Unit 1
What is the major religious system in India?
Hinduism
System of government where the monarch has total control of the government.
Absolutism
Astrolabe
Which Enlightenment thinker inspired Thomas Jefferson to include "unalienable rights" in the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
Transition to things being made mostly in factories and an increase in industry and inventions.
The Industrial Revolution
System of trade routes between Asia and Europe. Included not just goods but culture and diseases too.
The Silk Road
Monarch has the right to govern given to them by god.
Divine Right
The reason 90% of indigenous populations in the Americas declined after contact with the Europeans during the Age of Exploration/Colonization.
Disease (smallpox)
What movement included events like the Reign of Terror and the Tennis Court Oath?
French Revolution
Meeting when European countries divided and claimed different areas in Africa.
The Berlin Conference
The gradual shift from hunting-gathering to farming is called what?
The Neolithic Revolution
This person wrote the 95 Theses criticizing the Catholic Church and posted them on a cathedral door on October 31 1517.
Martin Luther
This system included taking enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas, sending raw materials from the Americas to Europe, and trading manufactured goods from Europe to the Americas and Africa.
The Triangle Trade
What movement inspired revolutions in America, France, and Latin America because it focused on natural rights and democracy?
The Enlightenment
This man-made water feature in Egypt connected the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea and made it faster for European ships to reach the Indian Ocean rather than sailing around Africa.
Suez Canal
Which two religions were at the root of the conflict during the Crusades?
Christianity and Islam
What began with Martin Luther criticizing the Catholic Church for selling indulgences?
The Reformation
Economic system in place during the Age of Exploration/Colonization? (fixed amount of wealth, competed for colonies and resources)
What is mercantilism?
This movement is considered the first successful slave rebellion in the Americas.
Haitian Revolution
Author of the Communist Manifesto. Said capitalism would inevitably end with a proletariat revolution.
Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels)
The movement and spread of ideas, language, and traditions (culture) from one area of the world to another
Cultural Diffusion
English document that protected citizens against unlimited government by limiting the king's power in 1215 CE.
Magna Carta
The labor system instituted by the Spanish when they colonized Latin America that established land grants to Spanish settlers and effectively enslaved natives on that land.
Encomienda System
This was the name of the shout or "cry" that began the Mexican Independence movement.
Grito de Dolores
Now discredited theory that was used to justify imperialism by applying Charles Darwin's laws of natural selection to people and societies.
Social Darwinism