Incas and Aztecs built their massive empires by what means?
Conquest
100
Good, religions, diseases and ideas traveled along what famous Asian trade route?
the silk road
100
Increased production of WHAT can explain an increase in the number of African slaves shipped out of Africa?
Increased production of cash crops like sugar
100
As result of the Portuguese school for navigation, trade was opened up between what two continents?
West Africa and Europe
100
Rich harvests in flood plains led to rise of civilizations during what time period?
Neolithic
200
The incorporation of the Americas into a broader global network of exchange marked the beginning of a new period of history: true or false?
True
200
During the 13th century, trade that tied several distinct regional networks together benefited which Chinese Empire?
The Mongols
200
what was a similarity between European colonies in Americas between 1450-1750?
Enslavement of African Peoples and conquest of the American Indians
200
After the Reformation, the Catholic church lost some of its power to who?
Political Leaders
200
in the 1500s rulers often used what to justify their rule?
Religious beliefs
300
Which consequence of the Columbian Exchange most affected American Indians in the 16th century?
Diseases caused pandemics
300
What was the major contributing factor (besides rats) to the spread of the plague to Cairo, Beijing, and Florence in the 14th century.
Trade along the Mongol road system
300
What was the major motivation for European Maritime Expansion in the 15th century?
Direct trade routes to Africa and Asia
300
Renaissance painters were inspired by ?
Greek and Roman Themes
300
What was the position of women in Afro-Eurasia during the classical era?
Subordinate to men
400
What were the terms mestizo, mulatto and creole used for?
Racial classifications to maintain authority of new elite groups in the America.
400
What two Asian empires used a large bureaucracy to support the government?
Ottoman and Chinese
400
What form of economy was created during the Columbian Exchange?
Mercantilism
400
Individual achievement and secularism, as well as a point to study secular and sacred texts is a characteristic of what era?
The Renaissance
400
What was the main function of urban centers in Afro-Eurasia before 600 CE?
cities served as centers of commercial activity
500
What brutal form of sacrificial worship did the Meso-American civilizations practice?
Human Sacrifice
500
The Ottoman Empire was located at the intersections of major trading routes in Asia: true or false?
True
500
What two things led to a change in farming practices during the 16th and 17th centuries in LATIN AMERICA?
Slave labor and Sugar
500
What was a major change in global patterns of religious beliefs bewteen 1450-1750?
monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Islam grew as a result of conquest, trade, and missionary activities.
500
These are all effects of what event?
-critique of society and the church
-focus on learning about the world lead to scientific study
- development by artists provided standards for western art