AP World- Empires Review

Mongols

100

This Mongol leader is the most famous from the Yuan Dynasty.

Who is Kublai Khan?

200

The Mongolians had almost complete control over this strategic trade route.

What is the silk road?

300

This traveler vested the Mongol court in China and brought back ideas to Italy.

Who is Marco Polo?

400

This Mongol Khanate is located in Persia.

What is the Ilk-Khanate?

500

This written language became standard across the Mongolian Empire.

What is Uyghur script?

Ottomans

100

The Ottoman city of Istanbul is located on this strategic waterway.

What is the bosporus?

200

This conflict ended the rule of Ottoman sultans.

What is WWI?

300

While this group of people were being kicked out of Spain and Portugal during the late 1400's-1600's, they were accepted in the Ottoman Empire

Who are Jewish people?

400

He is the most famous sultan of the Ottomans, bringing new laws and stability to the empire.

Who is Suliman the Lawgiver/Magnificant

500

Janissaries were typically conscripted from families in this region.

What is the Balkans?

Spanish

100

This term is used to describe the Spanish colonial navy.

What is an armada?

200

This was an important colony of Spain in the western Pacific.

What is the Philippines?

300

This system of segregation was used on encomiendas.

What is the casta system?

400

These ship were known for shipping goods across the Pacific. (Two Words)

What are Manilla Galleons?

500

This empire formed in the wake of anti-colonialism in South America.

What is Gran Colombia?

British

100

This conflict with Dutch people brought a strategically located colony into the British Empire.

What is the Boer War?

200

This term was given to both the colony and the leader of South Asia under the control of the British.

What is Raj?

300

This uprising in South Asia in 1857 led to serious questions about if the British should rule here.

What is the Sepoy Rebellion/Massacre?

400

The trade network that supplied slave labor to American colonies.

What is Triangle Trade/Trans-Atlantic Trade/Middle Passage?

500

After unequal treaties with China, the British would collaborate with their Chinese colony and form this financial organization.

What is HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation)?

Other Empires

100

Known for their domestication of llamas and alpacas, this empire dominated Andean trade.

Who are the Inca?

200

This business-empire based out of Amsterdam, had control of spices from islands like Java.

What is the VOC/Dutch East Indies Trading Co?

300

This Southern African Empire was the largest of its kind from ~1200-1700, and was connected to the Indian Ocean Trade Network. (Two Words)

What is the Great Zimbabwe?

400

This famous trade city, connected to the Trans-African trade network, injected gold from the Songhai, Mali, and Ghanan Empires into the world.

What is Timbuktu?

500

This modern Japanese Empire would control the home islands, Manchuria, coastal China, south to New Guinea. (4-6 words)

What is the Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.