Guns,
Germs, Steel
Germs, Steel
That geography was the most important factor for determining which societies had the best access to farming and animal domestication.
What is the theory of Guns, Germs, and Steel?
The Era before the Industrial Revolution where humans relied upon farming, and building what they needed from the resources near their local geography.
What is the Biological Old Regime?
This was the first fully automatic weapon used on the battlefield. It made possible for European's imperialist efforts in Africa.
What is the Maxim Gun?
Food, Water, Shelter.
What are the necessities for life?
The years 1789-1795.
When was the French Revolution?
This disease came from Europeans and they brought it to North and South America and it accounted for killing off an estimated 95% of the 20 million Indigenous Native population.
What is the smallpox?
Only by using water power, or animal power, or human labor.
How was energy created before the Industrial Revolution?
A disease transmitted by mosquitoes that can be deadly.
What is malaria?
In many ways it is different and in many ways it is still the same.
What is change and continuity?
This French Monarch was executed in 1793.
Who was Louis XVI?
Their geography gave them an advantage to be most successful because of their access to the best plants and animals, and that allowed time for specialization into diverse fields such as writing and communication and development of tools.
Why were Europeans successful in World History?
This inventor came up with the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
This leader killed thousands of Congolese while harvesting natural resources of out the Congo as its imperialist colonizer.
Who was King Leopold II?
This country is still in control of 14 imperial territories.
Who is Great Britain?
Napoleon sold this territory to the United States because the island of Haiti was no longer a French controlled piggy bank.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
He wrote the book Guns, Germs, Steel.
Who is Jared Diamond?
A major labor saving device that removed cotton seeds from cotton faster than by hand.
What is the cotton gin?
A meeting where European leaders carved up Africa for their own interests.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884?
This country is still in control of 5 imperialist territories.
Who is the United States?
The era known in French History for the guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
A conquistador who read accounts of Hernan Cortes' conquest of the Aztecs, and thanks to the development of writing, could learn from Cortes, and use that information to make intelligent decisions to defeat the Inca when he traveled there in 1532.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
A major labor saving device for English textile producers in their factories because it spun multiple threads at the same time.
What is the spinning jenny?
Taking over another country through influence or by force.
What is imperialism?
A series of broad patterns.
What is history?
Sugar was the main resource that slaves produced here.
What is Haiti?