Units 1/2
This trade route connected East Asia to Europe
What is the Slik Road?
This empire was ruled by Akbar and promoted religious tolerance
What is the Mughal Empire?
Enlightenment thinkers believed in this idea
What are natural rights?
The incident that caused the start of WWI
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These two superpowers competed during the Cold War
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This religion spread through trade in the Indian Ocean
What is Islam?
This system moved enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
This revolution started in 1789 in France
This alliance included Germany, Italy, and Japan during the World War
What are the Axis powers?
This organization helps countries trade globally
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
This system in China selected officials based on exams
What is the Civil service exam system?
This empire used gunpowder and was located in Persia
What is the Safavid Empire?
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This invention made factory production faster and powered machines
What is the steam engine?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism
What is containment?
Explain one economic effect of the Slik Road
Increased trade of luxury goods which made the economy grow
Explain one cause of European maritime exploration
Desire for wealth, new trade routes, or spreading Christianity
This document declared American independence from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This economic system is based on private ownership and profit
What is capitalism?
This agreement reduced trade barriers between countries (Mexico, United States, and Canada)
What is NAFTA (free trade agreements)?
Explain one effect of increased trade networks from 1200-1450
Spread of religion and technology
Compare how land based empires and maritime empires expanded their power
Land based empires expanded through military conquest, while maritime empires expanded through naval power and overseas colonization
Explain one similarity between the American and French Revolution
Both inspired by the Enlightenment ideas
Compare WWI and WWII in terms of causes
Both caused by militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism (M.A.I.N)
Compare the Cold War and WWII in terms of conflict style
WWII was direct fighting while the Cold War was indirect fighting/proxy wars