Geography
What region of Africa was/is Mali located in?
Western Africa
What does mestiza/o mean?
a person of Spanish and Indigenous heritage/descent
What is the definition of empire?
an intensive group of nation-states or countries under a single supreme authority
What was the trade system between the Americas and Europe called?
The Columbian Exchange
What event in 1492 caused the population of Indigenous people to decline in what is now the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
What is the capital of Portugal?
Lisbon
Name 3 markers of identity
Race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, culture
What are 3 important aspects of an empire?
military control, expansion, sectoral alliances, trade, political control of conquered territories
Given that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, where did gunpowder originate?
What were the three major sectoral alliances?
The Church, Merchants, Nobles
Name 4 empires existing from 1500-1800.
Spain, Britain, France, Ottoman, Portugal, Mali, Austro-Hungarian (Hapsburg), Chinese...
Give one example of Europeans using identity against non-European populations to gain power...
enslavement (of Africans and Indigenous)
labeling mixed race people
women as property
Name a large important empire
Ottoman, Russian, Mughal, Songhai, Mongol, British, Mali, Congo, Portuguese, Persian, French, Spanish, Hapsburg, American Imperialism*
Name 2 animals present in the Americas before the Columbian Exchange
Alpaca and Bison
The Catholic Monarchs
Where in the Americas did Columbus first bring cattle to?
the Caribbean
Draw the class system
Pyramid of social hierarchy
What 3 aspects were essential to maritime empires?
sails, maps, ports, cannons, ships
What are 2 goods from each place:
Africa
Asia
Americas
Africa: salt & gold
Asia: silk & gunpowder
Americas: tobacco & lumber
Bearing in mind that silver nitrate reacting with sodium chlorate to create a milky precipitate, what city and country was Columbus born in?
Genoa, Italy
Policies and practices within establishments or institutions that consistently advantage white people and disadvantage people of color
What did the Russian empires leaders to do legitimize their rule?
Used religion as a tactic to turn people against Muslims/people outside of the Orthodox Church
What plant was domesticated 9000 years ago to become modern day corn?
Teosinte
What was the name of the Aztec-Mexica ruler during the Spanish arrival?
Moctecuhzoma