early history
This East Asian dynasty (960-1279 CE) is known for its advances in printing, gunpowder, and the use of paper money?
What is the Song Dynasty?
This trade route linked China to the Mediterranean, spreading goods like silk, porcelain, and gunpowder?
What are the Silk Roads?
This 14th-century pandemic killed an estimated 25–50% of Europe’s population?
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This river was central to agriculture and trade in ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
This monotheistic religion, founded by Abraham, first developed among the Hebrews in the Middle East?
What is Judaism?
In West Africa, this empire became wealthy from gold and salt trade, with cities like Timbuktu as cultural centers?
What is Mali?
This animal, known as the "ship of the desert," helped facilitate Trans-Saharan trade?
What is the camel?
One consequence of the Bubonic Plague was a severe shortage of this in Europe, leading to higher wages for workers?
What is labor or workforce?
The Indus Valley civilization thrived along this river in South Asia?
What is the Indus River?
This Indian religion introduced the concepts of karma, dharma, and reincarnation?
What is Judaism?
This labor system, common in the Inca Empire, required subjects to provide labor for public works projects?
What is the mita system?
This Venetian traveler’s accounts of Asia increased European interest in trade with the East?
Who is Marco Polo?
The decline in population after the plague helped shift Europe from feudalism toward this emerging economic system?
What is capitalism or a market economy?
Early Chinese civilizations developed along this river, often called “China’s Sorrow” because of flooding?
What is the Huang He?
This Indian religion introduced the concepts of karma, dharma, and reincarnation?
What is Hinduism?
This group of city-states in Mesoamerica built chinampas (floating gardens) for agriculture?
Who are the Mexica/Aztecs?
The spread of this disease, carried along trade routes, killed millions in Eurasia during the 14th century?
What is the Black Death (bubonic plague)?
The labor shortage indirectly fueled European interest in finding new trade routes to obtain this from Asia?
What are luxury goods?
This civilization in Mesopotamia was made up of city-states like Ur and Uruk?
What is Sumer?
Founded in India, this religion spread to China, Korea, and Japan along the Silk Roads and emphasized the Four Noble Truths?
What is Buddhism?
This South Asian religion emphasized devotion to deities through practices like bhakti, shaping cultural life in India?
What is Hinduism?
This Mongol leader united the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, creating the largest land empire in history?
Who is Genghis Khan?
This city in Italy became a major financial center during and after the plague due to trade and banking?
What is Florence?
This Andean civilization built terraces and roads without using the wheel?
What is the Inca civilization?
This monotheistic religion, founded by Jesus of Nazareth, spread rapidly through the Roman Empire?
What is Christianity?