Inca & Aztec
This labor system required Inca citizens to work for the state for part of the year.
What is the mita system?
This French colony was the site of the Haitian Revolution.
What is Saint-Domingue?
This machine powered factories and trains during the Industrial Revolution
What is the steam engine?
This company began British control over India
What is the [British] East India Company?
This term describes wars like Vietnam, supported by superpowers.
What are proxy wars?
The Aztecs relied on this merchant class to manage long-distance trade.
Who are the pochteca?
He was the most famous leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Workers formed these groups to fight for better wages and conditions.
What are labor unions?
This 1857 conflict led to direct British rule in India.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
He led China through the Great Leap Forward.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The Inca used this tool made of knotted strings to record information
What is a quipu?
The revolution in Haiti was heavily influenced by this European philosophical movement.
What is the Enlightenment
This economic system fueled industrial growth but led to worker exploitation.
What is capitalism?
European nations divided Africa at this meeting
What is the Berlin Conference?
This economic system was supported by the Soviet Union
What is communism?
This system organized colonial society by race in the Americas.
What is the colonial caste system?
This event in France helped inspire the Haitian Revolution by spreading ideas of liberty and equality.
What is the French Revolution?
He criticized capitalism and promoted socialism
Who is Karl Marx?
This strategy used by the British encouraged religious division in India.
What is divide-and-rule?
This failed Chinese campaign aimed to rapidly industrialize the countryside through collectivized farming and backyard steel production
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Unlike the Inca, the Aztec economy was less centralized and allowed more of this.
What is independent trade?
The Haitian Revolution was the first to do this
What is successfully end slavery and establish a Black republic?
Industrial cities grew rapidly due to this process.
What is urbanization?
These were created without regard for ethnic groups and still cause conflict today.
What are arbitrary borders?
[Territorial lines drawn without regard for local realities]
Built in 1961, this barrier became a powerful symbol of the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?