Pretty Easy
This caliphate ruled much of the Islamic world from Baghdad during the Golden Age.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
Mughal ruler known for religious tolerance and cultural blending.
Who was Akbar?
A system of racial segregation enforced in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
Anti-foreign rebellion in China around 1900.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Post WWII system that created global financial institutions.
What is the Bretton Woods System?
The last powerful Ottoman Sultan who tried to modernize but ruled autocratically.
Who was Abd al-Hamid II?
A formal agreement between nations for mutual benefit or protection.
What is an alliance?
Skilled craft worker who makes goods by hand.
What is an artisan?
Eastern Roman Empire centered in Constantinople.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Samurai code of honor in Japan.
What is bushido?
To formally give up a throne or power.
What is abdicate?
The revolution in the 1700s that created the United States.
What is the American Revolution?
Rapidly industrializing economies like South Korea and Taiwan.
What are Asian Tigers?
A group of people trained for a specific political purpose.
What is cadre?
Mao's campaign to rapidly industrialize China.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This movement sought to end slavery, especially in the U.S. and Britain.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Muslim-ruled Spain during the Middle Ages.
What is Al-Andalus?
A government ruled by one person with absolute power.
What is an autocracy?
Ottoman system of recuiting Christian boys for service.
What is devshirme?
Medieval European system based on land and loyalty.
What is feudalism?
Indigenous peoples native to a region, ofen used in Australia.
What is Aboriginal?
Massive temple complex in Cambodia and symbol of khmer civilization.
What is Angkor Wat?
Devotional Hindu movement emphazing personal connection to gods.
What is the Bhakti movement?
Political ideopogy emphasizing dictatorship and nationalism.
What is fascism?
Trading company that dominated Asian trade.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
The global spread of people of African descent due to slavery and migration.
What is the African diaspora?
The current geological era shaped heavily by human activity.
What is Anthroocene era?
Middle class in industrial societies.
What is bourgeois?
Scientist punished for supporting helicocentrism.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Policy of openness in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev.
What is glasnost?