1200-1450
What is the first major trade network connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia?
The silk road
What empire conquered the Aztec Empire
Spanish Empire
Where did the industrial revolution begin?
Great Britain.
What war was caused by multiple alliances and tension?
WW1
What is the movement of ideas, goods, and cultures called?
Cultural diffusion
What empire helped make trade safer across Eurasia.
Mongol Empire
What are the major land based empires and how did they rise?
Gunpowder empires: Ottoman, Saffavid, and Mughal
What invention ended up increasing slavery and why?
The cotton gin
What does MAIN stand for? Explain each a little bit.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism.
How are religions spread and the effects?
Trade, conquest, missionaries, cultural diffusion.
What pandemic spreaded in the 1300s? Effects?
The Black Death
What was the Triangular trade (Must hit all major aspects)
Goods, plants, enslaved people, disease, and culture
What ideology supported worker control of production?
Socialism/Marxism
What war involved Axis vs. Allied powers?
WW2
What is the blending cultural things called?
Syncretism
What religion spread widely along trade routes during this time.
Islam or Buddhism
What system forced indigenous people into labor for Spanish landowners.
Encomienda system
How did European powers take control of Africa? What were the effects, list 3+.
Imperialism or Scramble for Africa + Valid effects.
What global system describes interconnected economies and cultures today?
Globalization
Explain how geography influenced trade patterns in world history.
Oceans enabled, mountains and Sahara limited, channels, ect.
Put these Chinese dynasties in order: Yuan, Tang, Song
Tang, Song, Yuan
What was the Mita system in the Inca Empire?
Required communities to provide mandatory labor to the state.
A fabulous detailed response.
How did WW2 contribute to the begining of the Cold War? Explain in Detail.
Tensions, new superpowers, ideological conflict.
What system describes European colonies supplying raw materials?
Mercantilism