Vocab Quiz 16

The most famous emperor of India’s Mughal Empire (r. 1556–1605); his policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion. 

• Akbar
• Jasak
• Aurangzeb
• La Malinche

Despite the building of the Great Wall, a combined force of Mongols, Jurchen, and Han Chinese vassals from the area of modern-day Manchuria came together as "Manchus" and overthrew Ming Dynasty China to create this final dynasty that would build the borders of modern China before finally falling in 1912.

• Qing
• Yuan
• Qin
• Mughal 

An important trade state located near its namesake "straits" that would control trade on the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean Trade network and become a target for European colonization because of its strategic value.  

• Srivijaya 
• Akbar
• Qing
• Malacca 

An incredibly important breakthrough in European shipbuilding that was a necessary step for the European age of exploration.  They were small but their lateen sails and maneuverability made them incredibly seaworthy and important as Europeans ventured out into the Atlantic in search of routes to India and China.  

• Schooner
• Junk
• Caravel
• Jasak

The term given to the cross cultural, transatlantic discoveries and introduction of goods, natural resources, raw materials, religion, institutions, and diseases ignited by the "discovery" of the New World.  

• Columbian Exchange
• Atlantic Ocean network
• Trade Winds
• Middle Passage

Due to the vulnerability of indigenous Americans who had been cut-off from the trade networks and cultural exchanges of Afro-Eurasia for thousands of years, they experienced this event at the hand of diseases such as Influenza, Smallpox, Measles, Typhus, and tuberculosis.  Tens of millions died, paving the way for an easy European conquest.  

• Columbian Exchange
• La Malinche
• The Great Dying
• Mestizo

The term applied to a person of mixed Spanish and indigenous blood that showed the way in which the Spanish highly stratified their New World society based on a racial caste system.  

• Peninsulares 
• Mestizos
• Criollos
• Mulattoes 

The massive expanse of land in Eastern Russia rich in natural resources that the Russians conquered in order to build their rich and wealthy empire.  

• Siberia
• Malacca
• Jasak
• Akbar

Powerful winds--the Gulf Stream for example--that blow across the Atlantic ocean, which facilitated European "discovery" of the New World.

• Directional Winds
• Trade Winds
• Monsoon Winds
• Tacking Winds

The man who conquered defeated the Aztecs (with the help of disease and angry Aztec subjects tired of their brutal rule) in 1519, sparking the Spanish conquest of the New World, which would enrich the Spanish Empire and funnel silver and gold to the European Continent.  

• Akbar
• Hernan Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• La Malinche