Units 1 & 2: Global Tapestry and Methods of Exchange
This belief system, founded by the philosopher for which it is named; emphasized social harmony, filial piety (respect for elders), and respect for authority/government in China.
What is Confucianism?
This maritime exchange connected the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492 and spread crops, animals, diseases, and people.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This economic system, promoted by Adam Smith, emphasizes free markets and limited government intervention.
What is Capitalism? (booooo!)
This alliance system divided Europe before World War I into the these two "Triple" groups. Name them.
What are the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance?
This ideology promoted loyalty to one’s nation and fueled both unification movements, self-determination of new countires, and global conflicts.
What is nationalism?
This vast trade network connected Afro-Eurasia and spread goods, religions, technologies, and diseases between East and West and is considered one of the foremost producers of cultural diffusion in the ancient and classical worlds.
What is the "Silk Road"?
This labor system used by Spain forced Indigenous people in the Americas and other colonies of theirs to work in mines and plantations as a way to "give back" to the empire.
What is the Encomienda system?
This invention by James Watt improved efficiency and helped to create a new source of power for factories and transportation during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Steam Engine?
This treaty officially ended World War I and placed both blame for the war and heavy reparation penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Japanese period featured rule by military leaders called shoguns, including the one for which it was named, who shut down Japan from trading with European nations.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
This empire under King Musa Keita I became wealthy from gold and salt trade prominent in Africa, and helped spread Islam, particularly in West Africa.
What is Mali?
This Ottoman ruler captured Constantinople in 1453 at only 20 years, marking the end of the Byzantine/Roman Empire.
Who is Sultan Mehmed II or "the Conqueror"?
This revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and resulted in the first successful slave revolt in history, headed by leader Toussaint L'Overture.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This leader used nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, an approach he called "Satyagraha" or "soul force" to challenge British rule in India.
Who is Mohandas/Mahatma Gandhi?
This Chinese leader launched the Chinese Civil War, Cultural Revolution, and Great Leap Forward, all from the period between 1949-1966.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This pandemic spread along trade routes after entering through the Italian port of Messina during the 14th century, and dramatically reduced populations across Afro-Eurasia.
What is the "Black Plague"/ "Black Death"/"Bubonic Plague"?
This ruler of the Mughal Empire in India turned it into a powerful, centralized state, and promoted religious tolerance through his policy of “universal peace", while he was at it! What a Great Guy!
Who is Akbar the Great?
This Enlightenment thinker argued in his "Two Treatises on Government" that people had "natural rights" to "life, liberty, and property" that absolute monarchs should not have any ability to make "alien" to them.
Who is John Locke?
This chilly rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union shaped global politics after World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990's.
What is the Cold War?
This conference between the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia, held after World War II divided Germany and shaped the postwar world order.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This Chinese dynasty is known for the Four Modernizations, which included gunpowder and paper money, but are also credited with the creation of Neo-Confucianism, and major commercial growth.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This Chinese dynasty restricted foreign influence while maintaining tributary relationships with other regions and was ruled by the "Manchu" people.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This Latin American revolutionary helped liberate modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (which is named after him) from Spanish rule.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This South African leader became a symbol of resistance against apartheid, serving 27 years in prison, and later became the first Black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This recurring historical process describes the movement of people from rural areas to growing cities during industrialization.
What is urbanization?