Global Tapestry Empires and Trade
This Chinese dynasty revived Confucian bureaucracy and introduced major innovations like paper money.
Song Dynasty
This innovation allowed for the mass production of texts in China and helped increase literacy rates.
Printing
This explorer’s 1492 voyage began European colonization of the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
This was the sea journey enslaved Africans endured to reach the Americas.
Middle Passage
This term refers to the global transfer of goods, people, and diseases after 1492.
Columbian Exchange
This West African empire gained wealth from gold-salt trade and was ruled by Mansa Musa.
Mali Empire
Originally used for fireworks, this Chinese invention later changed warfare.
Gunpowder
This conquistador led the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Hernán Cortés
This three-part trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
This theory said colonies exist to benefit the mother country along with exporting more than importing.
Mercantilism
Name at least 2 goods traded on the Silk Roads.
Gold, salt, spices, silk, porcelain, etc.
This navigational tool helped sailors explore more accurately across open seas.
Compass
The Aztecs were located in this modern-day country.
Mexico
Enslaved labor was often used on these large farms in the Americas.
Plantations
These companies allowed people to invest in exploration and share profits and risks.
Joint-Stock Companies
This nomadic empire created the largest land empire and helped unify Afro-Eurasia.
Mongols
This form of currency developed in the Song Dynasty and replaced heavy coins.
Paper Money
These two countries led early maritime exploration and colonization.
Spain and Portugal
Name at least 2 forms of resistance that African captives showed.
Suicide, infanticide, sabotage, revolts, refusal, etc.
Name one item that traveled from Europe to the Americas in the Columbian Exchange.
What is livestock, sugar, disease, wheat, rice, etc.
This was the name for the "empire" or kingdom of Christianity, especially in Europe.
Christendom
This period of European history advocated for classical learning and often borrow technological advancements and innovations from the Muslim world.
Renaissance
This is what the Europeans often called people they conquered in order to justify their actions. This term is often used to belittle people and places that have not developed like Europe and are often seen as "backwards."
Uncivilized
One long-term consequence of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa.
Population loss, social disruption, and increased warfare.
This is the current economic system that we use today throughout much of the world that many argue evolved out of mercantilism. It promotes free markets and less government interference.
Capitalism