Transoceanic Connections
Sailed from Spain and landed in the Bahamas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
A period of intellectual and cultural movement that took place in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries
The Enlightenment
A sudden, radical, or complete change
Revolution
The fuel type that made the Industrial Revolution possible
Fossil Fuels
The cause of the Great Famine in Ireland
British imperialism in Ireland, Potato Blight
Europeans brought this animal to the New World.
Horses
The separation of Church and State
Secularism
The event that begins the French Revolution
The Storming of the Bastille
The major reason the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britian
Coal reserves
The policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
Imperialism
The movement of people, disease, animals and plants, between the Eastern and Western hemisphere.
The Columbian Exchange
The belief that the Sun is at the center of the solar system
Heliocentrism
The common bonds that hold people together within a nation, creating a new type of community, where individuals’ loyalty should be focused on the nation
Nationalism
The uneven distribution of fossil fuel resources led this
Wealth Disparities
Ideological
The primary cause of death for Native Americans due to the Columbian Exchange.
Disease
Led the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
Responsible for unifying Germany
Otto von Bismark
Made the mass production of good possible
Steam Engine
Chinese resistance to imperialism
The Boxer Rebellion
The route that brought captured Africans to the west indies and later to North and South America.
The Middle Passage
Key idea of The Enlightenment, emphasized logical thinking and scientific inquiry
Reasoning and Rationality
The Haitian Revolution (Haiti)
New type of housing, that allowed for multiple families to live in one building
Tenements
Replaced the Tokugawa Shogunate, modernizing Japan
The Meiji Restoration