Abina + the Biological Old Regime
This results from humans' proximity to domesticated animals.
What was epidemic disease?
Abina thought she was married already, but Beyonce would have seen her as one of these.
What were "Single Ladies"?
In 1648, this agreement ending the Thirty Years War established the concept of sovereignty within international relations.
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
Cotton, Tobacco, and this.
What was sugar?
This is the national sport of the Netherlands.
What is (field) hockey?
This is what was depleted from soil with older agricultural practices.
What was reactive nitrogen?
Abina didn't celebrate and would have been annoyed at this being played at school dances in September, but Mariah Carey wouldn't care.
What was "All I Want for Christmas is You"?
When the Pope ceded most of the Western Hemisphere to Spain during the fifteenth century, this country received rights to the other half of the world.
Who was Portugal?
Spectral to the agricultural laborers near the core, plantation lands were considered as this to the small European Atlantic states.
What the "ghost acres"?
Britain's four "home" nations.
What is England, Scotland, Wales, and (N) Ireland.
Before 1800, humans were constrained by these fuels.
What were renewable sources of energy?
Besides Jack Harlow, this is the only song in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten that isn't a Christmas tune, although it does come from the Great White North and features a lot of ice in the video.
What is Tate McCrae's "Greedy"?
This pointed to squabbling European powers and their inability to get along.
What was fragmented sovereignty?
The "plantation complex" existed in this uniquely Western Hemisphere zone so critical to the core.
What was the peculiar periphery?
China's national sport.
What is Table Tennis?
This was the name used by Europeans for the region Abina lived in, modern-day Ghana, or what would have been the Asante Confederation in the nineteenth century.
What was the Gold Coast?
This artist began Taylor Swift's exile on the VMAs, and look what it made her do.
Who was Kanye?
This type of political state largely claimed sovereignty during the early modern era.
What is an empire?
The three largest islands in the Caribbean, one belonged to Spain, one was seized by Britain, and the other contained the "wealthiest" French colony in the world.
What was Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola (Haiti)?
In India, they say "It's an Indian game invented by the English."
What is cricket?
China, Europe, South Asia, the Aztec, and Inca.
What were civilizations?
Taylor Swift is on pace to surpass these legendary acts to become the most successful artist in pop music history by a significant margin.
Who are Elvis, the Beatles, and Michael Jackson?
Britain violated China's sovereignty in this nineteenth century episode, shifting global dominance for at least another 150 years.
What were the Opium Wars?
This ideology governed state relations with merchant activity, and propelled capitalism.
What was economic liberalism?
Both Britain and the Netherlands had these, and they were valuable stock.
What were "East India Companies."