If you were a member of the Safavid Empire, what modern day country would you live in?
Iran
Who sponsored a navigation school for the Portuguese to search for a sea route to India?
Henry the Navigator
In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
Who rebelled against the British in India?
sepoys
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Name the Chinese dynasty that followed the Mongol rule?
Ming
Name one of several conquistadors that conquered natives in America
Pizzaro
Cortez
What document was inspired by Enlightenment thinkers and the American Declaration of Independence?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
This rebellion in China was led by a group who wanted to expel all foreign influence during the Qing Dynasty
The Boxer Rebellion of 1900
Who was the communists leader that led Vietnamese forces against the French and the Americans?
Ho Chi Minh
Which land based empire based in South Asia lasted until the 1800s when it was defeated at the hands of the British
Mughal Empire
What precious metal made it's way out of Mexico after being mined by the Spanish, transported by the Portuguese, and bought by the Chinese
Silver
What were the two social classes that emerged from the Industrial Revolution?
The Meiji Restoration in Japan was responsible for transforming what part of the country?
economy, military, and eventually government (emperor worship)
What policy did the Allies use against Hitler leading up to World War II?
appeasement
What system took young Christian boys and turned them into Muslim soldiers and scholars?
Devshirme System
Which ocean based empire established trading posts along the coast of Africa
Portugal
This ideological response to revolution believed that people should return to absolute monarchy, but eventually accepted constitutional monarchies
conservatism
What tribe did the British and Dutch fight in South Africa?
Zulu
Name one cause of World War 1
The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinad
Military Alliances
Nationalism
Imperalism
Industrilization
The Inca
What agricultural innovation allowed the Aztecs to support a large population in the capital of Tenochiticlan?
Who was influential in creating the new German state by using the method realpolitik?
Otto Von Bismark
Name one migrant ethnic enclave in response to Industrialization around the world
Chinese in SE Asia
Indians in East and Southern Africa
Irish in North America
Italians in North and South America
Name one policy that de-escalated Cold War tensions during the period 1945 to 1991
glasnost
perestroika
detente
SALT I or SALT II