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Mausoleum built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan that illustrates syncretic blend between Indian and Arabic architectural styles.
What is the Taj Mahal?
The concept that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God
What is Divine Right?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus' voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s whereby Africa sent slaves to the Americas, the Americas sent raw materials to Europe, and Europe sent guns and rum to Africa in exchange for slaves.
What is Triangular Trade?
Economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and was later exploited by the Spanish as they forced Incas to mine silver.
What is the Mita System?
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Luigi Mangione was charged with the murder of the CEO of this health insurance company.
What is United Healthcare?
Paintings that show the racial mixing of a family and the hierarchy of society.
What are Casta paintings?
Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Term used to describe the devastating demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas.
What is the Great Dying?
A British joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism.
What is British East India Company?
Religious reform movement begun by Catholic monk Martin Luther who began to question the practices of the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The song "Last Christmas" was originally released in 1984 by this British pop duo.
What is Wham!?
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Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility.
What is Versailles?
Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Who is the Mughal Empire?
Stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
Economic practice by which government sought to ensure that exports exceeded imports and to accumulate wealth in the form of mostly gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
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Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
Artist Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" recently sold for $6.24 million. The piece features this item duct tapped to a blank wall.
What is a banana?
Religion founded in northern India that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam.
What is Sikhism?
The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as elite military units.
What is Devshirme?
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A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
What is a caravel?
Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples that was practiced by Europeans in the Indian Ocean.
What is trading post empire?
A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power.
What is Absolute Monarchy?
Kobe Bryant was drafted with the 13th pick of the 1996 NBA Draft by this basketball team before being traded to the Lakers.
Who are the Charlotte Hornets?
A Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, thus at the top of the social hierarchy.
What is peninsulare?
Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644.
Who are the Manchus?
Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on the land.
What is Encomienda system?
Descendants of Spanish-born but born in Latin America who resented their inferior social, political, economic status.
Who are creoles?
Mr. Lin has myopia, which means he suffers from this.
What is nearsightedness?
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