Early Modern Empires
This empire, founded by Babur, ruled much of the Indian subcontinent and was known for its cultural syncretism.
What is the Mughal Empire?
The Opium wars were fought between Britain and this country over trade imbalances and sovereignty.
What is China?
The spread of this religious through trade and conquest unified much of Afro-Eurasia.
What is Islam?
This wall symbolized the division between East and West during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This early modern labor system in Russia required peasants to work land owned by nobles.
What is serfdom?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This empire in West Africa thrived on gold-salt trade and had cities like Timbuktu.
This country led the charge in European exploration.
What is Portugal?
This 15th-century invention by Gutenberg transformed literacy and learning.
What is the printing press?
This 1941 event led to the United States entering World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This was the prevailing economic philosophy of European maritime empires.
What is mercantilism?
This 20th-century economic system involves the government controlling the means of production and distribution of goods.
What is socialism?
This 20th-century migration involved the relocation of 12 million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
What is the Partition of India?
The Europeans established this trade system that resembles a triangle.
What is the Atlantic Trade?
This German monk started the Protestant Reformation in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
This 1939 event marked the beginning of World War II.
What is the invasion of Poland?
This French revolutionary leader rose to power after the Revolution and declared himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
After World War II, this international organization was founded to promote peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
The Ottoman Empire captured this city in 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
This political upheaval in Japan came as a result of Western powers trying to open the country from isolation.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This revolution challenged geocentrism and emphasized obersevation and reason.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This ideology promotes extreme nationalism and dictatorial rule.
What is fascism?
This split in Christianity occured in 1054 between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
What is the Great Schism?
This 19th-century ideology supported minimal government interference in the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This dynasty restored Chinese rule after defeating the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This type of service involved working to repay a debt, often used by Europeans in colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
This Chinese philosophy emphasizes filial piety and social harmony.
What is Confucianism?
Hitler's 1935 laws stripped German Jews of citizenship.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
This conflict between France and England was fought in the 14th and 15th centuries over ownership of French lands.
What was the Hundred Years' War?
This rigid social hierarchy in India is based on hereditary occupation and ritual purity.
What is the caste system?
This Russian leader expanded eastward into Siberia during the 16th century?
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
King Leopold II of this European country was notorious for his brutal role in the Congo.
What is Belgium?
This rebellion in China, led by anti-foreign nationalists, weakened Qing control.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This 1950s war ended in a stalemate, dividing a nation at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
Signed by King John in 1215, this was the first document in England that limited the power of the government.
What is the Magna Carta?
This test was administered to determine who was fit for a position in the Chinese bureaucracy.