World History Unit 2 Review

What are chieftaincies, confederations, and empires all examples of?

• Networks of Exchange

• Organized communities

• Khanates

• Belief Systems

How did the Mongol Empire affect trade and exchange across Eurasia?

• They created a huge, safe, integrated trade zone that made it easier to trade.

• The Mongols made it unsafe for people to trade across the empire

• They got rid of the Silk Road and replaced it with their own system.

• The Mongols removed all taxes from trade within their empire.

How were the Mongols involved with the spread of the Black Death?

• The Mongols opened up trade paths, which brought infected fleas on rats to Europe.

• They spread the disease intentionally, as a kind of biological warfare.

• They killed whole towns of people who had the plague.

• The Mongols took up agriculture as a way to avoid spreading the plague.

To study this era’s routes of exchange (such as the Silk Road), which of the three historical “frames” would be most helpful in understanding how goods were made, transported, and traded?

• Production and Distribution

• Communities

• Networks of Exchange

• Claims and evidence

If you wanted to study the “consequences of connectivity” that came with increased travel, trade, and interaction of distant peoples, which historical frame would be most applicable?

• communities

• networks of exchange

• production and distribution

• claims and evidence

Where were the Aztec, the Inca, and the Mayan civilizations?

• Oceania

• The Americas

• Afro-Eurasia

• Europe

In addition to tribute, what was one unusual but effective way that the Inca required a contribution from its people, similar to a tax?

• People were required to work as laborers on construction or other projects for a portion of each year.

• People were sent on seasonal journeys and required to return with bounty, such as gold, a new type of crop, or some new technology.

• People were conscripted (drafted) as soldiers for three years before they could work independently.

• People worked about one week per month as chasqui, delivering messages along the extensive Incan rode system.

Who or what was ultimately responsible for bringing down the Aztec and Incan Empires?

• Nomadic Warriors

• Spanish Conquistadors

• Internal Rebellion

• Severe Drought

Which response best describes the region of Oceania?

• Several island groups in the Pacific, part of Australia, and all of New Zealand.

• The Polynesian islands

• Afro-Eurasia

• North and South America

The goods exchanged along the Silk Road in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were mostly of what type?

• Luxuries

• New technologies

• Basic foods

• Medical Supplies