Units 1-3
A collection of trade routes that navigated through Central and East Asia.
What was the Silk Road?
The captain of the first ship to ever circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
The last ruler of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikal Gorbechav?
An ideology formed by an Italian dictator named Benito Mussolini.
What is fascism?
A Eurocentric social ideology believes politics and war are a "survival of the fittest".
The invention that directly caused the fall of Constantinople in 1453 (according to historians).
What are cannons?
A series of political and religious developments in Europe during the 16th century.
A geopolitcal policy made by the US to prevent communism from spreading throughout the world.
What was the Containment Policy?
This scientist discovered many of our fundamental physics concepts.
Who was Isaac Newton?
A supreme ruler/monarch over a Muslim empire.
What is a Sultan?
The well-known ruler of the largest continuous empire to have ever existed.
Who was Genghis Khan?
The form of government present in pre-revolution France.
What is Absolutist Monarchy?
A social movement in the 1800s and 1900s that caused the formation of the 19th amendment in the US constituion.
The conservative poster child of the Cold War.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
A type of feudal lord that was most prominent in pre-industrialized Japan.
What were the Daimyos?
The last ruler of the Incan Empire.
Who was Atahualpa?
The most oppressed people group (according to Karl Marx).
What is the proletariat?
The famous French president that formed the 5th Republic of France.
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
The relationship between a state's military and industrial defense power.
What is the Military-Industrial Complex?
This Chinese dynasty was most known for the flowering of Chinese culture, especially its growing Daoist elements. This dynasty reunited China after a long period of instability called the Five Dynasties period.
What was the Song Dynasty?
The indeginous leader of an anti-colonial group that often fought against the Spanish colonists in Peru.
Who was Tupac Amaru II?
Arguably the most important waterway of the 19th century.
What is the Suez Canal?
The historical period from 600 BCE to 600 CE. This period was most known for its political and philosophical developments in Greece.
What was the Classical Age?
A form of Buddhism that emerged in Tibet and Mongolia. It is directly translated as the "Thunderbolt Vehicle".
What is Vajrayana Buddhism?