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a Confucian concept derived from Chinese culture, which advocates a set of moral norms, values, and practices of respect and caring for one's parents.
What is Filial Piety?
a political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen.
What is Fascism?
floating gardens of Mexico.
What are chinampas?
What is Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism?
this exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service and peasants were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce.
What is Feudalism
This event c early 19th century was the first ever successful rebellion led by enslaved people.
What is the Hattian Revolution?
The unveiling of this weapon ended World War II and started the arms race during the Cold War.
What are nuclear weapons? (also accepted: Atomic Bomb)
a movement that emphasized the importance of reason or logic, rights to freedom, and separation of church and state.
What is the Enlightenment?
A tax on non-Muslims, used by the Ottoman Empire and Sultanates of modern India.
What is the Jizya Tax?
an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one's birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status originating in India
What is the Caste System (Caste)?
This Confucianism aligned test was used until the end of the 19th century to determine who was eligible to serve in the government in China.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
classic Chinese sailing vessel of ancient unknown origin, still in wide use. High-sterned, with projecting bow, the junk carries up to five masts on which are set square sails consisting of panels of linen or matting flattened by bamboo strips.
What is the Junk?
the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
What is Syncretism?
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
What encomienda?
a Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This industrial revolution invention was eventually replaced by the combustion engine and electricity and was powered by water and coal.
What is the steam engine?
communities were set up by merchants to preserve and introduce their own cultural traditions into other cultures.
What are Diasporic Communities?
the dominant 16th century economic system based in trade that relied on a colony sending natural resources to the mother country, which created goods to sell back to the colonies and the rest of the globe.
member of the old aristocracy in Russia
What are boyars?
King Louis XIV used this location to live and monitor nobility, ensuring their loyalty because he always had eyes on them.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
originally developed by the Han Dynasty, this invention allowed European sailors to have better control of the direction of their ships c. 15th century.
What is the Sternpost Rudder?
A system of payment in which conquered peoples pay a tribute to the conqueror to show their superiority over the land. The system was put into place in the Americas by the Aztecs and was later copied by other American civilizations.
What is the Tribute System?
hereditary tax collector who could retain 10 percent of the revenue he collected in the Mughal Empire and was made landowning aristocrats by the British in the late 18th century.
What is a Zamindar?