unit 1 & 2
This Afro‑Eurasian trade network connected China to the Mediterranean and flourished under the Mongols.
What is the Silk Road?
This gunpowder empire ruled Persia and practiced Shia Islam as its state religion.
What is the Safavid Empire?
This revolution began in Britain and introduced mechanization and factory labor.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This alliance system, along with nationalism and militarism, contributed to WWI
What is the alliance system / entangling alliances?
This geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and USSR shaped global politics after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
This Islamic empire in South Asia used a centralized bureaucracy and Persian influence to govern.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
This system forced Indigenous labor in Spanish America, especially in silver mines.
What is the encomienda system?
This 1789 document from France declared natural rights and popular sovereignty.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
This treaty ended WWI and imposed harsh reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 1949 military alliance united Western nations against Soviet expansion.
What is NATO?
This West African ruler’s pilgrimage to Mecca displayed the region’s wealth and Islamic influence.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This empire used devshirme to recruit elite soldiers known as Janissaries.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This ideology justified European imperialism as a “civilizing mission.”
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1930s economic crisis led to mass unemployment and political extremism.
What is the Great Depression?
This Chinese leader introduced economic reforms after Mao, including the “Four Modernizations.”
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This Chinese dynasty revived Confucian civil service exams and expanded the Grand Canal.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This global exchange of crops, animals, and diseases reshaped populations worldwide.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This rebellion in India began after sepoys resisted British military practices.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny / Indian Rebellion of 1857?
The Turkic group who ruled over Egypt in the period 1250-1450
What is the Mamluk Sultanate?
This movement in the 20th century involved former colonies gaining independence.
What is decolonization?
This nomadic group created the largest land empire in history and revitalized Eurasian trade.
Who are the Mongols?
This East Asian dynasty restricted foreign trade to Canton and expanded territory under Kangxi
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This economic system encouraged colonies to supply raw materials to industrial powers
What is economic imperialism?
This U.S. program provided aid to rebuild Europe after WWII to prevent communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1994 agreement created a free‑trade zone between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?