Period 1
1200-1450
1200-1450
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?