UNIT 1-2
What type of crop was sent to the Song Dynasty that allowed two harvest in one season?
Champa Rice
What is maritime trade?
The transport of goods overseas
What is the Enlightenment?
A philosophical movement which started in Europe in the 1700's and spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method.
What sparked the beginning of WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Why were antibiotics invented?
To be able to cure bacterial infections.
What was the benefits of the installment of Pax Mongolica?
Unparalleled levels of communication and trade between China and Europe
Name all three gunpowder empires.
Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals
Provide the definition of the term, "Settler Colonies."
Colonizers who invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers.
What kind of war did both world wars have?
Total Wars
What is the Green Revolution?
A possible long-term response to hunger.
What is the Bhakti Movement?
A movement emphasizing the mutual intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward a personal god and of the god for the devotee.
What was the Ottoman's Islamic belief?
Sunni
Provide the definition of the term, "cash crops."
A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
Provide one example of terrorism in the United States in the period 1900-2000s.
9/11
What did the Green Party support?
Environmental growth.
State and define the political and social system used in Europe around 1200-1450s?
Feudalism, the dominant social system in Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, while the peasants were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him labor and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Columbian exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Western Hemisphere, and Afro-Eurasia in the late 15th and following centuries.
What was palm oil used for?
Lubricating the machines during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the purpose behind the Non-Aligned Movement?
The Non-Aligned Movement was founded in 1961 with the view to advancing interests of developing countries in the context of Cold War confrontation.
Why was Weibo in China issued to the people?
It was a substitute to social media platforms banned in China.
What was the great stone wall made in Africa during the 13th century called?
Great Zimbabwe.
What did the monk Martin Luther accomplish?
Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation with the publication of his Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517.
What are "Spheres of Influence"?
A settlement that allowed Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia all to claim exclusive trading rights with specific areas of China.
Why was the Great Leap Forward organized?
In order to meet China's industrial and agricultural problems.
What did Albert Sabin's polio vaccine accomplish?
It successfully prevented the intestinal infection and provided lifetime protection.