Social
an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one's birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status originating in India
What is the Caste System (Caste)?
a political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen.
What is Fascism?
This technology that was not originally invented in the Islamic world helped Islamic empires rise to power; for example, helping the Ottomans conquer Constantinople in1453.
What is gunpowder?
What is Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism?
this exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service and peasants were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce.
What is Feudalism
This event circa early 19th century was the first ever successful rebellion led by enslaved people.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
The unveiling of this weapon ended World War II and started the arms race during the Cold War.
What are nuclear weapons? (also accepted: Atomic Bomb)
a movement that emphasized the importance of reason or logic, rights to freedom, and separation of church and state.
What is the Enlightenment?
A tax on non-Muslims, used by the Ottoman Empire and Sultanates of modern India.
What is the Jizya Tax?
member of the old aristocracy in Russia
What are boyars?
This Confucianism aligned test was used until the end of the 19th century to determine who was eligible to serve in the government in China.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
These two Chinese dynasties invented gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and paper money.
What are the Tang and Song dynasties?
the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
What is Syncretism?
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
What is encomienda?
a Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This industrial revolution invention was eventually replaced by the combustion engine and electricity and was powered by water and coal.
What is the steam engine?
A system of payment in which conquered peoples pay a tribute to the conqueror to show their superiority over the land. The system was put into place in the Americas by the Aztecs and was later copied by other American civilizations.
What is the Tribute System?
the dominant 16th century economic system based in trade that relied on a colony sending natural resources to the mother country, which created goods to sell back to the colonies and the rest of the globe.
A system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party, the governing party of South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
What is the Apartheid System?
King Louis XIV used this location to live and monitor nobility, ensuring their loyalty because he always had eyes on them.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This major construction project by the British in Egypt allowed faster transport of goods from Europe to Asia; control over it later became a major issue during the Cold War.
What is the Suez Canal?
This practice was used by the Ottomans to covert young Christian boys into Islamic Janissaries.
What is the Devshirme system?
hereditary tax collector who could retain 10 percent of the revenue he collected in the Mughal Empire and was made landowning aristocrats by the British in the late 18th century.
What is a Zamindar?