A physical constraint on women's activities in Tang and Song China.
What is footbinding?
Name three Gunpowder Empires.
Ottomans, Qing, Safavid
What is technological development is illustrated here?
The Astrolabe
This philosopher believed that the role of government was to secure the rights of its citizens.
John Locke
President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to address the problems of the Great Depression in the US.
The New Deal
Floating gardens constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs to increase agricultural yields.
Chinampas
Which gunpowder empire practiced Shi'a Islam?
Safavids
The economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global trade is unchangeable.
Mercantilism
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain. Why?
Coal, iron, access to water
The Soviet Unions response to NATO
The Warsaw Pact
What are TWO natural resources that allowed Africa to prosper during the period 1200 to 1450?
Gold, Salt, and Ivory
A common claim from the Middle Ages that the right to rule was given to a king by God.
Divine Right
What caused the demographic affect shown in the chart?
The Great Dying, disease, smallpox
A coup d'état resulting in the dissolution of Japan's feudal system of government. In its place, the imperial system was restored, as many members of the ruling samurai class wanted to unite the country under a new, centralized government.
The Meiji Restoration
This genocide occurred in a central African country and resulted in the deaths of millions of Tutsi at the hands of the Hutu.
Rwandan genocide
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controlled a small area of northern India.
Delhi Sultanate
This Mughal mosque was an example of Shah Jahan legitimizing power.
The Taj Mahal
A forced labor system practiced by conquistadors in the former Inca Empire.
Mita System
A meeting of European powers to provide for orderly colonization of Africa in 1884
The Berlin Conference
Who was the Chinese ruler responsible for China becoming communist?
Mao Zedong
A meritocratic practice that Chinese bureaucrats needed to pass to serve in state, based on Confucian concepts,
Civil Service Exam
The sale of these grants absolution from punishments for sin
Indulgences.
Ming China and Tokugawa Japan
Great Britain established a penal colony here leading to the migration of British convicts.
Australia
A communist guerilla organization in Cambodia that overthrew the right-wing government and led a genocide.
Khmer Rouge