Empires
This empire used the devshirme system to recruit Janissaries.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This route connected China to the Mediterranean world.
What is the Silk Roads?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote about natural rights and the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
This invention by James Watt depended on coal and harnessed the power of steam.
What is the steam engine?
This wall symbolized the division of Germany during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This empire was ruled by Akbar and promoted religious tolerance.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This disease spread widely through Afro-Eurasian trade routes in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death?
This revolution is most closely associated with Toussaint Louverture and represented the only successful large-scale slave revolt in modern history.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This economic system is based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
This U.S. policy aimed to contain the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This Chinese dynasty sponsored Zheng He’s voyages.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This Dutch ship was used to dominate trade in the Indian Ocean during the 17th century.
What is the Fluyt?
This Latin American leader helped liberate much of northern South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This social class grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the working class/proletariat?
This organization was formed by communist nations in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This Christian African kingdom successfully resisted Italian colonization at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
What is Ethiopia?
This Mongol-created period of relative stability greatly increased trade, cultural diffusion, and travel across Eurasia.
What is Pax Mongolica?
This event marked the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
This labor system replaced slavery in many colonies and relied heavily on contracts that restricted worker freedom.
What is indentured servitude?
This 1992 agreement created a free trade zone between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
This East African civilization developed wealthy trading city-states such as Kilwa and Mombasa through Indian Ocean commerce.
What is the Swahili Coast?
These merchants dominated trade in the Sahara Desert.
Who are Berbers?
This rebellion in China was heavily influenced by Christian ideas and resulted in one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This Japanese period was marked by rapid industrialization and modernization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This policy of openness was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev.
What is glasnost?