Social/Cultural
A social system in India that was based off of a person's karma. There were 5 different castes one could be in.
What is the caste system?
Fast-ripening and drought resistant rice that created a population explosion.
What is champa rice?
A Confucian-style government exam required to gain office that ANYONE (except women) could take.
What is the civil service exam?
A man-made water system that connected parts of China.
What is the Grand Canal?
A type of currency that China used to make trading loads lighter because coins were too heavy for travel.
What is paper money?
A syncretic religion that combined both Hinduism and Islam during the Mughal reign.
What is sikhism?
A series of land-based routes that allowed for trade to become easier throughout Eurasia. The Mongols gave it security when they became the largest empire.
What are the Silk Roads?
A European intellectual movement in the 15th and 16th centuries that emphasized freedom, rational thought, and self-determination or governance.
What is the Enlightenment?
The growth of cities as people moved to find work in factories.
What is urbanization?
What is a lateen sail?
Martin Luther began this in order to make the Catholic Church stop selling indulgences.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
THe largest maritime-based trade route that was incredibly popular in South Asia. Later on, Europeans sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to get direct access to it.
What are the Indian Ocean trade routes?
This was inspired by the Enlightenment and led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was said that all men have unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the American Revolution?
A type of colony where settlers intend to permanently relocate to a new place and establish society there.
What is a settler colony?
The person who invented to assembly line, which make mass manufacturing much easier and allowed for business owners to pay lower wages to workers.
Who is Henry Ford?
This religion spread through the Silk Roads and was created in India during the time period 1250-1450. It ended up spreading to China and Southeast Asia.
What is Buddhism?
Empires focused on developing small trade outposts instead of controlling land. Portugal established these in East Africa and Asia.
What are trade post empires?
A British philosopher who criticized capitalism and developed utilitarianism.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
A British act that reserved land near Mississippi River to Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A japanese suicide bomber, mainly known for bombing during the World Wars.
What is a kamikaze?
The governors of each of the 5 regions in New Spain - they formed the encomienda system.
What are viceroys?
This place traded gold to the Portuguese in exchange for weapons, then later traded slaves for weapons.
What is the Asante Kingdom?
A rebellion in South Asia that led to the English government taking direct control of india from the British East India Company.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This led to the downfall of four monarchies: Germany, Ottoman, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. Maps were redrawn.
What are the consequences of WWI?
A way for certain countries to selectively adopt key western technologies for convenience like railroads while also keeping their traditional cultures.
What is defensive modernization?