Trade Routes
This seasonal wind pattern was essential for merchants sailing the Indian Ocean, by helping them plan their trading voyages to be more efficient during the 9th to 15th centuries.
What are monsoons?
This country was known for its silk and porcelain trade in the Silk Roads during the 8th to 14th centuries, giving its namesake.
What is China’s contribution to the Silk Roads?
This major ideology, created by Martin Luther, radically criticized the Church for violating biblical teachings, most notably indulgences.
What is Lutheranism?
This triangular sail, first used in the Mediterranean, revolutionized sailing by allowing ships to tack against the wind, paving the way for long-distance sea travel.
What is the Lateen Sail?
These trade routes were crucial for transporting gold, salt, and ivory, while also helping spread Islam through cities like Timbuktu.
What are the Trans-Saharan trade routes known for?
Caravanserai first appeared on this major trade route, allowing for travelers and their camels to rest, sometimes being used to trade in tired animals for fresh, healthy ones.
Which crucial invention to desert land trade was founded on the Silk Roads?
Large, multiethnic states in Southwest, Central, and South Asia that relied on the use of firearms.
What are the Gunpowder Empires?
This caste system was led by the boyar class, who stood above the numerous peasants and serfs.
What is the Russian caste system?
This leg of the Triangular trade involved the brutal transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, with deadly and overcrowded conditions on the ships involved.
What is the middle passage?
This European country was the first to engage in the Atlantic slave trade, transporting enslaved Africans to work on sugar plantations in the 15th century.
What is Portugal?
This ideology insisted on the collection of data before forming a hypothesis, created by Francis Bacon, and confronted the traditional ideas of acting on faith, not reason.
What is empiricism?
This term describes the network of trade and exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, including enslaved people, goods, and ideas during the 16th to 19th centuries.
What is the Atlantic System?
This luxury good from China, often white and blue, became coveted worldwide through the Indian Ocean trade.
What is porcelain?
This crop, grown on Caribbean and American plantations, was one of the main reasons for the high demand for enslaved African labor.
What is sugar?
This system allowed poor Europeans to work for a number of years in exchange for passage to the American colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
In the Ottoman Empire, this elite military group was made up of enslaved Christian boys converted to Islam and trained as soldiers.
What is the Janissaries?
These trade routes—both land and maritime—had been conquered, improved, and connected by the Mongol Empire during the 13th to 15th century.
What created unification within the Silk Roads?
This empire benefitted significantly from controlling and taxing Trans-Saharan trade routes during its height.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
During the Commercial Revolution, this economic system emerged, where colonies supplied raw materials and served as markets for the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This Mughal emperor ended the jizya tax on non-Muslims and allowed Hindus to hold high positions in his government.
Who is Akbar the Great?