1200-1450
This commodity was first introduced to China as tribute and was diffused by the Mongols and became an important food source and a staple in Persia
What is Champa rice?
This empire led the way in maritime exploration and study with explorers including Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama
What is Portugal?
The Bourgeoisie were the factory owners, small business owners, etc. while the working class was known as this
What is the Proletariat?
What is Belgium?
Winston Churchill coined this term to describe the division between free and repressed societies after World War II
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Aztecs adapted to their capital being on an island in Lake Texcoco by constructing these floating islands of agriculture
What are the chinampas?
The Qing forced Chinese peasant to grow mulberry plants to increase the demands for this luxury good
What is silk?
These reforms in the Ottoman Empire included things like secularizing education, ending government corruption and training in European sciences & mathematics
What are the Tanzimat Reforms?
This included mass demonstrations mostly by students & intellectuals who wanted China to become a liberal democracy in 1919
What was the May 4th Movement?
This is what M.A.D. stood for as it pertained to the nuclear arsenals of the Soviet Union and the USA
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
The city of Malacca was a powerful trade port for this empire that flourished in Southeast Asia in this historical period
What is Srivijaya?
The Taj Mahal showed a syncretism of Islamic architecture like round domes with Indian architecture like marble under the rule of this empire
Who were the Mughals?
This was heavily used as a labor source when slavery was outlawed, and workers were needed to be transported from one region of the world to another
What is Indentured Servitude?
This was the name of the 1942 civil disobedience movement to end British control of India led by Gandhi where he encouraged protest without violence
What is the Quit India Movement?
This policy was that the U.S. would provide political, military & economic assistance to democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This religious movement was meant to make Hinduism more personal and included elements of Sufi Islam like poetry, chanting, food sacrifices and dancing
What is the Bhakti Movement?
These were the autocratic landlords of Russia who the tsars allowed to continue serfdom in order to keep their favor
Who were the Boyars?
This Prussian leader used nationalistic feeling to bring about three wars that would help lead to German Unification under his guidance
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
The Turks launched a genocide against these people in 1915 after using them as a scapegoat for the Turk's defeat at the hands of the Russians
Who were the Armenians?
This leader early on committed to social reform and economic uplift to became Ghana’s first prime minister, but eventually turned more into a dictator
Who was Kwame Nkrumah?
In Medieval Europe, the Western Roman Catholic Church was the most stabilizing & unifying force using this language which became a unifying language
What is Latin?
The Japanese isolated themselves from the Europeans with the Act of Seclusion in 1636 except for the Dutch who were allowed to trade at this Japanese island
What is Deshima?
He led the last great Indian revolt against the Spanish which started in Peru and then spread into Bolivia and Argentina
Who was Túpac Amaru II?
This event happened in this city and became known as a massacre with the mass killing and ravaging of the Chinese by the Japanese Imperial army in 1937
What is Nanking (Nanjing)?
This was the name for Mao's rapid but catastrophic plan to shift China from an agriculturally based economy to a more industrialized nation
What is the Great Leap Forward?