1200-1450
This trade network connected China, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean and carried luxury goods.
What is the Silk Roads?)
Name a ship design or navigation tool that helped make transoceanic travel possible.
What is the caravel, compass, astrolabe cartography etc.?
Name one key invention of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine, water frame, spinning Jenny, telegraph, telephone, steel etc.?
Name one major cause of World War I.
What is militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism?
Define "mercantilism" in one short sentence.
What is a state-driven economic policy to maximize exports and accumulate wealth?
Name one technology or commercial practice that increased trade volume on the Trans Saharan Routes.
What is the camel, camel saddle, caravans, oasis, higher demand etc.?
What is the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
Give one political or ideological cause behind Atlantic revolutions.
What is Enlightenment ideas about natural rights, popular sovereignty, equality, separation of powers etc.?
What was a major effect of the Cold War on newly independent states?
What is alignment with US or USSR, proxy wars, or nonaligned movement?
What does "syncretism" mean in cultural or religious contexts? Give one example.
What is the blending of beliefs or practices from different traditions? Ex. Voodoo, Sikhism, Neo-Confucianism etc.
Identify a major state or empire in the Dar al-Islam during this period and one way it supported intellectual life.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate / House of Wisdom or patronage of scholars?
Give one reason European states sponsored long-distance maritime exploration in the 15th–17th centuries.
What is to find new trade routes, acquire wealth, establish trading posts/colonies, spread Christianity etc?
Explain one way industrialization affected family or gender roles.
What is middle-class working-class women and children often worked in factories, less time as a family, etc.?
Give one environmental or public health impact of 20th-century globalization.
What is spread of disease, pollution, climate change, etc.?
Define capitalism. Who was the person who devised this concept.
What is an economic system based on mechanized production and private ownership seeking profit? Who is Adam Smith.
Explain one political continuity Song China changed between 1200 and 1450.
What is an imperial bureaucracy, civil service exam, emperor, tribute states etc.?
Name two gunpowder Empires and explain one difference between them?
What are the Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans? Differences may vary.
Identify one motive and one method used in 19th-century imperialism.
What is demand for motive:raw materials, Christianity, political rivalries etc.; method: military force, treaties, or chartered companies?
Identify one technological change in global communication in the 20th–21st centuries and describe its impact.
What is development of radio, then internet/cellular networks that reduced distance barriers? Other Mrs. Lashley approved answers allowed.
What is "colonialism" as a historical practice? Give one specific example from 1750-1900.
What is the policy by which a state maintains or extends control over foreign territories and peoples? Examples approved my Mrs. Lashley.
Compare two different forms of state formation from c.1200–c.1450 (one example from Afro-Eurasia and one from the Americas) and give one similarity.
Answer must be Mrs. Lashley approved.
Describe one continuity and one change in labor systems between 1450 and 1750.
What is continuity: coerced and peasant labor persisted; change: Atlantic chattel slavery and rise of plantation economies? Other answers can also be accepted by Mrs. Lashley
Explain one cause and one effect of large-scale migration in the 19th century.
What is cause: demand for labor, economic opportunity; effect: ethnic enclaves, demographic shifts in destination regions, discrimination?
Explain how decolonization after WWII reshaped political boundaries and one consequence.
What is creation of new states like India/Pakistan; consequence: population displacement, border disputes, or migration? other Mrs. Lashley approved answers allowed.
Name 3 leaders of decolonization and which countries they led the movement in.
Who was...? Must be Mrs. Lashley approved.