Middle Ages
This group of armoured warriors served their lords in feudal Japan and Europe.
What are samurai or knights?
This invention by James Watt changed how machines were powered.
What is the steam engine?
The triangular trade connected Europe, Africa, and this region.
What is the Americas?
These are the years when the Second Opium War was fought.
What is 1856-1858?
Rosa Parks helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to do this.
What is give up her seat?
This religious institution held great political and cultural power in medieval Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
Japan’s rapid industrialisation during the Meiji Era was called this.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Many enslaved Africans were captured by these groups before being sold.
Who are African middlemen or local rulers?
After the Opium Wars, Westerners in China were no longer subject to Chinese laws and could only be tried by their own country's courts. This legal privilege was known by this term.
What is extraterritoriality?
This system of racial segregation existed in South Africa for much of the 20th century.
What is apartheid?
This pandemic killed about one-third of Europe’s population in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death or bubonic plague?
The Industrial Revolution increased demand for these raw materials.
What are coal, iron, and cotton?
Enslaved people were forced to work on these types of large-scale farms.
What are plantations?
China lost the First Opium War and was forced to sign this unequal treaty.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
This U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This invention helped spread knowledge more widely by the end of the Middle Ages.
What is the printing press?
These movements aimed to improve working conditions and workers’ rights.
What are labour unions?
Europeans traded these goods in Africa in exchange for enslaved people.
What are guns, textiles, or alcohol?
One consequence of the Opium Wars was the loss of this major city to British control.
What is Hong Kong?
This 1964 law banned segregation in public places in the U.S.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This system structured medieval society with kings, nobles, knights, and peasants.
What is feudalism or feudal system?
The move from hand tools to machines began in this industry.
What is the textile industry?
This is the year slavery was officially abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
What is 1865?
This Chinese dynasty was in power during the Opium Wars and faced internal rebellions and external pressure from Western powers.
What is the Qing dynasty?
U.S. laws once enforced racial segregation in the South. They were called this.
What are Jim Crow laws?