People
Unified Mongol Tribes and founded the Mongol Empire
Who is Genghis Khan?
Expanded and consolidated the Mughal Empire in India, known for religious tolerance.
Who is Akbar the Great?
Westernized and expanded the Russian Empire into a major European power.
Who is Peter the Great (1682-1725)?
This Islamic empire in West Africa thrived through trans-Saharan trade and was home to cities like Timbuktu.
What is the Mali Empire?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Moroccan explorer whose travels across the Islamic world provided crucial geographical and cultural knowledge. (He was Muslim)
Who was Ibn Battuta?
Unified Japan and founded the Tokugawa Shogunate, ushering in over 250 years of relative peace.
Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu (1600)?
Led the American Revolution and became the first U.S. President.
Who is George Washington?
This Confucian Exam system continued to dominate Chinese bureaucracy during the Song Dynasty.
What is the civil service examination system?
This labor system in Spanish colonies exploited Indigenous people in mining and agriculture.
What is the encomienda system?
Turco-Mongol conqueror who built a vast empire in Cental Asia and the Middle East.
Who is Tamerlane (Timur) 1370?
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Military genius and emperor who reshaped Europe through conquest and reform.
Who is Napolean Bonaparte? (1799-1815)
This major Afro-Eurasia trade route linked China to Europe, facilitating the spread of luxury goods and ideas.
What is the Silk Road?
This term refers to the transfer of crops, animals, and disease between the Old and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Invented the movable type printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Published "Principia Mathematica," forming the basis of classical mechanics.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Liberated much of South America from Spanish rule.
Who is Simon Bolivar? (1810-1830)
This empire built the Taj Mahal and was known for its policy of religious tolerance under Akbar.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This early modern economic system was based on state control of trade and accumilation of bullion and gold.
What is mercantilism?
Sparked the Protestant Reformation, changing the religious and political map of Europe.
Who is Martin Luther?
The "Sun King" of France, exemplified absolute monarchy in Europe.
Who is Louis XIV?
Co authored "The Communist Manifesto", shaping 19th-20th political thought.
Who is Karl Marx?
This elite Ottoman infantry unit was composed of enlaved Christian boys through the devshirme system.
What are Janissaries?
This syncretic religion in Haiti blends West African beliefs with Catholicism.
What is Vodou? Voodoo