UNIT 1
The idea that men hold the higher social standing in society
Patriarchy
A vast commercial trade networks across Eurasia that saw the first use of magnetic compasses and currency.
The Silk Road
Large, multi-ethnic states in Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories
Gunpowder Empires
These three advancements in maritime technology allowed for significant global interconnectedness from the 14th century onward.
Better Maps/Charts, Compass, Lateen sail, Rudders, Understanding of tides and gravity, astrolabe
These three factors led to modern industrialization first developing in Britain.
Coal deposits, geographic separation, colonial empire.
A fast-ripening, drought resistant strain of rice that allowed for agricultural expansion in SE and East Asia just before the 11th century.
Champa Rice
The epidemic which between 1347 and 1351, led to the deaths of up to 25 million Europeans
The Black Death/Bubonic plague/Black Plague
European political philosophy, prominently promoted by King Louis XVI that argued kings were the ruler of the state and church by holy mandate.
Divine Right of Kings
The military conquests of this Mughal emperor put enormous strain on the state, and resulted in increasing tensions between different religious communities.
Aurangzeb
The 19th century was marked by a number of rebellions and revolts against older systems of power, many of which were motivated by these three enlightenment-era ideologies.
Liberalism, Nationalism, Abolitionism, Popular Sovereignty, Socialism
A trade route in the 12th to 15th centuries that connected ports from East Africa, SW Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. Grew due to maritime technology.
The Indian Ocean Trade
A prominent export from East Africa as part of the Indian Ocean Trade
Gold, Ivory, Animal Skins, Quartz
A main reason for conflict between the Ottoman and Safavid empires.
Sunni Shi'a Split
An economic system motivated by the desire for a positive balance of payments, seen in national stocks of gold and silver
Mercantilism
These two terms for the revolt against colonial rule, which resulted in the British government taking control of South Asia from the EIC in 1858, represent the colonizer's and colonizer's perspectives respectively.
Colonizer's POV: Sepoy Mutiny, 1857 Rebellion
Indian POV: War of Independence
A series of European military campaigns in SW Asia to seize control of the Holy Lands from 1095 to the 1200s
The Crusades
For 700 years, this trade route brought significant wealth and Islam to West Africa. Known for exports of Gold and Salt
The trans-Saharan Trade
A religious movement which led to the rise of Northern European states, weakened feudalism and splintered the Catholic Church.
Protestant Reformation
The type of mutually-dependent trade between North America, Africa, and Europe that traded slaves, firearms, and other resources between the three regions.
Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangle trade
The Region in Northeast Asia that the ruling ethnic group of the Qing dynasty originated from and the name of the group.
Manchuria & Manchus
The term used to describe religious practices that reflect a mixing of different belief systems.
Syncretism
The name of Chingis Khan prior to his seizing control of the Mongol people.
Temujin
The shogunate which unified Japan after a period of civil war and fragmentation, that also imposed strict isolationist policies.
The Tokagawa Shogunate
Two early European maritime empires and their respective spheres of influence, as established by the Treaty of Tordesillas
Spain: The New World/Western Hemisphere + Philippines
Portugal: Asia/Africa/Old World/Eastern Hemisphere + Brazil
1st: Coal, Steam Engine, Textiles
2nd: Petroleum, Internal Combustion Engine, Steel
The endonymous term for the Muslim regions of the world.
Dar-Al Islam
The term used for settlements of people away from their homeland. When these people move they bring their cultural practices with them.
Diaspora
A tax/system on Christians in the Ottoman Empire which conscripted boys from a young age, for military training as Janissaries.
Devshirme
The order of domination of the Indian-Ocean Trade Routes. (Name at least three states in the order of domination.)
Muslims, Portuguese, Dutch, English
The economic system advocated for by Adam Smith in "Inquiry Into the Wealth of Nations" and the economic system people falsely credit to the text.
Free trade & Laissez Faire economics
A social structure that divides a population into a hierarchy of classes based on birth and the Hindu concepts of Dharma and Karma.
Caste System
The 14th century Saharan leader whose Hajj famously led to major inflation due to the massive quantity of gold he gave/spent on his journey, and the state he ruled.
Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali
A group of rural Mughal officials in charge of collecting taxes and raising military forces, who later became hereditary landlords under the British EIC
Zamindars
This Southern African leader challenged Portuguese expansion and slave raiding, although she occasionally participated in the trade herself to access weapons.
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo
Four major conflicts which affected Qing China during the 19th century, two conflicts between the Chinese State and European Imperial powers, and two anti-Manchu revolts by the Han majority.
Imperialist Conflicts: Opium wars & 1st Sino-Japanese War
Anti-Manchu Revolts: Taiping Rebellion & Boxer Rebellion