Neolithic to River Valley
Located in Tigris and Euphrates River
What is Mesopotamia?
This religion developed out of Hebrew Monotheism
What is Judaism?
Empires that created something that is still being used today.
What are classical empires?
Used his army made up of horses and fear in his name to conquer and connect Asia to Europe
Who is Genghis Khan?
1. Change in thought
2. No more religion
3. YOLO
4. Embraces realistic view on art
5. Rebirth
What is Renaissance?
1. Natural rights
2. Government exists to protect natural rights
3. People should have the power to overthrow government
Who is John Locke?
Development of mechanical devices and steam engines
What is the Age of Industrialism?
Based on ideas of liberty
No government in economy
Government plays little to no role in society
What is Liberalism?
Nationalistic revolution from Serbia and death of Archduke Ferdinand
What caused the First World War?
Big Three's met here to decide what to do with Europe after WWII.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This type of early society herded animals and was frequently mobile
What are pastoralists?
These are the two major world religions that started in India
What is Buddhism and Hinduism?
Double Jeopardy
This is the administrative technique used by the empires that created a government run by one person or entity
What is centralized government?
Porcelain, spices and textiles were traded from this area of the world
What is Asia?
This country led the charge in European exploration
What is Portugal?
Lack of representation caused the elites to lead this revolution
What is the American Revolution?
Forceful colonization to gain natural resources
What is imperialism?
Idea where decisions of politics and economics should be made by everyone
Forget competition, we need cooperation, where everyone work together to make everyone rich!
What is Socialism?
Digging major lines of ditches along the French Border
What is entrenchment warfare?
Create wall of countries to ensure Western countries are unaware of the activities in the Soviet Bloc.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Formation of gender inequality, social inequality and environmental problems
What is the worst mistake in humanity? aka Agricultural revolution.
This is more like a philosophy followed by the Chinese:
1. Ren
2. Xiao
What is Confucianism?
1. Rule through compromise
2. Let those who got conquered keep their religion
3. Show mercy to prisoners of war
What is Cyrus' assimilation strategy?
Travelers along this trade route relied heavily upon pack animals such as Camels
What is Trans-Saharan?
Economic system where it embraces:
1. Individualism
2. Competition
What is capitalism?
Revolution led by the common folks that ultimately lacked governmental stability and led to death of thousands
What is the French Revolution?
To give up their own culture to adopt that of Western Europeans
What is westernization?
Radical socialists, calling for violent war between working class and rich people, where everything belongs to the government and government decides who gets what and how much
What is communism?
Double or Nothing!
- Blamed Germany for starting the war
- Reduce German military down to 100,000
- Germany lost lands and their colonies
What is Treaty of Versailles?
Military commitment from US, to ensure Communism is contained in different parts of the world.
Conquering nearby civilizations to bring them under one's control for taxing purposes
What is an empire?
This religion initially encountered much resistance until it was accepted by the Roman government
What is Christianity?
Double Jeopardy
Collection of laws from the Byzantine empire that influenced the western legal system
What is Justinian Code?
Chinese innovations like papermaking and gunpowder were usually spread along the Silk Roads with the help of these people
What are the Mongols?
This theory, which said that Kings had absolute power over the people
What is absolutism?
Different from other revolutions, this revolution was led by the slaves against their slave masters
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Belief that it was the burden of Europeans to help rest of the world industrialize and become like them
What is White Man's Burden?
Intense commitment to one’s own cultural group and have pride in their own heritage
What is nationalism?
Britain and France utilized this strategy to allow Hitler to do what he wants, all to avoid another war.
What was appeasement?
Double Jeopardy
Creation of common currency, Euro, allowed for Western European nations to recover post-WWII.
What is the Revival of Western Europe?
Gupta India's attempt to create cities with governmental structures at the center of the city, sanitation systems and commercial buildings.
What is urbanization?
Religion that consists of multiple forms of gods
What is polytheism?
1. Black death wiped out commercial people
2. Germanic invasions
3. Barrack emperors
What is fall of the western Roman empire?
This Middle Eastern city grew primarily because of its location along a prominent trade route, during the Abbasid Caliphate
What is Baghdad?
The Europeans:
- Pigs, Horses, Cows, Smallpox
The Americans:
- Potato, Corn, Tomato
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Double Jeopardy
Grabbed the governmental power during time of confusion the start his own empire
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Based on Natural Selection of Charles Darwin where Europeans thought that they were the most fit to survive and rest of the world was beneath them
What is social Darwinism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
Artistic movement where it rejected the radical ideas of Enlightenment, and embraced passion, emotion, heroism and beauty of nature
What is romanticism?
Creation of Atomic Bomb, even the president did not know about this project.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Experimented with capitalism
Allowed limited free election in the Soviet Bloc
Single handily responsible for fall of USSR
Who is Gorbachev?