FACT CARDS

1. Take 2 pieces of paper, fold and staple at the top.2. Write the “Do You Know” topic on the front flap.3. Write the answers on the back of the flap.4. Do this for each of the empires.5. Paste the appropriate map on each card.

Empires Fact Cards

• Your Name & Block

China

Do you know?

1. Policy toward trade with Europeans?

2. How it limited trade? (vocab word)

3. Chinese goods wanted in Europe

c. 1500

FRONT

CHINA

1. Control foreign influence & trade2. Foreign Enclaves 3. Silk, tea, porcelain, paper

BACK

Japan

Do you know?

1. Structure of government?

2. Policy toward foreign trade? (vocab word)

c. 1500

FRONT

1. Emperor with no power & ruled by Shogun

2. Isolationism

BACK

Ottoman Empire

Do you know?

1. Original location2. Where it expanded? (3 places)3. Capital4. Religion5. Goods traded

c. 1500

FRONT

OTTOMAN EMPIRE

1. Anatolia (Asia Minor/Tukey)2. Balkan Peninsula, N. Africa & Middle East3. Istanbul (NOT Constantinople)4. Islam unified empire5. Coffee & ceramics

BACK

Mughal Empire

Do you know?

1. Location2. Religion3. Famous Architecture4. Trading Partners5. Goods it traded (influence)

c. 1500

FRONT

MUGHAL EMPIRE

1. North India2. Spread Islam to India3. Taj Mahal4. Europeans (England, Portugal,

Netherlands) – set up trading ports5. Textiles (influenced the British textile

industry)

BACK

Aztec Empire

Do you know?

1. Location2. Capital city3. Best Known For

c. 1500

FRONT

AZTEC EMPIRE

1. Central Mexico & Yucatan Peninsula2. Tenochtitlan (NOT Mexico City)3. Human sacrifice; Gold

BACK

Mayan Empire

Do you know?

1. Location2. Best Known For3. New food for Europeans

c. 1500

FRONT

MAYAN EMPIRE

1. Yucatan Peninsula & Central America2. Pyramids; calendar3. Corn (maize)

BACK

Inca Empire

Do you know?

1. Location2. Best Known For3. New food for Europeans

c. 1500

FRONT

INCA EMPIRE

1. Andes Mountains, South America (Peru & Chile)2. Roads & bridges; terracing3. Potatoes

BACK