Trade
This ship, popular during ~1200-~1450 carried a large amount of trade throughout the Indian Ocean Trade Network.
What is a junk/dhow?
Who is James Watt?
One of the primary goods traded along the Silk Road.
What is gunpowder?
This movement drastically transformed Japan from ~1850-~1930.
What is the Meiji Restoration.
This major milestone transferred goods and diseases across the Atlantic.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
This device made by James Hargreaves allowed one to increase the amount of yarn they could make.
What is the spinning jenny?
This was the first artificial satellite to enter space.
What is Sputnik?
The use of these types of weapons would definitely have "heated up" the Cold War.
What are Atomic (Nuclear) Bombs?
This Chinese Social Media is a local competitor of global US brands like Facebook.
What is Weibo?
Knowledge of these increased movement around the Indian Ocean Trade Network.
What are Monsoon Winds?
These types of businesses allowed the owners to take on more risks without the potential loss of personal wealth.
This pseudo-science was later debunked as fake, but during the age of imperialism this field would study skull sizes and shapes to make claims about race.
What is phrenology?
What German naval weapon changed how World War I was fought?
These poorly constructed buildings served as apartments for workers during the industrial revolution.
What are tenements?
What are chinampas?
This industrial era trade route connected Moscow to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
This was the "writing" system used for Incan Engineering and Trade.
What is Quipu?
This "real" system of how to engage in "politics" lead to the sometimes forcible unification of modern states like Germany and Italy.
What is realpolitik?
Using interchangeable parts and the assembly line, Eli Whitney inadvertently created this system where each worker could focus on one type of task.
What is the Specialization of Labor?
This is when you manipulate a cell of an organism to better its usage to humans.
What is Genetically Engineering?
This is of the first transnational corporations that started as creator and seller of household goods like soap.
What is Unilever?
This Muslim Scholar is known as the father of Trigonometry.
Who is Nasir al-Din al-Tusi?
This Muslim Empire would conquer Spain in 711, leading to great places of learning and the expansion of technology to places like Cordoba.
Who are the Umayyads?
Powerful Japanese business organizations that arose during the late 1800's are known as these.
What are zaibatsus?
This farming technique of the Manor System was when multiple crops were cycled through one's farmland.
What is the three-field system?