1200-1450
What characterized trans-Saharan trade by 1250
Muslim merchants
The other name for this time period.
What is the Age of Exploration?
The other name for this time period.
What is the Age of Revolutions?
The "spark" that ignited WWI was the assassination of this Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
What was an important factor in the spread of the bubonic plague
Mongol expansion and facilitation of trade routes
The three Islamic "Gunpowder Empires" that dominated the Middle East and South Asia during this era.
What are the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires?
This 1789 document from the French Revolution declared that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
The 1919 treaty that ended WWI but placed heavy reparations and "war guilt" on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
what nation had the greatest manufacturing capacity from 1000-1450
What is CHINA?
The system used by the Ottomans to recruit Christian boys to serve as elite soldiers and administrators.
What is the Devshirme system?
The 18th-century change in farming techniques that increased food production and led to the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Second Agricultural Revolution?
The 13-day standoff in 1962 that brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Besides conquest, what was the primary, long-term legacy of the Mongol Empire?
What is the Pax Mongolica + the spread of disease/trade (specifically the Black Death).
This Chinese naval explorer demonstrated his country's economic power in the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
The economic theory that drove European colonization, emphasizing a favorable balance of trade and accumulating gold.
What is Mercantilism?
The phrase describing the era of British rule in India.
What is the British Raj?
The Soviet policy of "restructuring" the economy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.
What is Perestroika?
The social class of appointed officials who passed Confucian exams and ran the Chinese government.
Who are the scholarly gentry?
The edict that "closed" this country off to foreigners to protect traditional culture.
What is the Edict of 1635?
A response to imperialism where "Harmonious Fists" attacked foreigners and Christians.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Critics of globalization often point to this practice, where multinational corporations move operations to countries with fewer labor and environmental regulations to cut costs.
What is "Outsourcing" (or "Offshoring")?