internal combustion engine, electricity, vulcanization
This labor system, used by the Inca Empire, required all citizens to work on state projects for a certain period each year.
What is the Mit'a System?
This vast communication and relay system, featuring stations spaced a day's journey apart, was created by the Mongols to govern their empire.
What is the yam system?
Both the Ottoman and this South Asian empire used gunpowder weapons to create their territories, but the latter was noted for its religious tolerance under Akbar.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This Ottoman ruler was one of the rulers who responded with tolerance to displaced Jews and welcomed them into his empire in response to Spain and Portugal's expulsion.
Who is Mehmed II?
The Industrial Revolution changed social structures by creating two new major classes: the industrial working class (proletariat) and this other class, which owned the means of production and grew more powerful than the old aristocracy.
Who is the bourgeoisie?
Name a difference between the Aztec and Inca Empire.
Aztec: Decentralized, tribute states
Inca: Centralized, Mit'a System
The collapse of the Mongol Khanates was a direct cause for the decline of this overland route, spurring the maritime exploration of the 15th century.
What is Silk Roads/Pax Mongolica?
This term referred to the elite landowners who were granted authority to tax peasants living on their land on behalf of the imperial government
Who are Zamindars?
The massive influx of silver from Potosà to Spain, and then to China for goods, was a key cause for this global economic phenomenon in the 16th-17th centuries.
What is the Global Silver Trade/Price Revolution?
Name three of the seven factors that contributed to industrialization in Britain.
Proximity to waterways, Geographical distribution of coal, Access to foreign resources, Improved agricultural productivity, Urbanization, Legal Protections of Private Property, Accumulation of Capital