UNIT 1
A fast-ripening, drought resistant strain of rice that allowed agricultural expansion in Asia just before the 11th century.
Champa Rice
Vast commercial trade networks across Eurasia that saw the first use of magnetic compasses and currency.
The Silk Road
Large, multi-ethnic states in Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories
Gunpowder Empires
Identify one advancement in maritime technology that allowed for global exploration
Astronomical chart
Compass
Lateen sail
New boats
Understanding of waves and gravity
A movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that focus on individualism, self-determination, and freedom
The Enlightenment
The term used for when one country asserts political or social power over another one for economic gain
Imperialism
Believed that the means of production should be controlled collectively and lead to equal society
Communism
Who were the TWO world powers after WWII?
USSR and USA
The idea that men hold the higher social standing in society
Patriarchy
In the 14th century Mansa Musa took a trip to this city which is the holiest city in Islam
Mecca
European political philosophy created by King Louis XVI that kings were the ruler of the state and church.
Divine Right of Kings
Dynasty in China in the 15th century that limited Chinese trade for the dissolution of foreign influence
Ming Dynasty
A new means of transportation that stretched from that allowed to occur faster and quicker travel in Europe. This development created large steel, coal, and iron industries.
Railroad
Name two transportation advancements that happened during the Industrial Revolution
Railroads and Steamships
The time of global economic downturn that can be marked by the stock market crash and German reparations
The Great Depression
What is the pattern of communism
2. Land Reform
3. Hunger/ Poverty
4. Revolution
A series of European military campaigns in the Middle East to spread Christianity from 1095 to the 1200s
The Crusades
Name one export from East Africa in the Indian Ocean Trade
Gold, Ivory, Animal Skins, Quartz
This group of people were used to collect taxes as a means of kings consolidating their power.
Elites
A revolt from the Pueblo and Apache that killed Spaniards for spreading religion in North America
Pueblo Revolt
After the industrial revolution these calls for changes were warranted due to the conditions of factories and the increased role of women.
Social Reforms
The name of the loss of potato crops in Ireland that forced 3 million Irish to migrate in 4 years
The Great Famine/The Irish Potato Famine
The agreement signed by European nations after WWI that blamed Germany for the war and forced them to. demilitarize and pay reparations
Treaty of Versailles
Program in which the United States attempted to stop the spread of communism
Containment
A trade route in the 12th to 15th centuries that connected ports from East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. Grew due to maritime technology.
The Indian Ocean Trade
For 700 years, this trade route brought significant wealth to West Africa as well as spread Islam through Africa. Known for Gold or Salt
The trans-Saharan Trade
Religious movement led to the rise of Protestantism and the breaking away of the Catholic Church
Protestant Reformation
Economy driven by gold and silver
Mercantilism
Corporations that gain so much power that they are the sole company influencing a market
Monopoly
The use of skull size and musclar build to determine superiority (FAKE SCIENCE)
Psuedoscience
Laws in Germany that targeted Jews and forced them into ghettos and barred them from specific jobs.
Nuremberg Laws
The side of Vietnam and Korea that the West backed militarily
The South
Name for religions that are blending or combining.
Syncretic religion
The plague between 1347 and 1351 that wipeout up to 25 million Europeans
The Black Death/Bubonic plague
The conflict that occurred between the Ottomans and the Safavids
Sunni Shi'a Split
The type of trade between North America, Africa, and Europe that traded slaves, firearms, and other resources between the three
Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangle trade
Inventor of the telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
The war that broke out between China and Britain that forced the Chinese to trade with Britain. This war was over a drug crisis in China that was causing widespread addiction and death.
Opium War
The process of European and Asian countries leaving their colonies in Africa
decolonization
What was the nickname for The Strategic Defense Initiative this was the plan of Ronald Reagan to prevent nuclear missiles from hitting the United States
Star Wars
Name of region known as : Everything that Islam touches
Dar-Al Islam
The leader of the Mongolian Kingdom beginning 1206. Known as the Great Khan
Genghis Khan
A Chinese political ideology that justified the rule of the emperor or king. The belief that god had given the emperor the right to rule.
Mandate of Heaven
This rivalry was responsible for the cause of exploration by Europeans
Omani-European Rivalry
Revolution in Latin American that was led by elites differing from other revolts led by those who were lower on the social hierarcy.
Creole Revolution
The conference among European powers that divided up Africa for spheres of influence in 1884. Famous for creating the "Scramble for Africa"
Berlin Conference
He was assassinated in 1914 and was the cause for Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The metaphorical line drawn between Eastern and Western Europe by Winston Churchill after WWII
The Iron Curtain
a social structure that divides a population into a hierarchy of classes based on birth and the ideal of Hinduism.
Caste System
The term used for settlements of people away from their homeland. When these people move they bring their cultural practices with them.
Diaspora
These two movements that occurred at the end of the 17th century that focused on humanism would become the inspiration for The Enlightment
The Renaissance
The Scientific Revolution
Disease brought by conquistadores to the Americas that wiped out significant populations of natives
Smallpox
A change in society that was marked by a rapid growth in technology and social change in the 18th century
Industrial Revolution
The forced relocation of Native Americans by Congress in 1830 from the East to what is now modern day Oklahoma
Indian Removal Act
Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico that brought the US into WWI
Zimmermann Telegram
What does M.A.D stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction