Early Stuff
This Chinese philosophy emphasized hierarchy, filial piety, and social order.
What is Confucianism?
This maritime power established trading-post empires in Africa and Asia.
What is Portugal?
This revolution that utilized the guillotine, overthrew the _________ monarchy in 1789.
What is the French monarchy?
World War I, or the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of this man.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This process involves movement from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This trans-Saharan empire was known for its wealth in gold and Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
This system granted Spanish settlers the right to extract labor from Indigenous people.
What is the encomienda system?
This innovation powered factories and trains during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
This global economic crisis began with a stock market crash in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
What was the big farming crisis on the American Great Plains referred to as?
FDR's response?
This term describes increasing global interconnectedness.
What is globalization?
This network connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and China.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
This global transfer spread crops like potatoes and maize worldwide.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What if you had a Long Essay Question on this topic? Can you supply two or three ex's of how new products might effect the new or old world?
This ideology called for the overthrow of capitalist systems.
What is communism (Marxism)?
This Cold War policy aimed to limit the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This economic system is based on private ownership and markets.
What is capitalism?
This American empire built an extensive road system across the Andes.
What is the Inca Empire?
This empire in India blended Persian, Islamic, and Indian traditions.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This Japanese reform effort rapidly industrialized the country.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This leader founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Who is the economic reform leader in China in the late 1970's?
Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms.
This environmental issue is linked to rising global temperatures.
What is climate change?
Renewable resources? Ex's?
Fossil Fuels? Ex's?
This traveler from Morocco documented his journeys across Dar al-Islam and beyond.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This joint-stock company dominated Dutch trade in Asia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This European country was the first to industrialize during the Industrial Revolution?
What was England?
Why? What factors aided this?
This Cold War conflict took place 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the conflict all about? The outcome?
An international treaty adopted in 1997 (and entered into force in 2005) under the UNFCCC, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.
What was the Kyoto Protocol?