UNIT 1
A fast-ripening, drought resistant strain of rice that allowed agricultural expansion in Asia just before the 11th century.
Champa Rice
Vast commercial trade networks across Eurasia that saw the first use of magnetic compasses and currency.
The Silk Road
Large, multi-ethnic states in Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories
Gunpowder Empires
Emperor in the Mughal Empire in 1556 who expanded the empire through military and administrative achievements that was tolerant of all religions
Akbar the Great
A movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that focus on individualism, self-determination, and freedom
The Enlightenment
The term used for when one country asserts political or social power over another one for economic gain
Imperialism
Believed that the means of production should be controlled collectively and lead to equal society
Communism
The metaphorical line drawn between Eastern and Western Europe by Winston Churchill after WWII
The Iron Curtain
The general name for the leader of the Seljuk Turks who. began conquering parts of the Middle East in the 11th century
Sultan
The leader of the Mongolian Kingdom beginning 1206who began a conquest to take over parts of China and Persia
Genghis Khan
Tzar from 1547-1584 who sought to expand the Russian empire into Mongolian territory such as Kazan and Siberia
Ivan IV/ Ivan the Terrible
Dutch explorer who was tasked with finding a route across North America to Asia
Henry Hudson
Corporations that gain so much power that they are the sole company influencing a market
Monopoly
The conference among European powers that divided up Africa for spheres of influence in 1884. Famous for creating the "Scramble for Africa"
Berlin Conference
He was assassinated in 1914 and was the cause for Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The man who sent missiles to Cuba in 1962 in response to America sending missiles to Turkey
Nikita Khrushchev
Year 1000, seven states were formed from the Hausa ethnic group in what is now modern-day Nigeria
Hausa Kingdoms
Diaspora
Monk who challenged the authority of the Church through nailing his 95 theses to the wall of the church. Believed in sola fide faith (individual salvation through Christ)
Martin Luther
Disease brought by conquistadores to the Americas that wiped out significant populations of natives
Smallpox
A change in society that was marked by a rapid growth in technology and social change in the 18th century
Industrial Revolution
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
Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico that brought the US into WWI
Zimmermann Telegram
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
The Crusades
In the 14th century Mansa Musa took a trip to this city which is the holiest city in Islam
Mecca
King of France from 1643-1715 who developed the "divine right" argument for their rule and ruled as essentially a dictator
Louis XIV
Dynasty in China in the 15th century that limited Chinese trade for the dissolution of foreign influence
Ming Dynasty
A means of transportation that stretched from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean that allowed Russia to trade with East Asia. This development created large steel, coal, and iron industries in Russia
The trans-Siberian Railroad
Name two transportation advancements that happened during the Industrial Revolution
Railroads and Steamships
The agreement signed by European nations after WWI that blamed Germany for the war and forced them to. demilitarize and pay reparations
Treaty of Versailles
Nicknamed "Star Wars" this was the plan of Ronald Reagan to prevent nuclear missiles from hitting the United States
The Strategic Defense Initiative
The Indian Ocean Trade
The plague between 1347 and 1351 that wipeout up to 25 million Europeans
The Black Death/Bubonic plague
Beginning with Martin Luther's 95 theses, this religious movement led to the rise of Protestantism
Protestant Reformation
The type of trade between North America, Africa, and Europe that traded slaves, firearms, and other resources between the three
Triangle trade
A political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
Meiji Restoration
The terms proletariat (working class) and bourgeoisie (the capitalist class) were coined by this German philosopher
Karl Marx
The process of European and Asian countries leaving their colonies in Africa
decolonization
The name of the social program that would open up government transparency in the USSR and give more freedom to the press
glasnost