Gunpowder Empires
This empire, founded by Babur in 1526, ruled much of the Indian subcontinent and is famous for the Taj Mahal.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This religion, founded in the 6th century BCE by Siddhartha Gautama, teaches the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
Caravanserrais
This 1914 assassination in Sarajevo is widely considered the immediate trigger of World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
What was the system involving the capturing of janissaries?
Devshirme system
What religion influenced early Japan, led to their architecture, and led to their preservation through isolationism?
Shintoism
Name three ship improvements that allowed for increase sailing via trade and transport
Stream engine, steer, rudder, lateen sails, maps, astrolabe
Name the three things that got America involved in WWI?
Zimmerman Telegram, Impressment, Blockades of resources
Joint stock companies
Mughal, Saffavid, Ottoman
What religion established the Delhi Sultinate?
Islam, not to be confused with Hinduism
What allowed Indian Ocean trade without the crashing of ships?
Knowledge of monsoon winds and/or cartography
What instigated the Spanish-American War?
The exploding of the American ship in Cuba - we took a lot of Spanish territory (Cuba, Guam, Philippines, etc.)
This system, in which European nations dominated trade for the benefit of the mother country, shaped colonial economic policy from the 16th–18th centuries.
What is mercantalism?
All three major gunpowder empires — Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal — practiced this religion, though the Safavids followed a distinct branch.
What is Islam? (Safavids were Shia; Ottomans and Mughals were Sunni)
This ancient collection of documents contains the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, central to both Judaism and Christianity.
What is the Torah?
Which explorers mapped Asia and Europe and allowed for increased knowledge via their diaries?
Marco Polo and Ibn Inbuttuta
They weren't Aryan and he blamed them for the fiscal crisis (Rothschild Jewish bankers)
He also targeted gay people, paralyzed, and anyone who wasn't blonde and blue eyed
What spread via trade and led to not only the failed influence of the monarchy, but the failure of the fuedal system?
Bubonic plague
What led to the downfall of the Mughal Empire?
Corruption, debt from war, British East India Company
What religion influence the civil service exam?
NEO-Confucianism
Gunpowder was first developed in this country during the Tang Dynasty, originally for use in fireworks and medicine.
What is China?
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This joint-stock company, founded in 1602, became one of the world's first multinational corporations and dominated Asian trade for nearly 200 years.
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?