Unit 1
System of trade routes between Asia and Europe. Included not just goods but culture and diseases too.
The Silk Road
Astrolabe
What began with Martin Luther criticizing the Catholic Church for selling indulgences?
The Reformation
What movement included events like the Reign of Terror and the Tennis Court Oath?
French Revolution
Transition to things being made mostly in factories and an increase in industry and inventions.
The Industrial Revolution
The social structure in India that determined what someone's job was and who they could marry.
Caste System
The reason 90% of indigenous populations in the Americas declined after contact with the Europeans during the Age of Exploration/Colonization.
Disease (smallpox)
Monarch has the right to govern given to them by god.
Divine Right
Which Enlightenment thinker inspired Thomas Jefferson to include "unalienable rights" in the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
Meeting when European countries divided and claimed different areas in Africa.
The Berlin Conference
The movement and spread of ideas, language, and traditions (culture) from one area of the world to another
Cultural Diffusion
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
This person wrote the 95 Theses criticizing the Catholic Church and posted them on a cathedral door on October 31 1517.
Martin Luther
This part of the French Revolution included frequent beheadings using the guillotine.
The Reign of Terror
Labor groups formed by workers to bargain for better contracts and working conditions.
Unions
This philosophy created in Ancient China emphasized filial piety and established a civil service exam to work for the government.
Confucianism
Which European nation is most known for setting up Catholic missions in the Americas during colonization to convert the natives to Christianity?
Spain
Which Enlightenment philosophe said there is a social contract where the people agree to be governed and the government agrees to protect the people's rights.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
The gradual shift from hunting-gathering to farming is called what?
The Neolithic Revolution
Economic system in place during the Age of Exploration/Colonization? (fixed amount of wealth, competed for colonies and resources)
What is mercantilism?
English document that protected citizens against unlimited government by limiting the king's power in 1215 CE.
Magna Carta
What philosophical movement inspired revolutions in America, France, and Latin America because it focused on natural rights and democracy?
The Enlightenment
Theory that was used to justify imperialism by applying Charles Darwin's laws of natural selection and "survival of the fittest" to people and societies.
Social Darwinism