Land-Based Empires
What are the three "gunpowder empires"?
Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal Empires
Name one crop, one animal, and one disease that was spread from the old to the new world.
Crops: tobacco, wheat, rice, sugar
Animals: pigs, goats, cows
Diseases: typus, syphilis, measles, smallpox
The name of the law passed to allow for private property in Great Britain
The Enclosure Act
Name two European countries that were neutral during WWII?
Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, San Marino, Andorra
Name two new technologies in the 21st century that allowed for a higher production of agriculture.
GMO's, hybrid seeds
Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.
Ghenghis Khan
Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
Marco Polo
Thinker who supported a economic system based on private enterprise and free trade
Adam Smith
The group of nations that didn't side with either the US or the USSR during the Cold War.
The non-aligned movement
People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
West African kingdoms that built wealth and power through trans-Saharan trade of salt and gold; Islam spread through trade
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
A very large flat bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Junk
steep growth in industry and the production of steel, petroleum, electric power, and the machinery to produce other goods
Second industrial revolution
The name of the WWI plan for Germany to attack France through Belgium.
The Schlieffen Plan
Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
Desertification
Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam.
Golden Horde
Which of the following scientific concepts had the greatest role in providing a justification for imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Darwinism
A state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs
Protectorate
The name of the general who Japanese leader who perpetrated the attack on Pearl Harbor
Hideki Tojo
Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Asian Tigers
Which of the following best explains a similarity in the methods used by the Ottoman and Mughal Empires to consolidate and maintain control over their diverse populations in the period 1450–1750?
Both empires utilized systems that allowed a degree of religious and cultural autonomy in exchange for political loyalty and taxation.
Which of the following accurately describes the effect of the spread of Christianity among most Amerindian societies after 1500 C.E.?
They maintained local customs while adopting some Christian ones.
Why did Enlightenment ideals have limited practical impact on global social hierarchies during this period?
The continuation of coerced labor systems in colonial Latin America despite widespread adoption of Enlightenment-inspired constitutions.
He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Gabel Abdel Nasser
Alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit union organizing, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
Fair Trade