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The Mali Empire became rich by trading these two valuable resources across the Sahara Desert.
What are gold and salt?
This widespread exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres began after voyages in 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the Revolution that created the idea of farming, and caused humans to create settlements instead of living as nomads.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This cultural movement that began in Italy emphasized humanism, art, and a revival of classical learning from Greece and Rome.
What was the Renaissance?
This Mesoamerican civilization is known for its pyramids, calendars, and writing system long before European contact.
What is the Mayan Empire?
During his pilgrimage to Mecca, Mansa Musa helped spread this religion and its architectural style throughout West Africa.
What is Islam?
This system of exchange connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, forming a network of goods, wealth, and enslaved labor across the Atlantic.
What is the Transatlantic Trade?
This ancient river valley civilization developed along the Nile River and is known for its pyramids, hieroglyphics, and pharaohs.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This deadly epidemic spread along trade routes in the 14th century, killing millions across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
What is the Black Death/Plague?
This empire, centered in Tenochtitlán, was known for human sacrifice, advanced engineering, and eventual conquest by Hernán Cortés.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This wealthy empire grew powerful by controlling the gold and salt trade across the Sahara Desert in the 13th and 14th centuries.
What is the Mali Empire?
This was the brutal sea voyage that forcibly transported enslaved Africans to the Americas as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Babylonian king created one of the world’s first written law codes, famous for the principle “an eye for an eye.”
Who is Hammurabi?
This powerful caliphate, based in Baghdad, oversaw a golden age of learning, science, and culture in the Islamic world between the 8th and 13th centuries.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This economic and trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, moving goods, enslaved people, and raw materials across the Atlantic.
What is the Atlantic System?
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires are often grouped under this name because they used new military technology to expand and control their territories.
What are gunpowder empires?
This economic system held that colonies existed to enrich the mother country through controlled trade and accumulation of gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism?
Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, this religion emerged in ancient India and teaches the path to enlightenment through the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
This type of rice, having a shorter grain and being easier to grow more of, allowed parts of Asia and South Asia to have a population boom between the years of 960-1270 AD
What is Champa Rice?
This South American empire built vast road systems through the Andes and was conquered by Francisco Pizarro in the 1500s.
What is the Inca Empire?
These less centralized city states were on the East coast of Africa, and were a major sea-faring trade hub between West Africa and the Indian Ocean
What are the Swahili City states?
DAILY DOUBLE: Draft a Thesis with 3 effects of the Columbian Exchange (1 min).
What are demographic changes from war/disease?
What is transfer of goods and resources?
What is loss of indigenous culture?
This Greek city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy and was home to philosophers like Socrates and Plato.
What is Athens?
This gunpowder empire, known for blending Persian, Indian, and Islamic cultures, ruled much of South Asia from the 1500s to the 1700s — and saw the rise of Sikhism during its reign.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This 1680 uprising by Indigenous peoples in the Southwest successfully expelled Spanish colonizers from New Mexico for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?