Interactions with the Environment
Malaria, the Black Death, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, cholera, smallpox, etc.
What are diseases?
What is the Angolan Civil War?
The killing of over six million Jews by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
What is the non-alignment movement?
The interdependence and connectedness of world economies. The world is economically connected.
What is golbalization?
Modern revolution in agriculture, improving farming techniques, crops that resist disease, and chemically and genetically engineered crops
What is the Green Revolution
An Islamic empire established in India following the defeat of the Delhi Sultanate in 1526. The rulers were an Islamic minority ruling over a Hinu majority.
What is the Mughal Empire?
A German philosopher who published the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engles. Developed a socialist theory in response to the Industrial Revolution.
Who is Karl Marx?
A system of legally protected religious communities of non-Muslims, such as Jews, Greeks, and Armenians, in the Ottoman Empire.
What is the millet system?
Mao Zedong saw this as an opportunity for China to get involved in the industrial production of other nations, leading to land being collectivized, the abolishment of private ownership, and communal farming. Deemed a failure and led to 20 million Chinese dying of malnutrition and starvation.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Steam engines, combustion engines, fossil fuels used to power these, and railroads
What are the technological changes during the Industrial Revolution?
They took control from the Umayyad in 750 CE and continued to grow due to independent military forces, not military conquests.
What is the Abbasid caliphate?
The first women's rights convention in the US in 1848 and marks the beginning of the women's suffrage movement in the US.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A trade route that connected the Mediterranean basin to sub-Saharan Africa. The camel helped transport and Islam spread along the route.
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade route?
Areas of economic influence or control. Several established in China in the 19th century by Western powers like Germany and France.
What are spheres of influence?
An exchange of plant, food, animals, resources, and diseases between the New and Old Worlds
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Existed in present day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador from 300-900 CE. Cities became abandoned starting in 800 CE possibly due to civil war, invasions, or natural disasters.
What is the Mayan civilization?
Christian missionaries followed to the New World to spread religion. Natives were resistant, but some did mix their beliefs with Christianity.
What is Christianity in the Americas?
A religion based on the teachings of Jesus and his disciples that worshipped one God and spread throughout the world.
What is Christianity?
The triangular trade that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas, in which the majority of slaves were exported from West and Central Africa and sent to the Americas to work in plantations or mines.
What is the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
A civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, with some of the world's first cities, such as Ur and Babylon.
What is Mesopotamia?
Problems included internal opposition, power struggles, division of the empire, and invasions from outsiders.
What is the fall of the Roman Empire?
It was divided into three classes: clergy, warrior (knights), and worker; no social mobility and serfs tied to the land.
What is European feudal society?
A city in central Mexico, at its height between 400-600 CE, that had colossal pyramids of the sun and moon.
What is Teotihuacan?
Self-sufficient communities, in which serf produced most of the necessary goods and the lord provided government and justice.
What is manorialism (or manorial system)?