Economies
The only known route to transport goods from Asia to Europe before the Age of Exploration.
What is the Silk Road?
Social institution characteristic of feudalism under which a small minority of families enjoy many privileges.
What is nobility?
Irish mass migration to the United States was caused by this event.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
A noble lord holding land in the name of a monarch or higher ranked noble, owing their loyalty in exchange for their piece of land.
What is a vassal?
The native people of the Yucatan peninsula who used its dense jungles to resist colonization.
Who are the Maya?
Portuguese colonialism was facilitated by the papacy's granting of this territory in the Americas.
What is Brazil?
The reworked spiritual system of the Song Dynasty.
What is Neoconfucianism?
The country which first made successful widespread use of transnational corporations.
What is Great Britain?
The Song Dynasty and the Aztecs both relied on this to project power from their capital.
What is a tribute system?
Europeans were eager to grow this cash crop, originally grown in the Middle East, in the Caribbean's tropical environment.
What is sugarcane?
Medieval Networks of Exchange pre-1450 primarily excluded this Old World continent from competitive trade.
What is Europe?
The official religious tradition of the Russian Empire.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
The first stock exchanges relied on this modern infrastructure to function.
What are telegraphs?
Following the Enlightenment, this nation took the lead in spreading abolitionism in the Atlantic world by attacking and liberating slave ships.
What is Great Britain?
This land-based empire expanded its governance across its interior regions using railroads.
What is Russia?
Italian trade with the Eastern Mediterranean suffered following the conquest of this ancient city in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
Women were first granted the right to divorce, receive child support, and inherit property in this country.
What is France?
The "Second Industrial Revolution" was characterized by the spread of this fuel source.
What is oil/petroleum?
Attempts to ally with France's rivals to restore absolutism led this French King to be executed by guillotine.
The source of much of the silver being traded to China during the age of colonialism.
What is South America?
The ability to own one's invention was formalized by this concept.
What is a patent?
Germany & Italy formed as countries during the 1800s largely due to this ideology demanding strong states for major ethnic groups.
What is nationalism?
Agricultural output during the Industrial Revolution was first increased by this simple invention.
What is the seed drill?
The influence of powerful corporate monopolies over government is represented by this country's "Gilded Age" dominated by business magnates.
What is the United States?
Poor sanitation and sewage systems led to the proliferation of this illness associated with contaminated water.
What is cholera?