The Global Tapestry
Networks of Exchange
Land-Based Empires
Transoceanic Interconnections
Imperialism
Revolutions
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Chinese Civil Service Exam
What was the test officials had to take to become part of the government?
375
Silk, Gold, Spices, Horses, Porcelain, Iron, Tortoise Shells, etc.
What are goods that were traded on the networks of exchange?
375
Technology that allowed land-based empires to expand.
What is gunpowder?
375
The biological exchange between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas between 1450 and 1750
What was the Columbian Exchange?
375
Survival of the fittest applies to race
What is social darwinism?
375
Revolt against the British based on unfair taxation without representation
What was the American Revolution?
400
2 States that developed in the Americas between 1200 and 1450
What are the ____ and ____ ?
Aztecs/Mexica
Inca
Maya
Cahokia
Pueblo
400
3 networks of exchange before 1450
What are the Silk Road, Trans-Sahara, and Indian Ocean trade routes?
400
System where Christian boys were taken from their villages, converted, and trained into loyal officials in the Ottoman Empire
What is devshirme?
400
Economic policies centered around a favorable balance of trade (before 1800)
What is mercantilism?
400
Sepoy rebellion of 1857
What was the major Indian revolt against British rule called?
400
shifted economies from agrarian, handicraft-based systems to machine-driven production
What was the industrial revolution?
425
Political system based on exchanging service/labor for loyalty/land
What is feudalism?
425
Facilitated the spread of the black death
What is the Silk Road?
OR
Who were the Mongols?
425
An important tool for maintaining legitimacy of empires
What is _____?
Religion
Art
Historians
425
2 examples of challenges to state power between 1450 and 1750
What were ___ and ___?
Maroon societies, Slave revolts, Maratha-Mughal Conflict, Cossack Revolts, Metacom's War, the Fronde, Pueblo revolt, etc...
425
When Britain invaded China to force China to keep buying drugs
What were the Opium Wars?
425
Revolution against Aristocrats within Europe that was marked by extreme violence
What was the French Revolution?
450
African state(s) that arose between 1200 and 1450
What is Mali/Mansa Musa?
What is the Swahili Coast?
What are the Hausa Kingdoms?
450
3 innovations that enabled travel on the networks of exchange before 1450
What are:
compass, caravanserai, flying cash/paper money, camel saddle, banking houses, lateen sail (among other examples)
450
when many European Christians broke away from the Catholic church over allegations of corruption
What was the Protestant Reformation?
450
What was the system under which Spanish conquistadors were given an allotment of people to use to extract resources from newly conquered lands in the Americas?
Encomienda System
450
Resources and the process that drove imperialism in the 1800s
What is the industrial revolution and diamonds, rubber, palm oil, guano, copper, opium, etc.?
450
Philosophical movement that inspired the Atlantic Revolutions
What was the enlightenment?
475
Philosophy based on merit and filial piety
What is Confucianism?
475
Mystics/missionaries who spread Islam along networks of exchange
Who are Sufis?
What are Sufis?
475
How the Mughals handled religious diversity in their empire
What is tolerance, followed by repression?
475
2 technological innovations that enabled European exploration.
What is ___?
Islamic cartography, Compass (Chinese), Lateen sail, astrolabe, new type of rudder, astronomical chart, new kinds of ship (caravel, carrack, fluyt)
475
The center of an empire where it was managed and where people would migrate to after decolonization.
What is a metropole?
What is London/Paris?
475
The most successful slave revolt in history
What was the Haitian revolution?
500
The religion behind large temples like Angkor Wat in Southeast Asia.
What is Buddhism?
500
Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo
Who were travelers on the networks of exchange?
500
The 2 Gunpowder empires that had a long-lasting rivalry over religious differences
What were the Ottoman and Safavid Empires?
500
The maritime empire that was based mostly on Trading Posts
What was the Portuguese Empire?
500
When empires economically dominate smaller countries without conquering the territory politically
What is economic imperialism?
What are spheres of influence?
500
One enlightenment philosopher and the theory they developed
John Locke - Life, Liberty, Property/right to rebel
Montesquieu - Separation of Powers
Wollstonecraft - Women's equality
Rousseau - Social Contract