1200-1450
The three major Gunpowder Empires
What are the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals?
What are the Atlantic System, the Triangular Trade, and the Transatlantic Trade.
The factors that made Britain the first nation to be able to industrialize
What are abundant rivers, intellectual protection laws, coal deposits, a powerful navy and colonial markets?
The five major empires of the world in the period 1750-1900
What are Britain, Japan, France, the USA and the Dutch?
The major economic system replacing mercantilism that values private ownership, laissez-faire and was the brainchild of Adam Smith
What is capitalism?
The major government ideas of China
What are the Mandate of Heaven, the dynastic cycle, meritocracy and the Civil Service Exam?
The goal of later exploration efforts by the British and French
What is the Northwest Passage?
The first major industry to industrialize
What is the textile industry?
The eight major resources all imperial nations sought to control for industrial purposes
What are iron, palm oil, gold/silver, diamonds, tin, copper, cotton and rubber?
The major ideology that saw the world as inherently in a class struggle between the proletariat working class and the middle-class/rich bourgeoise and advocated for a violent seizing of the means of production for an equitable society
What is communism?
The three major travelers of this era
Who is Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo and Margery Kempe?
This sexually-transmitted disease, carried from the Americas to Europe, is sometimes referred to as "Montezuma's Revenge" and causes mental degradation over time
What is syphilis?
The phase of industrialization in which new sources of fuel such as oil and new technologies like electronic communications are developed and discovered
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
The most recent era of imperial expansion after the initial exploration phase in which nations sought increased natural resources and competed more intensely over land
What is New Imperialism?
The ideology advocated by John Stuart Mill in which social change could be affected for the greatest amount of people possible at a given time
What is Utilitarianism?
The major exchange upon which the Europeans were able to connect with the wider Eurasian world
What is the Silk Road?
What is colonialism/colonial empires?
The major Egyptian ruler that promoted European-style militaries, schools and the government ownership of lands for factories
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The Japanese program of industrial and political modernization to prevent the nation's colonization by European powers
What is the Meiji Restoration?
The three major types of labor that resulted in mass migration during this time period within and without of empires
What are indentured servitude, penal labor and contract labor?
This was the idea of Tamerlane that the Gunpowder Empire modeled their cultural systems on, in which Muslims descended from nomadic peoples are uniquely powerful and suited to conquering the world
What is the ghazi ideal?
The major Enlightenment philosopher that advocated for natural rights
Who is John Locke?
What is Tanzimat?
The major cause of the increased use of refrigeration on steamships
What is increased demand for meat and dairy from the new industrial middle class?
An arrangement in which European powers subjugated China economically after the Opium Wars without having to colonize it specifically
What are spheres of influence?