Unit 1 and 2
Explain one reason why the Delhi Sultanate struggled to maintain long-term power in India.
What are divisions between Hindu and Muslim populations
Name one way the Safavid Empire differed religiously from the Ottomans.
The Safavids were Shi'a Muslims, while the Ottomans were Sunni.
What ideology(ies) emerged as a response to industrialization?
Marxism/communism, socialism, capitalism
Identify and describe the four causes of WWI
Militarization-arms race between England and Germany, tension and need to use weapons
Alliances- mutual protection but also distrust and caused small conflict to grow larger
Imperialism- the desire to extend territory and seize territory from others
Nationalism- the desire for autonomy and fighting for a way of life
This policy of institutionalized racial segregation was ended in South Africa in the 1990s.
What is apartheid
Identify one technological innovation that helped Indian Ocean trade flourish
Lanteen sail, junk ship, dhow
This East Asian dynasty restored Han Chinese rule after the Mongols.
What is the Ming
Name one global region that industrialized later and describe a challenge it faced.
Russia and Japan, both feudal societies that lacked investment until revolutions (Russian/Meiji) and state sponsored industry.
In what ways were WWI and WWII total wars
Government control of media, censorship, government control of economy, labor, production and distribution, changing gender roles.
This ideological concept, promoted by leaders like Sukarno and Nehru, sought to assert postcolonial identity distinct from Cold War blocs.
What is the non-aligned movement
Explain how the Mongol Empire promoted trade during its height.
They secured and unified trade routes, reduced banditry, and facilitated exchange across Eurasia.
How were the impacts of the Columbian exchange similar and different on the Old Wold and the New?
Both received new crops and livestock (OW: Turkeys, potatoes, NW: Cattle, sugar)
New World experienced population decrease, social changes (Casta) and introduction of African slave labor.
OW experience population increase, and inflation
Analyze how Enlightenment thought challenged existing political structures.
It questioned monarchies and promoted republicanism, secularism, and individual rights.
What was the foreign policy of the US post WWII and how did it lead to the Cold War?
Marshall plan- money to rebuild Europe and create alliance
Truman doctrine- US will enforce the right of people to be democratic, by force if necessary
Tensions between USSR and US over global dominance and influence
The Balfour Declaration and subsequent British Mandate are often cited as root causes of this long-term conflict.
What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Compare the Indian Ocean trade network with the Silk Road in terms of goods, geography, and transportation.
Indian Ocean: bulk goods via ships, coastal cities; Silk Road: luxury goods via caravans, inland routes.
Explain how labor systems changed with the introduction of Europeans to the Americas
Systems like mit'a were exploited, the Spanish introduced Haciendas and the encomienda and eventually slavery with the introduction of sugar
Name the four revolutions we analyzed and their causes
1. American - Enlightenment and mercantilist policies
2. Latin American- Enlightenment, mercantilist policies and social hierarchy
3. French- American Revolution, Enlightenment and estates system
Haitian- Enlightenment, French Revolution
What was the global impact of the Great Depression?
Led to totalitarian regimes worldwide, Russia emerged as industrial super power.
This set of meetings and accords aimed to combat climate change but faced criticism for lack of enforcement.
The Kyoto Protocol
How and why did state building occur in W. Europe.
How: Feudalism, manorialism, church at top, kings, lords, vassals, knights serfs. Then to large kingdoms with lords having diminished power and lands.
Why: Need for protection from warring kingdoms, geographically isolated, then agricultural revolution and Black Death broke down feudalism and kingdoms emerged.
Identify the 6 land-based/gunpowder empires and identify a defining characteristic about them.
Ottomans- Janissaries, devshirme, sunni islam
Safavid- Shahs (not sultans), quizilbash, shi'a
Russia- Eastern Orthodox, cossacks, feudal
Japan- Shoguns, samurai, daimyo, isolationism
Ming/Qing- Confucianism, isolationist, inflation of silver trade
Mughal- Hindu/Muslim, Zamindar
Name one way a people attempted to resist imperialism in this time period.
What was Lenin's economic plan and what did it do?
NEP- Loosened strict war time control of industry allowing for some private ownership of land, small business and farms to sell their surplus for profit, government control of all major industries
Decolonization movements were influenced by...
Nationalism, conflict between superpowers, pressure from international organizations and weakening public support of imperialism.