Inca & Ancient Empires
The Inca managed their huge empire partly by dividing it into four large regions.
What are provinces
According to Alfred Crosby, Native Americans were at this type of disadvantage because they had been isolated from the rest of the world
What is a biological disadvantage?
This religious and economic factor was most responsible for influencing the point of view of the travelers Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo
What are religion and economics?
All three of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires shared the use of these kinds of weapons in their rise to power.
What are gunpowder weapons
In the 1381 English peasant revolt, John Ball argued everyone should be free because they all came from these two biblical people
Who are Adam and Eve
The Triple Alliance is the more precise name for this Mesoamerican empire
What is the Aztec Empire?
This navigational feature, depicted on a model of a caravel, improved deep water navigation and was first used in the Indian Ocean.
What are lateen sails?
According to Ralph Fitch, the Portuguese used this silver, which they obtained from Japan, to their great advantage when trading in China
What is Japanese silver
The Ottomans and Safavids often fought due to religious differences between these two Islamic groups
What are Sunni and Shi'a
The castas system in the Spanish Americas was different from European social systems because it based status on these two things
What are racial ancestry and colonial place of birth?
This major Inca road system shows how well the empire connected its regions.
What is the Carpa Nan?
Along with the African population, the Columbian Exchange involved the transfer of this hemisphere's food to Europe and Africa.
What is the Western Hemisphere's food?
These predictable seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean made long-distance trade easier.
What are the monsoon winds
Father Simon reported that Shah Abbas I was skilled in warfare and introduced the use of and esteem for this specific weapon into the Safavid militia.
What are muskets
These people, identified as being of Spanish birth, held the highest social status in the Spanish American hierarchy.
Who are the Peninsulares
According to Charles Mann, this was the "greatest empire on earth," being bigger than Ming Dynasty China, expanding Russia, and the cresting Ottoman Empire
What is the Inka (or Inca) Empire?
Merchants depended on this condition - ensured by empires like Rome and China - to move goods securely across land without fear of bandits or breakdowns
What is the availability of safe and reliable transport along land-based trade routes?
The initial spread of Islam to West Africa was primarily carried out by this group traveling along trans-Saharan routes.
What are merchants (on the trans-Saharan trade routes)
The Ottoman devshirme system and the Chinese civil service exam both helped build this kind of government system
What is creating a large, centralized bureaucracy
Martin Luther opposed Catholic Church mainly because of selling these
What are indulgences
A historian said the Inca were the best empire builders of their time because they were great at using and adjusting to their surroundings.
What is environmental adaptability?
Knowledge of numerals and the decimal system spread from what societies by 1200 CE
What are European societies?
The voyages of Marco Polo were most likely "set the stage" by this period of stability across Eurasia
What is the Pax Mongolica?
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires all descended from this type of nomadic group.
What are Turkic nomadic groups?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam recognize the existence of these two figures, Adam and this biblical lawgiver.
Who is Moses?