Unit 3: Gunpowder Land Empires
A shogun is...
What is an emperor (specifically in Japan)
Martin Luther nailed this many "theses" to the Catholic Church's door.
What is 95?
Sometimes called "The Age of Reason".
What is the Enlightenment?
The winner of the Russo-Japanese war.
Who is Japan?
Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.
The two main branches of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shia/Shiite
This person first discovered the Earth went around the Sun.
Who is Copernicus?
List these revolutions in chronological order:
- Latin American
- American
- French
- Haitian
What is
- American
- French
- Haitian
- Latin American
The belief that individuals achieve more than others by genetic or biological superiority
What is Social Darwinism?
Spread of Chinese culture, political ideas, social ideas, “becoming more Chinese”
What is Sinification?
List the three major gunpowder empires.
What are Ottomans, Mughals, Safavids.
The trade of textiles, slaves, weapons, and more between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is Triangular Trade?
The social class that was created due to the Industrial Revolution.
What is the middle class?
The meeting of European powers to lay claims to Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference? (or Berlin West Africa Conference)
What are the Silk Road, Trans Saharan, and Indian Ocean?
The Ottoman Janissaries were...
What is....
- captured Christian boys turned soldiers
- elite soldiers initially pulled from the Christian population
Something similar...
Economic theory that nations are most wealthy based on resources, not cold hard cash. (remember we debated pronunciation...)
What is Mercantilism?
Time period in France where enemies of the increasingly radical govt were arrested, tried, and executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The empire in control of India when the East India Trading Company showed up.
What is the Mughal Empire?
List the MAIN causes of WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
Peter the Great's height.
What is 6'7"
What early empire use the Mit’a System?
Mit'a - labor obligation was a form of public service to the state, similar to taxes
Who is the Incan Empire?
The man who led 6 South American countries to independence.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The name of the wars fought between Afrikaners and British in South Africa.
What are the Boer Wars?
List the three modern "Knowledge Economies".
Who are Finland, U.S., and Japan?