Before 1200
This religion argues that a stable social order is based on deference to those in authority just as a stable family life is based on obedience to parents.
What is Confucianism?
The adoption of this fast-ripening strain of rice from Vietnam nearly doubled the population of China during the Tang and Song dynasties.
What is champa rice?
The global silver trade in Potosi was controlled by this European country.
Who is Spain?
This was the first European colony in Latin America to declare its independence
What is Haiti?
This country switched sides after World War I began
Who is Italy?
This Chinese philosopher stated the Dao invites people to find happiness by living in nature without the artificial desires generated by civilization.
Who is Laozi?
Islam spread to the city of Timbuktu in the kingdom of Mali along which trade routes across the Sahara?
What are the sand roads?
The introduction of corn and potatoes into the Afro-Eurasian diet was an example of which development during the period 1450-1750?
What is the Columbian exchange?
In the nineteenth century, nationalism in Europe fueled a competitive drive for colonies in these two world regions?
What is Asia and Africa?
This event marked the official beginning of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash?
Confucius's ideas were compiled by his followers in the generations after his death. These texts are collectively referred to as...
What are "The Analects"?
The capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire brought this empire to an end.
What is the Byzantine empire?
The status of enslaved peoples with this characteristic distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history.
What is race?
Industrialization was associated with violent social revolution only in this country?
What is Russia?
Following World War I, resentment grew in Germany because of this.
What are the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
These two world religions started out as an effort to reform the religions from which they had come but soon emerged as separate religions.
What are Buddhism and Christianity?
The spread of the Black Death from China to Europe in the fourteenth century occurred during an era of increased contact facilitated by these rulers?
Who are the Mongols?
This leader of Mughal India formulated a state religion that combined elements of Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism.
Who is Akbar?
This was a European colonial view that shaped the development of African identity in the nineteenth century.
What is the idea that Africa was divided into tribes?
Who is Japan?
These two world religions offered hope for final release from the cycle of rebirth.
What are Buddhism and Hinduism?
In Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, this system emerged that emphasized the reciprocal ties between a king and his vassals and between a lord and his serfs.
The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Mexica and Inca lands was based on which two economic activities?
This byproduct of birds was an agricultural breakthrough that helped to sustain the Industrial Revolution
What is guano?
An extreme form of nationalism that developed in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s glorified this over the individual
What is the state?