Unit 1
Polytheistic religion with a strict caste system
What is Hunduism?
Trading center in the ocean
What is the Indian Ocean Basin?
The 3 strongest Gunpowder Empires
What are the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals?
The Eastern and Western Hemispheres became linked
What is the Columbian exchange?
Empire that improved the Silk Roads
What is the Mongol Empire?
The 6 civilizations in the Americas
What are the Mississippians, Chaco, Mesa Verde, Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas?
People settled away from their homeland
What are diasporic communities?
Allowed Mehmed II to besiege Constantinople.
What are cannons?
All of each estate were given to the oldest son
What are primogeniture laws?
What Portugal and America used to split land between them
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Wealthy society in Africa with a thriving gold trade
What is Mali?
Her book was one of the earliest autobiographies in English
Who is Margery Kempe?
Government dictated by one source of power with complete authority (France)
What is an absolute?
Type of empire the Portuguese used to monopolize the Spice Islands
What is a trading post empire?
Four economic advancements used for the Silk Roads
What is flying cash, paper money, banking houses, and bill of exchange?
England and France fought a series of battles (1337-1453)
What is the Hundred Years' War?
Muslim king known for his religious leadership and his pilgrimage to Mecca
Who is Mansa Musa?
Martin Luther's charges that he nailed to a church door.
What is the 95 Thesis?
Compelled indigenous people to work for them in exchange for food and shelter (Spanish)
What are encomenderos?
Noble landowners in Russia
What are boyars?
People made more goods than they could sell
What is proto-industrialization
Genghis Khan's attempt to unify his empire
What is the Uyghur alphabet?
Negative effect of paper money in the Ming Empire.
What is counterfeiting and hyperinflation?
Three African synchronized religions
What are Santeria, Vodun, and Candomble?
Allowed the German states to pick their form of Christianity
What is the Peace if Augsburg?