Unit 1+2
An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea.
What was the Silk Road?
Conflicts between Dutch, Portuguese, and English merchants, for seven years.
What the Seven Year War?
Liberal movement that applied Scientific Revolution to everyday life.
What was the Enlightenment?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire.
What were the central powers?
An alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries.
What was NATO?
People from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history.
Who were the Mongols?
One of the most valuable commodities added to the established trading systems by the trans-Saharan trade.
What was salt during 1450-1750?
Most influential to Revolutions/Declarations; believed people are born good, have natural rights, limited government, citizens have duty to overthrow bad governments.
Who was John Locke
Serbian nationalist/terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand which resulted in the start of World War I.
Who were Black Hand?
Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
What was the Green Revolution?
The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct. Made to restore traditional values and develop a caste system.
What is Confucianism?
He created strategy that helped mariners sail from Canaries to Portugal and sailed out of route until found a wind blowing in correct direction.
Who was Volta do mar?
A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political, social, and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Who were the British East India Company?
The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand.
Who was Gavrilo Princip?
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
What was the Cold War?
Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
Who was Marco Polo?
Papal efforts to unite western European elites against a common enemy of Christianity.
What was cause of The Crusades launched by European Christians at the end of the 11th century?
Leader of National Convention Mountain faction; executed anyone who supported monarchy, eventually arrested and executed.
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
There was the Central Powers. They had Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. The other guys, or the Allies, were the U.K., France, Russia, the U.S., and all of the European colonies in Africa. The Allies had allies like Portugal, Italy, Greece, Rumania, Serbia, and Libya too.
What were the WWI alliances?
Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
What is desertification?
Medieval people, whether Christians, Muslims, or Jews, perceived ethnicity largely in terms of religious affiliation. In religiously heterogeneous societies, religious minorities were perceived as ethnically differentiated units, no matter what the level of their general acculturation to dominant norms may have been. As scholars compiled histories, laws, and philosophical treatises, the main schools of legal thought emerged.
What scholarly and cultural transfers happened in Muslim and Christian Spain?
German princes were interested in the reformation of the church because there were opportunities for assertion of local control for them. Princes supported Martian Luther because of personal conviction but also because religious controversy offered opportunities for them to build their own power bases.
How did the Protestant Reformation affect
regional princes in Europe and their
relationship with the Church?
War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories; the victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China.
What was the Opium War?
Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books.
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
. He cut out many welfare and public works programs. He used the Strategic Defense Initiative to avoid conflict. His meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War.
Who was Ronald Reagan?