Units 1 & 2
This agricultural crop was grown in Vietnam and spread to China. It was highly drought resistant and allowed for population growth as it was easy to grow.
What is Champa Rice?
This technological innovation allowed for empires to conquest other neighboring states through military might.
What is gunpowder?
This system of trade involved the exchange of goods, people, animals, and diseases across the globe in the 16th century. Goods included Maize, Horses, Tomatoes, Potatoes, and more.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is Nationalism?
This ideology revolves around the concept of "Survival of the Fittest", and used by countries and nationalist as a form of claiming racial superiority to others.
What is Social Darwinism?
Invented by the Chinese, this technological innovation allowed for boats and ships to be able to turn much more fluidly in the water, allowing for better and faster transportation.
What is a rudder?
This social system involved the capturing and recruitment of Christian children and forcing them into service in the Ottoman military.
What is the Devshirme System?
This trade network involved the forced migration of enslaved peoples to places like the Americas.
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
What is the Enlightenment?
This was a number of conflicts between the British and Chinese surrounding trade rights and restrictions in the 19th century. The outcome resulted in increased British influence and power in China through extraterritoriality and the annexation of Hong Kong.
What are the Opium Wars?
This coastal state was a center of trade in the world and a frequent stop for individuals like Chinese and Muslim merchants. They were also a center of cultural syncretism, including multiple different cultures of people and languages.
What is the Swahili Kingdom?
This Islamic Empire, located in Persia, were followers of Shi'a Islam, claiming that their ruler was a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. This empire fought a number of religious conflicts with neighboring Islamic states who were Sunni Islam.
Who are the Safavid Empire?
This economic theory, created and used by the Europeans, emphasizes governments' powers through the acquisition of wealth, exporting more than importing, and a focus on gaining raw materials.
What is Mercantalism?
This Enlightenment thinker presented the idea of a "Social Contract", claiming that individuals must trade some of their natural rights and freedoms, and in return they protected from a political authority.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
This was one of the causes of imperialism. This cause revolved around imperialist powers believing that it was their duty to spread western values and replace indigenous cultures and norms with European culture.
What is the civilizing mission?
This tax system was created by the Inca and implemented as a form of physical labor. They used it in order to create things like highways and bridges all throughout the Inca Empire.
What is the Mita System?
This practice by the Catholic Church was highly unpopular and criticizers of the Catholic Church, like Martin Luther, were against this practice during the Protestant Reformation. From this practice, people gave the Church alms in return for being forgiven for their sins.
What are indulgences?
This European conflict was the result of ongoing territorial disputes between the British and France. This resulted in a major shift in colonial power as Britain gained more power as the victors of the war.
What is the Seven Years' War?
The French Revolution, fueled by peasants and the unhappy Third Estate, worked together in order to overthrow the French monarchy. On top of unfair representation, unequal rights, and large taxes, one of the main goals of the Third Estate was to end this old style system of European society.
What is Feudalism?
From 1750 - 1900, populations of people from these two nations migrated around the globe, but primarily travelled to this part of the globe for numerous reasons, like searching for new economic opportunities and escaping economic turmoil in their home countries.
This Middle Eastern Empire was one of the first Turkish Empires to claim the Muslim title of Sultan during the 11th and 12th century.
What is the Seljuk Turkic Empire?
This monotheistic religion, founded by Guru Nanak in the Punjab region, was formed as a combination of Hindu and Islam by merchants as a result of syncretism. This religion emphasizes accessibility, peace, learning, and discipline.
What is Sikhism?
These individuals are ethnically Spanish, but born in the Americas. They were at the top of the Casta System, often employed by the Spanish government in leadership positions like mayors and governors.
Who are Peninsulares?
This government controlled reform was an attempt made to modernize the empire during the Industrial Revolution. The reforms included creating tax reforms, a unified education system, and modernizing weaponry. However, the reform was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the collapse of the empire.
What are the Tanzimat Reforms?
This war from (1900-1901) occurred in the Ashanti Empire in modern day Ghana as a form of rebellion against British colonial rule. The war revolved around fighting for a monastic golden stool.
What is the Yaa Asantewaa War / War of the Golden Stool?