1200-1453
This religion during 1200- 1450 saw a flourishing of intellectual and artistic achievements, with Islamic scholars preserving and building upon existing knowledge in science, medicine, and literature.
What is Dar Al Islam
The city, which had been the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell after a 53-day siege.
What is Constantinople
A transformative intellectual and cultural movement that dominated Europe in the 18th century, emphasizing reason, individualism, and progress
what is the enlightenment
A conflict where a third-party power supports opposing sides in a conflict without directly engaging in the fighting themselves. Ex. Vietnam
What is a proxy war
These land-based trade routes connected East Asia to the Mediterranean, passing through Central Asia and the Middle East. They facilitated the exchange of goods like silk, porcelain, and spices, as well as ideas, technologies, and cultural practices.
What is the silk road
The global movement of goods by sea, playing a crucial role in international trade and the global economy.
What is Maritime Trade
An ideology that emphasizes loyalty and devotion to a nation, often prioritizing national interests above individual or group interests
What is Nationalism
The weapon that ended world war two and could end everything in existence
What is the Nuclear Bomb
This empire led by Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. This empire stretched across vast areas of Eurasia, influencing trade and cultural exchange.
What is the Mongol empire
The forced migration of Africans to the Americas to labor on plantations became a central feature of the global economy.
What is transatlantic slave trade
A shift from agricultural economies to industrial ones, marked by the widespread use of machinery, factories, and new manufacturing techniques.
What is the industrial revolution
Two major policies implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the late 1980s aimed at reforming the political and economic systems.
What is glasnost and perestroika
This area served as a major trade network, connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia trough boats and wind patterns.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade route.
It followed the Yuan Dynasty and is known for achievements in art, trade, and exploration, as well as for the construction of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.
What is the Ming Dynasty
a successful slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) that led to the abolition of slavery and the establishment of an independent country
What is the Hattian Revolution
A term made in 1946 to describe the political, ideological, and physical division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern Bloc and the Western democracies following World War II
What is The iron curtain
Known for its wealth derived from gold and salt trade, led by figures like Mansa Musa, controlled critical trade routes across West Africa and became a center of Islamic scholarship and culture.
What is the Mali Empire
The exchange of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia) and the New World (the Americas) had profound demographic, economic, and cultural consequences.
What is the Colombian exchange
A powerful machine that could power various applications, including manufacturing, ships, and railway locomotives.
What is a Steam engine
This event triggered a chain reaction of events due to existing regional tensions, the alliance system, and other long-term factors to start WW1
What is the assassination of f Archduke Franz Ferdinand