Period 1
1200-1450
1200-1450
This Mongol ruler created the largest land-based empire in history, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Ghengis Khan?
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old World and the New World following Christopher Columbus's voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This event transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What is World War II?
The most popular religion in the world. It emphasizes the teachings of a carpenter named Jesus Christ.
What is Christianity?
The oldest still-practiced religion in the world. Believed to have originated from the Indus River Valley.
What is Hinduism?
This Empire ruled over modern-day Peru. Famous for building the longest and most impressive road system in history.
What is the Inca Empire?
He co-authored the Communist Manifesto with German political theorist Frederick Engels.
Who is Karl Marx?
Who is Mao Zedong?
English political philosopher, famous for his work titled Leviathan. He believed that governments exist to provide security from the state of nature.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This Chinese dynasty was considered a Golden Age due to its advancements in technology, culture, and commerce.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This Mughal Emperor was renowned for his military conquests, which significantly expanded the Mughal Empire, and his promotion of religious tolerance and cultural synthesis.
Who is Akbar the Great?
Toussaint L'ouverture led this successful slave revolt on the island of San Dominique.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This economic plan was implemented by the United States to help rebuild a post-war Europe that was under the threat of growing socialist influence.
What is the Marshall Plan?
A pivotal period in Japanese history, marking a dramatic shift from a feudal, isolated nation to a modern, imperial power. It involved the restoration of the Emperor to the central role in governance, replacing the Tokugawa shogunate.
This city in southeastern Africa was famous for being a massive trading hub. It was also known for its great enclosure, which was constructed with advanced stone masonry.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This movement caused religious, political, and intellectual upheaval in Europe that resulted in the creation of new Christian denominations, diverging from the Roman Catholic Church due to disagreements on doctrine and practices
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Belgian ruler of the Congo Free State. Who used the nation as his own personal colonial project, resulting in the deaths of millions of Congolese people.
Who is King Leopold the II?
A period of significant technological advancements in agriculture, primarily from the 1940s to the late 1960s, that dramatically increased food production, particularly in developing countries.
What is the Green Revolution?
He was one of the most extensive travelers in pre-modern history. His travels, documented in the Rihla, provided a rich source of information about life in the medieval Muslim world.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
These elite Ottoman troops were comprised of Christian youths who were taken from the Balkans and converted to Islam.
What are Janissaries?
This Polish Astronomer is renowned for proposing a heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
He was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of the Americas and who strove to protect the basic rights of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?