Post-Classical
What is a camel?
This technology allowed the Ottomans to conquer Constantinople in 1453
What is gunpowder?
What are cannons?
This time period rapidly increased technology and manufacturing
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Vladimir Lenin lead this group during the Russian Revolution.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
This man's death started one of the world's biggest religions.
Who is Jesus Christ?
This trade system brought goods from China all the way to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
West African slaves were transported to the Americas through this route
What is the Middle Passage?
This time period brought new ideas about government
The time period where Nuclear war between US and USSR was possible
What is the Cold War?
This new technology made the Cold War more deadly than previous wars.
What are Nuclear/Hydrogen bombs?
This religion was founded by Muhammad in the 600s C.E.
What is Islam?
This technology made the spread of ideas easier
What is the printing press?
The slave revolts in Haiti were led by this man
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
The political ideology of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
What is fascism?
This is the idea that all men are born free and equal in society.
What is the state of nature?
This economic and political system was used in Medieval Europe
What is feudalism?
This disease killed 90% of the Native American population
What is smallpox?
This is an implied agreement among the people to form a government
What is a social contract?
Violence, or the threat of violence, in order to gain political power or influence
What is terrorism?
Most enslaved Africans were brought to this region in the New World.
What is the Carribean?
This new technology told travelers which direction was North.
What is the compass?
This was the labor system that was used in the Americas
What is the Encomienda System?
This man is known as "El Libertador," who overthrew Spanish rule in South America
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The systematic annihilation of an ethnic group
What is genocide?
What are Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination?