Peoples of this region began to interact with peoples of the Americas and Australasia.
What is Afroeurasia?
100
This involves multiple infectious diseases and ferocious pandemics that began when they were introduced to American Indian populations by European invaders.
What is "The Great Dying"?
100
These weapons improved European outcomes in warfare.
What are gunpowder weapons/firearms?
100
Islam settled into Africa. This religion settled into the Americas.
What is Christianity?
200
Human societies and these which connected them became much more complex.
What are the "networks"?
200
The second major development was Columbian Exchange of plants, animals, and these between Afroeurasia and the Americas.
What are microorganisms?
200
Global trade was based on this commodity.
What is silver?
200
In tropical parts of Africa, the slave trade caused this gender to outnumber the other.
What are females?
200
This invention stimulated literacy in Europe.
What is the printing press?
300
There was a major population decrease in these.
What are the Americas?
300
This was one of the diseases spread by Europeans over the Americas. It is still a popular illness today, and is known by its shortened term.
What is influenza?
300
This was the main type of ship used in Spanish trading.
What is a galleon?
300
This commodity transformed the diets of Europeans.
What is sugar?
300
This monk started the protestant reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
In the 1400, they had a population of about 140 million. In 1800, they had about 330 million and 180 million.
What are China and India?
400
It is believed that the "Great Dying" was a major factor in the disintegrating of these two empires.
What are the Aztec and Inca Empires?
400
This is the only region that the Great Global Convergence did not affect.
What is Antarctica?
400
In addition to weapons, this factor was critical to winning wars.
What is financing?
400
Ideas flowing from this movement challenged accepted religious doctrine and older ways of thinking.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
500
At the end of Big Era Six, about two percent of humans lived in cities. 95 percent were farmers. The other three percent were these.
What are foragers/pastoral nomads?
500
Because Europeans did not want to do the difficult, back-breaking work of farming and be vulnerable to tropical diseases, they enslaved people of this nation.
What is Africa?
500
This continent was the center of the global economy at the beginning of Big Era Six.
What is Asia?
500
Technology and cultural innovations spread to Europe from these two continents.
What are Africa and Asia?
500
This was the great debate over the merits of science and faith as the proper measures of reality.