1200-1450
This Chinese dynasty used the civil service exam and promoted Neo-Confucianism.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This navigational instrument helped sailors determine latitude.
What is the astrolabe?
This revolutionary invention powered factories and locomotives.
What is the steam engine?
This ideology led to class struggle and inspired revolutions in Russia and China.
What is communism?
This system of forced labor continued in Russia until 1861.
What is serfdom?
This intellectual movement inspired reform and revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What is the Enlightenment?
A maritime empire in Southeast Asia that controlled trade through the Strait of Malacca.
What is the Srivijaya Empire?
A powerful Islamic empire centered in Persia.
What is the Safavid Empire?
A South American revolutionary who fought for independence from Spain; has a country named after him.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
A genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
This global trade network remained vital from 1200 to 1750.
What is the Indian Ocean trade?
This industrial power rose in East Asia by the early 20th century.
What is Japan?
A Muslim empire that ruled parts of northern India and promoted Persian culture.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The VOC is an example of this.
What is a Limited Liability Corporation?
Machine guns led to this unpleasant innovation in warfare.
What is trench warfare?
This transregional religion continued to spread through trade and conquest.
What is Islam?
This social movement demanded equal rights and voting rights for women.
What is suffrage or feminism?
This spiritual movement in South Asia emphasized love and devotion to a personal god.
What is the Bhakti movement?
He caused a major split in Western Christianity.
Who is Martin Luther?
A movement in China resisting British influence and foreign rule.
What is the Taiping or Boxer Rebellion?
The leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The never set on this European empire from the 1700's until the mid-20th century.
What is the British Empire?
This Cold War conflict divided the Korean Peninsula.
What is the Korean War?
These fortified inns provided rest stops along the Silk Roads.
What are caravanserai?
This empire in India blended Islamic and Hindu traditions.
What is the Mughal Empire?
A series of revolts by Indian soldiers against British rule.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This Song Dynasty invention revolutionized commerce and is still used today (though might be fading into obscurity)...
What is paper money?
This organization was formed after WWII to promote global peace.
What is the United Nations?
The literal meaning of Dar-al-Islam.
What is the House of Islam?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This African queen resisted British imperialism in West Africa.
Who is Yaa Asantewaa?
Name for the US-funded rebel groups in the Soviet-Afghan War.
Who are the mujahideen?
This canal has been key to shipping goods since at least 1869 (not including its many precursors).
What is the Suez Canal?
This invention revolutionized communication in the 19th century.
What is the telegraph?