This belief system dominated Song China and reinforced hierarchy.
Neo-Confucianism
This trade network connected China to the Mediterranean, selling luxury items.
Silk Roads
This empire used the devshirme system to recruit soldiers.
Ottoman Empire
This Enlightenment thinker argued people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
This event sparked World War I when a political leader was assassinated.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This system in Europe was based on land exchange for loyalty and service.
Feudalism
These winds powered Indian Ocean trade routes.
Monsoon Winds
This Mughal ruler promoted religious tolerance.
Akbar
This revolution was led by enslaved people in the Caribbean.
Haitian Revolution
This treaty ended World War I and punished Germany.
Treaty of Versailles
This African empire became wealthy through the gold-salt trade and was ruled by Mansa Musa.
Mali
This deadly disease spread along trade routes and killed millions.
Black Death
This exchange transferred crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
Columbian Exchange
This country was the first to industrialize.
Great Britain
This ideology led by Hitler controlled Germany during WWII.
Fascism
This empire in the Americas used a tribute system and controlled Tenochtitlán.
Aztec Empire
Roadside inns on overland routes that provided lodging, storage, information-sharing, and relative safety, reducing long-distance travel costs and risks. This labor system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish colonists.
Caravanserai
This labor system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish colonists.
Encomienda System
This ideology justified imperialism by claiming some races were superior.
Social Darwinism
This conflict between the U.S. and USSR was based on ideology and avoided direct war.
Cold War
This Chinese system selected government officials based on merit.
Civil Service Exam
This trade route connected West Africa to North Africa through the desert.
Trans-Saharan trade route
This system describes the forced migration of Africans to the Americas as part of global trade networks.
Atlantic slave trade
This economic theory, created by Karl Marx, argued that workers would overthrow the capitalist system.
Communism
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
Containment