SOCIAL + CULTURAL
Mausoleum built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan that illustrates syncretic blend between Indian and Arabic architectural styles.
What is the Taj Mahal?
Double Jeopardy
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus' voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
He established Belgium as a colonial power in Africa and is best known for the widespread atrocities that were carried out under his rule, as a result of which as many as 10 million people died in the Congo Free State.
Who is King Leopold II?
Economic practice by which government sought to ensure that exports exceeded imports and to accumulate wealth in the form of mostly gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
Economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and was later exploited by the Spanish as they forced Incas to mine silver.
What is the Mita System?
A political theory developed during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from divine authority.
What is the MANDATE OF HEAVEN?
Paintings that show the racial mixing of a family and the hierarchy of society.
What are Casta paintings?
Invention of James Watt that revolutionized power and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as elite military units.
What is Devshirme?
Double Jeopardy
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war.
What is communism?
Religious reform movement begun by Catholic monk Martin Luther who began to question the practices of the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The unification or blending of opposing people, ideas, or practices, frequently in the realm of religion.
What is SYNCRETISM?
The fight for the right of women to vote in elections.
What is women's suffrage movement?
What is palm oil?
Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Who is the Mughal Empire?
Conflicts fought in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty.
What are the Opium Wars?
Double Jeopardy
Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This was the system of testing designed to select the most studious and learned candidates for appointment as bureaucrats in the Chinese government
What are CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS?
Movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
U.S. federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Worker focused on performing one task that was part of a larger series of tasks, at the end of which a product would be produced.
What is Specialization of Labor?
A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism.
What is the British East India Company?
Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world
Who is MANSA MUSA?
Term for the the task that white colonizers believed they "had to" impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies.
What is the White Man's Burden?
The practice of switching different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil and led to increased crop yields and growing population.
What is crop rotation?
Double Jeopardy
Meeting where European powers sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources and land at the expense of the African people.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Legislation that took land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village and change it to privately owned land.
What are Enclosure Acts?
A period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Descendants of Spanish-born but born in Latin America who resented their inferior social, political, economic status.
Who are creoles?
Radical French feminist and author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman whose radical ideas eventually led to her death by guillotine in revolutionary France.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
Legislation of the new Commonwealth of Australia that effectively stopped all non-European immigration into the country.
What is White Australia Policy?
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What is the Social Contract?
Translates to "allow to do"; an economic policy or attitude of letting the economy self-regulate without government interference.
What is Laissez-Faire?
In 1868, a Japanese state-sponsored industrialization and Westernization effort.
What is Meiji Restoration?
This is the term for components of a product that are identical, which make it easier to assemble manufactured goods.
They were popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century, allowed relatively unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost, and made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier.
What are interchangeable parts?
Double Jeopardy
Applied ideas of Darwin’s idea about natural selection and survival of the fittest to human societies.
What is Social Darwinism?
A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
What is a caravel?
Rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable.
What are natural rights?
Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples that was practiced by Europeans in the Indian Ocean.
What is trading post empire?
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members.
What are labor unions?
Explain ONE similarity.
Aztecs/Mexica and China (1200-1750).
See teacher for validation.