Unit 1-2
This trade network connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia before 1500.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
This trade route brought enslaved Africans to the Americas to work plantations.
What is the TransAtlantic Slave Trade (Triangular Trade/ Middle Passage)?
This is the country that was the first to industrialize.
What is Great Britain?
This country benefited the most economically from World War 2.
What is the United States?
This is the process in the late 20th-century which saw companies to operate across borders and led to more economic interdependence among nations.
What is Globalization?
This group conquered much of Asia and expanded trade along the Silk Road.
Who were the Mongols?
This global exchange moved people, crops, and diseases after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This reform movement in Japan led to rapid modernization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This international organization was created after WWII to promote peace and allowed negotiations between nations.
What is the United Nations?
This is rising global temperatures since industrialization which began to speed up thanks to globalization.
What is Climate Change (Global Warming)?
This belief system teaches that eliminating desire ends suffering.
What is Buddhism?
This Land-Based Empire attempted to adopt more western European practices in a process of "Westernization."
What is the Russian Empire?
This is the period where new ideologies challenged systems like slavery by promoting equality and natural rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
This country suffered the highest number of deaths in WWII.
What is the Soviet Union?
This innovation allowed improved transportation of goods around the globe.
What are shipping containers (Containerization)?
This language developed along the East African coast due to commerce from trade.
What is Swahili?
This Portuguese Prince pushed for Portugal to become a Maritime power by financing navigation schools.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
Britain imported this resource from the Southern United States, India, and Egypt for use in textiles.
What is Cotton?
This event divided British India into two nations in 1947 (India & Pakistan).
What is the Partition of India?
These advances in the medical field helped reduce death rates worldwide.
What are antibiotics & vaccines?
This group spread agriculture and their language across sub-Saharan Africa.
Who were the Bantus?
This was the term for system in the Ottoman Empire that young Christians that were enslaved and trained to become soldiers or advisors.
What is the devshirme system?
This African nation was successful in defending itself from Italian invasion during the Age of Imperialism.
What is Ethiopia?
This is the name given to the movement that refused to choose a side during the Cold War.
What is the non-aligned movement?
This protest against the WTO in 1999 is an example of anti-globalization activism.
What is the Battle for Seattle?