Guns and ships, and so the balance shifts
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This thinker developed heliocentrism, challenging Church doctrine.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
This resource was the MOST critical to Britain’s early industrialization.
What is coal?
This was the largest continuous empire
What was the Mongol Empire? (1279 peak)
This is the religion that culminated many into one during Mughal rule, where the king, Akbar the Great, semi-made himself a god.
What is Din-i Ilahi?
This famous men instrumented many South American independence movements, ESPECIALLY ARGENTINA'S INDEPENDENCE
Who was Jose de San Martin?
This 18th-century intellectual movement in Scotland emphasized empirical reasoning and is associated with David Hume and Adam Smith.
What is the Scottish Enlightenment?
The social continuity that lingers on from the Vedas, but has been used throughout the ages, except for a pocket in the Mughal Empire
What is the Caste system?
This Ottoman administrative system recruited Christian boys, converted them, and trained them for state service.
What is the devshirme system?
This West African empire under Sunni Ali and Askia Muhammad blended Islamic governance with pre-Islamic political structures.
What was the Songhai empire?
This Iberian maritime technology combined lateen sails and a deep hull design, enabling Atlantic exploration in the 15th century.
What is the caravel?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that the separation of powers was essential to prevent tyranny.
Who was Montesquieu?
This 1848 text co-authored in Europe outlined historical materialism and predicted proletarian revolution.
What is The Communist Manifesto?
This Mughal administrative practice assigned nobles ranks tied to military and revenue obligations.
What is the Mansabdari system?
This rebellion in China was led by a man claiming to be the brother of Jesus Christ.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This was the battle often considered the turning point in the Pacific Theatre
What was the Battle of Midway? (June 1942), US lost one aircraft carrier - Japan lost 4
This 1859 publication introduced natural selection and became central to later ideological debates beyond biology.
What is On the Origin of Species?
This 1840s ideology advocated minimal government interference in markets and was linked to classical economists like Adam Smith.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This Japanese system preserved the emperor as a symbolic figure while real power was held by the shogunate military government.
What is the Tokugawa shogunate system?
This syncretic belief in the Americas blended African traditions with Christianity. This belief now dominates New Orleans and African American (not just USA) communities.
What is Vodou?
In this war that started in 1967, USA and USSR, in a surprising turn of events, both supported the same sides in the proxy war, whilst France and China were on the other side.
What was the Nigerian Civil War / Biafran War?
This philosopher, as a part of the German Enlightenment, wrote the name of the category in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the same year as Volcano Krakatoa's eruption.
Who was Friedrich Nietzsche?
This company was granted a monopoly and preceded its more famous British counterpart, and explored South Africa, East Indies and granted a monopoly.
What was the VOC (Vereenigde Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie)?
This Persian imperial practice under the Safavids used land revenue assignments in exchange for military service.
What is the Tiyul system?
This 19th-century Southeast Asian religious revival combined Islamic reform with anti-colonial resistance in Java.
Padri Movement