Unit 1
This Chinese belief system emphasized hierarchy and influenced civil service exams.
Confucianism
These overland routes connected China to the Mediterranean.
Silk Roads
These empires used gunpowder weapons to expand.
Gunpowder Empires
This explorer reached the Americas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
This movement emphasized reason and natural rights.
This Song Dynasty innovation led to major population growth.
Champa rice
These seasonal winds made Indian Ocean trade possible.
Monsoon winds
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453.
Ottoman Empire
This exchange spread crops, animals, and diseases.
The Columbian Exchange
This person led a successful slave revolt that created the first Black Republic in the world.
Toussaint Louverture
This empire used a tribute system and was centered in Tenochtitlán.
Aztec Empire
This Mongol-era period of stability increased trade.
Pax Mongolica
This Mughal ruler promoted religious tolerance.
Akbar
This labor system granted Spaniards Indigenous labor.
Encomienda
The Declaration of Independence bases its famous statement of "Life, Liberty, and Property" on the writing of this famous thinker.
John Locke
This labor system required Inca citizens to work for the state.
Mit'a system
These desert animals made trans-Saharan trade easier.
Camels
This empire made Shi’a Islam the state religion.
Safavid Empire
This economic system emphasized exports over imports.
Mercantilism
This French radical period used mass executions.
The Reign of Terror
This Islamic empire defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut.
The Mamluks
This wealthy ruler of Mali made a famous hajj.
Mansa Musa
The Qing Dynasty legitimized their rule through this belief system
Neo-Confucianism
This country received the highest number of enslaved person from the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Brazil
Adam Smith wrote this book that emphasized free markets, laissez-faire economics, and early capitalism.
The Wealth of Nations