Defining History and The Mongols
To be meaningful, the study of history must include these two components.
What are a record and an interpretation of events?
The Chinese philosophical and political concept that justified the rule of an emperor as being granted by divine power.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This is the belief in more than one god.
The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The period (1500s–1600s) when scientists began using observation, experimentation, and reason to understand the natural world, leading to major changes in science and society.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This is the process of figuring out a source's reliability by determining who wrote it, what the author’s perspective was, and when and why the document was written.
What is Sourcing?
This activity contributed to the spread of the Black Death from Asia into Europe?
What is trade on the Silk Road?
Muhammad is the main prophet in this religion.
What is the Islam?
This event led to Muslim control of Asia's major trade routes, forcing Europe to seek alternative routes.
What is the Fall of Constantinople?
During this period, the idea that reason and observation could uncover truth, inspired philosophers to apply reasonable thinking to the government, rights, and society.
What is the Enlightenment?
This brutal military leader united tribes throughout the Asian continent to establish the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This leader traveled on behalf of the Ming Dynasty to project their culture’s glory and power throughout the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
The sacred text in this religion is the Torah.
What is Judaism?
These are the two factors of migration.
What are push and pull factors?
This group included the common people of France; they paid most of the taxes but had little political power.
What was the Third Estate?
This step in the historical process is comparing one’s accounts with others' accounts to see where they might agree regarding a historical event.
What is Corroboration?
This invention assisted the Ming Dynasty to remove Mongol rule of China.
What is gunpowder?
The grievances posted by Martin Luther on the church door at Wittenberg, were part of a document also known as this.
What is the 95 Theses?
After the Fall of Constantinople, this time period was known for advances in mathematics, science, and medicine.
What is the Golden Age of Islam?
This individual stated all people have natural rights—life, liberty, and property—and governments must protect these rights.
Who was John Locke?
This is the period of peace and prosperity brought about by Mongol control over the lands they conquered.
What is Pax Mongolica?
This ideology during the Ming Dynasty of projecting your power just for all others to see your authority.
What is soft power?
This type of art was created to teach religion to people who could not read or write.
What is Medieval Art?
European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved labor because Indigenous American populations declined from this.
What is disease?
This revolutionary leader known as “The Liberator” helped free Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Spanish rule.
Who was Simón Bolívar?