UNIT ONE: Tapestry? I Hardly Know-Thee
This innovation helped the economy of Song China flourish by boosting agricultural output.
Champa rice
This empire’s expansion facilitated Afro Eurasian trade networks by drawing new peoples into their commercial systems.
Mongol Empire
“Imperial expansion relied on the increased use of gunpowder, cannons, and armed trade.”
Name one empire built through this type of development.
Ottoman Empire
This system of exchange led to mass demographic and ecological transformations after 1492.
Columbian Exchange
This doctrine claimed rulers derived authority directly from God.
Divine Right of Kings OR Mandate of Heaven
This Buddhist kingdom in Southeast Asia built Angkor Wat.
Khmer Empire
This political structure used Confucianism and imperial bureaucracy to maintain rule.
Civil service system
These communities introduced their own cultural traditions into Indian Ocean port cities.
Diasporic merchant communities
Ottoman devshirme and Chinese civil service exams reflect different strategies for what shared governing need?
Centralized control/authority
This economic theory justified imperial competition and the stockpiling of bullion.
Mercantilism
Ottoman and Safavid rivalry centered partly on these competing Islamic identities.
Sunni and Shia
Islam, Buddhism, and Confucianism continued shaping societies from 1200 to 1450. What specific social expectation persisted for women under these traditions?
Filial piety
The rise of new Islamic states after Abbasid fragmentation reflects what type of historical pattern in state formation?
Decentralization of power
The Mongol Empire facilitated Afro Eurasian trade by protecting caravan travel across Eurasia. What was this period called?
Pax Mongolica
Monumental architecture like Versailles and the Taj Mahal functioned as political tools. What cause and effect relationship did they reinforce?
Legitimization of authority
This labor system in Spanish America reorganized Indigenous communities for mining output.
Encomienda
Gunpowder transfer from China to Europe is an example of what connective process?
Technological diffusion
This Chinese admiral led major maritime expeditions prior to European expansion.
Zheng He
A powerful medieval city and the capital of a large kingdom in Southern Africa, renowned for its massive dry-stone architecture, built without mortar between the 11th and 15th centuries, serving as a major trade center for gold and ivory
Great Zimbabwe
This disease spread along trade routes, reshaping demographic patterns across Afro Eurasia.
Bubonic plague
This conflict intensified the Sunni Shia split in the early modern period.
Ottoman-Safavid conflict
Demands for coerced labor increased as plantation systems expanded. What structural change did this fuel in the Atlantic world?
Slave trade intensification
Bhakti poetry promoted emotional devotion. What social boundary did it frequently challenge?
Caste hierarchy
Renowned Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, and scientist - known for his vast contributions to science and philosophy, especially establishing trigonometry as an independent discipline, developing innovative astronomical models (founding the Maragheh Observatory), and writing influential works on ethics, logic, and Ismaili philosophy.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Known for its cultural brilliance, economic growth, and significant technological innovations like gunpowder, paper money, and the magnetic compass, fostering vibrant urban life, sophisticated art (especially landscape painting), advanced printing, and strong civil bureaucracy, this dynasty eventually fell to the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Song Dynasty
The spread of the Black Death followed commercial arteries. What structural change did this cause across much of Europe?
Labor Shortages
Decline of Feudalism
Rise of Wage Based Labor
The Protestant Reformation challenged Catholic power and unity. What long term global change did this rupture accelerate?
Christian fragmentation
Native resistance such as the Pueblo Revolt reveals what broader historical dynamic in colonial contexts?
Anti-imperial autonomy movements
Cultural patronage (mosaics, temples, portraits) functioned as soft power. What larger continuity does this signal?
Ideological Legitimation (Soft Power)
e.g. Using non-coercive means, such as cultural influence and shared values, to achieve political and social dominance
This ancient trade city in Central Asia grew wealthy from its location on the Silk Road and is frequently referenced as cosmopolitan.
Samarkand