Early Stuff
1450–1750
1750–1900
1900-Today
Themes & Patterns
100

This Chinese philosophy emphasized hierarchy, filial piety, and social order.
 

What is Confucianism?

100

This maritime power established trading-post empires in Africa and Asia.

What is Portugal?

100

This revolution that utilized the guillotine, overthrew the _________ monarchy in 1789.

What is the French monarchy?

100

World War I, or the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of this man.

Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

100

This process involves movement from rural areas to cities.

What is urbanization?

200

This trans-Saharan empire was known for its wealth in gold and Mansa Musa.

What is the Mali Empire?

200

This system granted Spanish settlers the right to extract labor from Indigenous people.

What is the encomienda system?

200

This innovation powered factories and trains during the Industrial Revolution.
 

What is the steam engine?

200

This global economic crisis began with a stock market crash in 1929.
 

What is the Great Depression?

What was the big farming crisis on the American Great Plains referred to as?

FDR's response?

200

This term describes increasing global interconnectedness.

What is globalization?

300

This network connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and China.
 

What is the Indian Ocean trade network?

300

This global transfer spread crops like potatoes and maize worldwide.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

What if you had a Long Essay Question on this topic?  Can you supply two or three ex's of how new products might effect the new or old world?

300

This ideology called for the overthrow of capitalist systems.
 

 What is communism (Marxism)?

300

This Cold War policy aimed to limit the spread of communism.

What is containment?

300

This economic system is based on private ownership and markets.

What is capitalism?

400

This American empire built an extensive road system across the Andes.

What is the Inca Empire?

400

This empire in India blended Persian, Islamic, and Indian traditions.
 

What is the Mughal Empire?

400

This Japanese reform effort rapidly industrialized the country.

What is the Meiji Restoration?

400

This leader founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Who is Mao Zedong? 

Who is the economic reform leader in China in the late 1970's?




Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms.

400

This environmental issue is linked to rising global temperatures.

What is climate change? 

Renewable resources? Ex's?


Fossil Fuels? Ex's?

500

This traveler from Morocco documented his journeys across Dar al-Islam and beyond.

Who is Ibn Battuta?

500

This joint-stock company dominated Dutch trade in Asia.

What is the Dutch East India Company?

500

This European country was the first to industrialize during the Industrial Revolution?

What was England?

Why? What factors aided this?

500

This Cold War conflict took place 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?


What was the conflict all about?  The outcome?

500

An international treaty adopted in 1997 (and entered into force in 2005) under the UNFCCC, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.

What was the Kyoto Protocol?