Unit 1 - Global Tapestry
An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea.
Silk Road
People from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history.
Mongols
Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.
Samurai
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
Columbian Exchange
An economic system based on private ownership of capital
Capitalism
A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism.
Neo-Confucianism
gold-salt trade; linked North and West Africa; across Sahara Desert; spread Islam
Trans-Saharan Trade Route
Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Mughal Empire
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
mercantilism
A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion.
Steam Engine
An exam based on Confucian teaching; used to select people for various government jobs.
Civil Service Exam
triangular sail that made it possible to sail against the wind; used in the Indian Ocean trade
lateen sail
'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries (elite military units utilized by the Ottomans)
Devshirme
English laws that only led eldest sons inherit land, leading younger sons to search for money via things like joint-stock companies.
Primogeniture Laws
A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
Enlightenment
In the Middle Ages kings granted land to Lords/Vassals in exchange for military service and loyalty.
Feudalism
Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Ibn Battuta
Religious reform movement begun by Catholic monk Martin Luther who began to question the practices of the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519.
Protestant Reformation
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
Produces the best Cotton in the world
Egypt
A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad
Sunni
Wrote a book - considered the 1st autobiography in the Eng. language. Chronicles her pilgrimages to holy sites in Europe and Asia.
Margery Kempe
City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire, it became a major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning.
Timbuktu
Included slavery, indentured servitude, serfdom, and other coercive labor systems in the Americas.
Coercive Labor Systems
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
Industrial Revolution
Ottoman ruler who sacked Constantinople, effectively ending the Byzantine empire. Renamed it Istanbul and then absorbed the lands of Byzantium.
Sultan Mehmed II
an inn where desert travelers found food and shelter
Caransaries
Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Cossacks
Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish.
Atahualpa
1783-1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.
Simon Bolivar
nomadic Turks from Asia who conquered Baghdad in 1055 and allowed the caliph to remain only as a religious leader.
Seljuk Turks
An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Hanseatic League
An epic poem of the Malinke people and tells the story of the hero __________ Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire
Epic of Sundiata
A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Constructed in 1870s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; completed by the end of the 1880s; brought Russia into a more active Asian role.
Trans-Siberian Railroad