UNIT 1-2
This was a Chinese dynasty that used the civil service exam and Confucian ideas to maintain a strong centralized bureaucracy.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This empire, known for its devshirme system, recruited Christian boys to serve in its military and bureaucracy.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This 18th-century event, sparked because of economic crisis, class tensions, and Enlightenment thought, ultimately led to the execution of a monarch, the abolition of feudal privileges, and a prolonged period of political instability known as the Reign of Terror.
What is the French Revolution?
economic event, beginning with the U.S. stock market crash in 1929, triggered something that led to widespread unemployment, destabilized governments, and provided fertile ground for the rise of authoritarian regimes.
What is the Great Depression?
This movement led to the use of western ideas in China to try and kick foreign powers out of China and led to the rise of Communist thought.
What is the May Fourth Movement?
This was the largest land empire in history
What is the Mongol Empire
This system granted Spanish settlers the right to extract labor from Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
This 19th-century ideology, shaped by Enlightenment values and Romanticism, held that people with shared language, culture, and historical experience should be united under a common government, and it was a driving force behind the unification of both Italy and Germany.
What is nationalism?
pivotal conference held in 1945 involving leaders from the Allied powers and laid the groundwork for postwar Europe, including plans for the division of Germany and the creation of the United Nations.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The worldwide conductor of importing, producing, and exporting businesses consisting of 144 members
What is the World Trade Organization?
The trans-Saharan trade route that connected West Africa to North Africa and the Islamic world, and facilitated the trade of this valuable mineral, which was very often traded with gold.
What is Salt?
This dynasty in China reinstated the civil service examination system and expanded the empire's territory significantly.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
In response to the social inequalities of industrial capitalism, this 19th-century ideological movement, associated with thinkers like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, argued for the collective ownership of the means of production and the eventual abolition of class systems through revolution.
What is communism?
The 1962 confrontation brought the world to the brink of nuclear war after the Soviet Union placed missiles in a Caribbean country, prompting a U.S. naval blockade and intense diplomatic negotiations.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Name the woman who was the leader of conservatives in Great Britain and improved the economy
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This religious reform movement that arose in South Asia and was brought to reconcile elements of Islam and Hinduism, advocating monotheism, the rejection of caste, and spiritual equality.
What is Sikhism
This term describes the voyage that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The1917 agreement between European powers promised support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, igniting long-term tensions in the Middle East.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
The movement, which were particularly strong in post-colonial Africa and Asia, advocated for political independence from Cold War superpower influence and emphasized unity among developing nations.
Name the pandemic that killed 50-100 million people worldwide in 1918
What is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic?
These four regional subdivisions of the Mongol Empire were created after the death of Genghis Khan and included the Golden Horde, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ilkhanate, and the Chagatai Khanate.
what are the Khanates?
The Safavid Empire established this branch of Islam as the state religion, distinguishing itself from its Sunni neighbors.
What is Twelver Shi'a Islam?
This Chinese political campaign, launched in the mid-20th century by Mao Zedong, aimed to transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization, but instead led to widespread famine and millions of deaths.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy in South Africa lasted from 1948 to the early 1990s, and was eventually dismantled due to both internal resistance and international pressure.
What is the Apartheid?
Name the revolution that started a rapid diffusion of new agricultural innovations, including high-yield seeds and fertilizer.
What is The Green Revolution?