Trade Routes
This ancient trade route connected China to Europe and was famous for transporting silk and spices.
What is the Silk Road?
This country controlled most of Central and South America, including Mexico and Peru.
What is Spain?
This empire controlled Turkey and much of southeastern Europe, with its capital at Constantinople.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This war from 1914-1918 was called "The Great War" and involved most of Europe.
What is World War I?
This wall divided a German city during the Cold War from 1961 to 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This ocean was the main route for trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas starting in the 1500s.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This country controlled Brazil and established many trading posts along the coasts of Africa and Asia.
What is Portugal?
This empire controlled most of India and built the famous Taj Mahal.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This war from 1939-1945 involved Germany, Japan, and Italy fighting against the Allies.
What is World War II?
In 1947, this country was divided into two parts: India and Pakistan.
What is British India (or the Indian subcontinent)?
This triangular trade system involved Europe, Africa, and the Americas, including the transport of enslaved people.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This country controlled India for nearly 200 years and had colonies around the world, including Australia and Canada.
What is Britain (or England)?
This empire controlled Iran and made Shia Islam the official religion.
What is the Safavid Empire?
This war from 1950-1953 divided a peninsula in East Asia and involved China and the United Nations.
What is the Korean War?
This conference in 1885 divided up Africa among European countries.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This canal, opened in 1869, connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and made trade with Asia much faster.
What is the Suez Canal?
This country controlled Indonesia (called the Dutch East Indies) and parts of the Caribbean.
What is the Netherlands (or Holland)?
This empire stretched across northern Asia from Europe to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Russian Empire?
This long war from 1955-1975 involved the United States fighting in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
This zone divides North and South Korea and was created after the Korean War.
What is the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)?
This trade route connected the Philippines to Mexico and was controlled by Spanish galleons carrying silver and Asian goods.
What is the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade (Spanish Silver Trade)?
This country controlled Algeria, Vietnam, and parts of West Africa during the colonial period.
What is France?
This empire controlled much of West Africa and the important trading city of Timbuktu.
What is the Songhai Empire or Mali Empire?
This series of wars from 1839-1860 were fought between Britain and China over trade disputes.
What are the Opium Wars?
This artificial boundary in the Middle East was drawn by Britain and France after World War I.
What are the Sykes-Picot borders or the Mandate System?