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This West African city thrived around 1200 as a major center of trade and Islamic learning.
What is Timbuktu?
This theory argues that early peoples migrated from Asia into North America.
What is the Beringia Land Bridge Theory?
This elite group held the most political power in French Haiti before the revolution.
Who were the Grand Blancs?
Britain industrialized first largely because it had large supplies of this key resource.
What is coal?
This group gained more money and education than poor whites in colonial Haiti despite discrimination.
Who were Free People of Color?
This philosophy blended Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ideas during the Song dynasty.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
These empires declined largely due to weak leadership and internal divisions.
What were the Gunpowder Empires?
Absolutists justified their authority through this doctrine claiming God chose them to rule.
What is Divine Right?
Workers faced long hours, low wages, and unsafe machines during this major historical era.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This belief system emphasizes a covenant between God and His people.
What is Judaism?
This dynasty’s civil service exams were based on mastery of the Confucian classics.
What were the Tang-Song civil service exam?
This Chinese dynasty turned to isolationism to protect its culture from foreign influence.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This event symbolized the French people's open challenge to the royal authority in 1789.
What is storming of the Bastille?
This invention expanded transportation networks and symbolized industrial progress.
What were railroads?
This empire's Taj Mahal remains one of the most famous architectural achievements in world history.
What is the Mughal Empire?
The Mongols inadvertently spread this deadly pandemic across Eurasia.
What is the Black Death?
These New World crops dramatically improved European diets after 1492.
What are corn and potatoes?
Enlightenment philosopher John Locke argued that governments must protect these rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This reformer advocated for improved factory conditions and health and sanitation laws during the Industrial Revolution in his book “The Conditions of the Working Class in England”.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
Enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas on this brutal route.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Mongol emperor established the Yuan Dynasty in China.
Who was Kublai Khan?
This religion, central to the Safavid Empire, shaped its political and cultural identity.
What is Shia Islam?
This document inspired Haitian demands for equality by declaring universal rights for citizens.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This new social class emerged due to industrial wage labor and poor working conditions.
Who were the proletariat?
This natural disaster-driven wind pattern made Indian Ocean trade predictable for centuries.
What are the Monsoon Winds?