Unit 2
This trade network connected East Asia to the Mediterranean and was known for luxury goods like silk and porcelain.
What is the Silk Road?
This empire, centered in Anatolia, conquered Constantinople in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This exchange transferred crops, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This theory by Charles Darwin was misapplied to justify imperialism and social inequality.
What is Social Darwinism?
This disease spread along Afro-Eurasian trade routes in the 14th century, killing millions.
What is the Black Death?
This gunpowder empire in South Asia was known for its policy of religious tolerance under Akbar.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This Spanish labor system forced Indigenous people to work in mines and plantations.
What is the Encomienda system?
This revolution led to the first independent nation in Latin America led by formerly enslaved people.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This European conference (1884–1885) regulated the partition of Africa among imperial powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
When a famous empire brought an era of peaceful trade across Eurasia by providing security and order.
What is "Pax Mongolica?"
This Chinese dynasty restored Han rule after the Mongols and sponsored massive naval expeditions.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
The racial hierarchy established in Spanish colonies in the Americas.
What is the casta system?
This ideology, developed by Karl Marx, called for a classless society and influenced later revolutions.
What is Communism?
After the Opium Wars, China was divided into these, by European powers.
What are spheres of influence?
City-states that became wealthy through Indian Ocean trade and shows cultural blending of African and Islamic influences.
What are the Swahili city-states?
This system allowed the Ottomans to recruit Christian boys, convert them to Islam, and train them for government or military service.
What is the Devshirme?
This British joint-stock company dominated trade in the Indian Ocean and had its own army.
What was the British East India Company?
When Japan made efforts to industrialize, including abolishing the samurai and promoting state-sponsored industry.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
After this event, both the Mughal Empire and BEIC ended, but British rule continued.
What is the Indian Rebellion?
This traveler from Morocco documented his journeys across Dar al-Islam and beyond in a famous travel account.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The main rival of the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire.
Who was the Safavid Empire?
This African kingdom grew wealthy by participating in the Atlantic slave trade and exchanging enslaved people for European goods.
What is the Kingdom of Kongo.
The "father of capitalism" an Enlightenment thinker who promoted free-markets and economic competition.
Who is Adam Smith?
A Belgian colony that was exploited for rubber by King Leopold II.
What is the Belgian Congo?