1200-1450
Traveller along the Silk Roads
Marco Polo
These things traveled from Europe to the Americas along with Europeans while trading; caused for the death of many Native Americans
What is diseases?
This is the right to vote; women earned this much later than men, having to fight for it through thing such as protests
What is woman's suffrage?
What are the 4 MAIN causes of WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
This product led to a population boom in Asia
Champa Rice :)
This technology helped in the Indian Ocean Trade, thanks to Monsoon winds ; very important technology to know for the AP World History exam
What were lateen sails?
These three empires used gunpowder deprived from China to conquer lands and use in warfare
What were the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires?
This revolution was the transference of a cottage economy to one based around steam-powered mills
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Sparked by collapse of world trade, bank failures, stock markets, droughts, unemployment, etc.
What was the rise of The Great Depression?
This document created a relationship between the governing body of a state and the citizen, allowing for the overthrow of a state if certain requirements were not met.
The Social Contract
Inca system on forced labor
Mita System
The most common example of trading; was part of most of the trading between Europe and the Americas; brought many new animals and crops to both Europe and the Americas
What was the Columbian Exchange?
A war that happened between Great Britain and China, involving trading of a certain drug
What was the Opium War?
This was a non-conflict battle between the United States and the USSR; ideological struggle
Cold War
An agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided the newly discovered non-European lands between them
Treaty of Tordesillas
Built by the Abbasids and destroyed by the Mongols, an example of the islamic Golden Age
House of Wisdom
The more popular of the two branches of Islam; believed that the Prophet did not declare a successor
What are Sunni Islams?
The conquest and colonization of Africa by Western European powers.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
This was a split between Communist Eastern and Western Democratic Europe
Iron Curtain
Dispersed populations maintaining emotional or physical ties to a shared homeland while living across various foreign locations
Diasporic communities
The wealthiest man in history, who caused an economic crisis due to his abundance of gold; was the ruler of West Africa
Who was Mansa Musa?
This is the belief in commercial trading; Maritimes empires usually turned to this ideology, as it encourage colonialism
What is mercantilism?
What led to the start of the French Revolution?
taxes, debt, Estates General, Enlightenment
Gorbechev's 2 policies that helped lead to the end of the Cold War
Perestoika and Glasnot
Imperial nations felt it was their duty to develop the people they were conquering.
Civilizing Mission