UNIT 1
A fast-ripening, drought resistant strain of rice that allowed agricultural expansion in Asia just before the 11th century.
Champa Rice
A vast commercial trade network across Eurasia saw the first use of magnetic compasses and currency.
The Silk Road
The new technology allowed states to consolidate their power and expand 1450-1750.
Gunpowder
Identify one advancement in maritime technology that allowed for global exploration
Astronomical chart
Compass
Lateen sail
New boats
Understanding of waves and gravity
A movement in the 17th and 18th centuries focused on secular thought and reshaped people's understanding of issues such as liberty, equality, and individual rights.
The Enlightenment
The term used for when one country asserts political or social power over another one for economic gain
Imperialism
Internal Problems that led to the Russian revolution
Bloody Sunday, most peasants were landless due to the recent abolition of serfdom and having no power with the Russian government,
The Conference that had Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet in 1945 to aid in reconstructing Europe after WWII
The Yalta Conference
A trade route from the 12th to 15th centuries that connected ports from East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, it grew due to maritime technology.
The Indian Ocean Trade
In the 14th century Mansa Musa took a trip to this city which is the holiest city in Islam
Mecca
European political philosophy (religiously) created by King Louis XIV was that kings were the rulers of the state and church, and no one had the authority to question his power.
Divine Right of Kings
Disease brought by conquistadores to the Americas that wiped out significant populations of natives
Small Pox
A new means of transportation allowed faster and quicker travel. This development created large steel, coal, and iron industries.
Railroad
Name two transportation advancements that happened during the Industrial Revolution
Railroads and Steamships
The American response to the Great Depression.
FDR's New Deal One and Two
This social program caused the greatest famine in modern Chinese history
The Great Leap Forward
A series of European military campaigns in the Middle East to spread Christianity from 1095 to the 1200s helped open up Europe to trade.
The Crusades
Name one export from East Africa in the Indian Ocean Trade
Gold, Ivory, Animal Skins/ turtle shells, Slaves
This group of people were used to collect taxes in the Mughal Empire
Zamindars
Local resistance to state power in the Americas.
Pueblo Revolt, Metacom's War, and Maroon Societies in the Caribbean and Brazil
The one revolution based on enlightenment that was led by a bottom-up movement.
The Haitian Revolution
The name of the loss of potato crops in Ireland that forced 3 million Irish to migrate in 4 years
The Great Famine/The Irish Potato Famine
Changes in territorial Holdings after World War I
Transfer a former German colonies to Great Britain and France under the system of the League of Nations mandates. The breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of Turkey.
The name of the social program that would open up government transparency in the USSR and give more freedom to the press
glasnost
An attitude of respect for parents and ancestors in societies influenced by Confucian thought.
filial piety
For 700 years, this trade route brought significant wealth to West Africa as well as spread Islam through Africa. Known for Gold or Salt
The trans-Saharan Trade
Religious movement led to the rise of Protestantism and the breaking away of the Catholic Church.
Protestant Reformation
Economy driven by gold and silver
Mercantilism
After the Industrial Revolution, these calls for changes were warranted due to the conditions of factories. The new economic system called for a violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie.
Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto or communism
The terms proletariat (working class) and bourgeoisie (the capitalist class) were coined by this German philosopher
Karl Marx
Laws in Germany that targeted Jews and forced them into ghettos and barred them from specific jobs.
Nuremberg Laws
Give an example of negotiated independence and a violent struggle for independence.
India, Israel and Vietnam or Algeria
Name one of the Branches of Buddhism and where it originated.
Theravada, Mahayana, ot Tibetan
The plague between 1347 and 1351 that wipeout up to 25 million Europeans
The Black Death/Bubonic plague
How did the Mexico or Aztecs rule?
Tribute lists, Human Sacrifice
The type of trade between North America, Africa, and Europe that traded slaves, firearms, and other resources between the three continents.
Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangle trade
A decline in Middle Eastern and Asian share in global Manufacturing
Shipbuilding in India and SE Asia or Iron Works in India, Textile production in India
The war that broke out between China and Britain that forced the Chinese to trade with Britain. This war was over a drug crisis in China that was causing widespread addiction and death.
Opium War
The turning point of WWII against Germany.
battle of Stalingrad
Nicknamed "Star Wars" this was the plan of Ronald Reagan to prevent nuclear missiles from hitting the United States
The Strategic Defense Initiative
Name of region known as : Everything that Islam touches
Dar-Al Islam
The name of two states that resisted Mongol invasion.
Japan or Mamluks of Egypt
A Chinese political ideology that justified the rule of the emperor or king. The belief that god had given the emperor the right to rule.
Mandate of Heaven
The revolt against Catherine the Great of Russia.
The Cossack Revolt or Pugachev's Rebellion
A feminist at this time and Feminist Conferences. That challenged political and gender hierarchies
Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges
Seneca Falls, Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The conference among European powers that divided up Africa for spheres of influence in 1884. Famous for creating the "Scramble for Africa"
Berlin Conference
Give an example of a city that was a fire bomb during World War II that was considered a mass atrocity.
Hamburg, Dresden, or Tokyo
Political changes that led to territorial, demographic, and nationalist changes.
Israel and the Partition of India / Pakistan
a social structure that divides a population into a hierarchy of classes based on birth and the ideal of Hinduism. Also name the highest class.
Caste System and Brahmins
The term is used for settlements of people away from their homeland. When these people move, they bring their cultural practices with them. Give one example.
Diaspora. Persians and Arabs in East Africa, Chinese Merchants in SE Asia
These two movements that occurred at the end of the 17th century that focused on humanism would become the inspiration for The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The Scientific Revolution
Give an example of increased peasant and Artisan labor.
Silk production in China, cotton production in India or wool and linen production in Western Europe.
A transnational company that developed at this time.
Hong Kong and Shanghai banking company, Unilever
Someone or a movement that led to direct resistance to state power or a rebellion at this time.
Tupac Amura II in Peru 1857 or Sepoy rebellion in India.
A genocide that happened near the end of World War 1 inside the Ottoman Empire
Armenian Genocide
Movements that used violence against state power.
Al-Qaeda or Shining Path