UNIT 1&2
This trade route connected Eurasia
What is the Silk Road
Chinese technology that facilitated the conquering of new land-based empires
What is gunpowder?
The transfer of crops, animals, and slaves between the New World and the Old World
Colombian Exchange
A technological advancement that allowed for the shift from manual labor to automation through factories, increasing production and causing urbanization.
What is Industrialization?
A result of a industrial boom, causing increased greenhouse carbon emissions
What is Climate Change
The Tribute system
What is a system where smaller states provide stronger states goods for protection
System Ottomans used to keep their military strong
What are Janissaries
The Colombian Exchange accidentally spread this
What is Disease?
Germany is now in severe debt, and has been demilitarized
What are the effects of the Treaty of Versailles
Indirect conflict between the US and USSR over competing ideologies
What is the Cold War
The position of the Mali Empire along this trade route was the cause of its wealth
What is the Trans Saharan trade route
Took over the entirety of Eurasia in the 13th century, policing and protecting trade routes
Who are the Mongols
The first to establish trading colonies and posts with India
Who is the Portuguese Empire
Effects of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
What is the kickstart to WW1 through intense nationalism and alliance building
Alliances created due to rising tensions after WWII
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Period of time where the Mongols took over and policed trade routes, making them safer
What is Pax Mongolica
How the Ottomans Expanded
What are new innovations in gunpowder technology, and strategic military campaigns
New crops in the Colombian Exchange caused this
What is sustained population increase due to new vitamins and calories available in new crops
European industrialization created a demand for raw materials, causing political domination over Africa and Asia
What is the Imperialism / the Scramble for Africa
How the US becomes a global superpower
What is not fighting WWII on their mainland allowing them to manufacture and sell weapons
This heavily influenced government and social hierarchy in East Asia
What is Confucianism
How the Mongols used to dominated combat
What is the use of horses and bows and arrows to remain mobile and quick
Cause of the French Revolution
What is 3rd estate unhappy with the severe financial crisis in France, along with a corrupt king not doing anything to fix it and the 2% of wealthy owning almost all land
What is a result of the imperialism of Africa and creation of political borders without regard for existing and rival ethnic groups
Cause of decolonization movements
What is colonies angry with colonial rule after being promised freedom / self rule when fighting in WWI & WWII