Silk Roads
This famous Chinese dynasty reopened and expanded the Silk Roads.
Answer: What is the Han Dynasty?
These seasonal winds helped sailors travel across the Indian Ocean.
What are monsoon winds?
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This country started the Industrial Revolution first.
What is Great Britain?
This alliance included Britain, France, and Russia during World War I.
What is The Allied Powers?
This valuable Chinese product was the most famous good traded on the Silk Roads.
Answer: What is silk? (Porcelain)
This East African trading city became wealthy from Indian Ocean commerce.
Answer: What is Kilwa? (Swahili city-states)
This empire in India was known for blending Muslim and Hindu traditions.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This invention by James Watt improved factory and transportation efficiency.
What is the steam engine?
This event started World War I after an Austrian archduke was killed.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These animals made long-distance desert travel possible across Central Asia.
What are camels?
This religion spread widely through Indian Ocean trade and merchant activity.
What is Islam?
These elite Ottoman soldiers were taken as boys and trained to serve the sultan.
What are janissaries?
People moved from rural farms into these growing areas during industrialization.
What are cities? (urban areas)
This treaty officially ended World War I and punished Germany.
Answer: What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This religion spread widely from India into China using the Silk Roads.
What is Buddhism?
This crop from Southeast Asia became highly desired in Europe and drove trade in the Indian Ocean.
What are spices?
This Safavid ruler made Shi’a Islam the official religion of Persia.
Who is Shah Abbas? (Shah Ismail)
This economic system encourages private ownership and competition for profit.
What is capitalism?
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in 1945.
Answer: What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This deadly disease spread through Silk Road trade routes and devastated Eurasia in the 1300s.
What is the Bubonic Plague? (Black Death)
This Chinese admiral led huge treasure fleets during the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
This Russian ruler modernized Russia and built St. Petersburg.
Who is Peter the Great?
This ideology, associated with Karl Marx, argued workers would overthrow the upper class.
What is communism? (Marxism)
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?