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What was the key characteristic of state-building in Song China?
The civil service examination system.
The drive for state building in Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Polices that limited foreign influence.
The Bolshevik Revolution was driven by
Dissatisfaction with the tsar from the common people
What did the USSR and China use to grow industrially?
The Five-Years plan and The Great Leap Forward.
Why did independence movements increase?
Colonies recognized how Europe was left weakened after WWII
The spread of islam into Southeast Asia and West Africa mainly happened by...
The missionary work of Sufi traders.
Impact of the industrial revolution on European social structures.
Growth of cities and new working class.
Total war
mobilization of most of a countries resources and people
The Impact of Globalization on economic inequality.
either created economic inequality or growth for countries
What and why were military alliances important during the Cold War?
They were alliances like NATO and the Warsaw pact,It allowed for many countries to be allies and helped stop nuclear warfare.
The Silk roads facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases. How did it impact technology.
It diffused technology like gunpowder and the compass.
The Scramble for Africa
Colonization and division of Africa to European powers.
Great depression left an effect of
weakening democratic governments and fueled ideologies of facism
The rise of environmental movements responded to
negative impacts of industrialization
The main two ideaologies at the time of the cold war
communism and capitalism
The Mongol Empire did what to the trade networks.
Made trade safe and popular.
Meji Restoration in Japan
rapid industrialization and centralization of power
Rise of strong nationalist movements and sometimes violence
The Green Revolution
What led to fast population growth post-WWII?
The green revolution, which created ways for more crops to be produced and protected. More food means more people. It was also easier to support a family because there was new job opportunities. Which started the baby boom when the men came back to the war and got married then had kids.
The political structure of the Abbasid Caliphate.
What was a significant cause of revolutions in Latin America
Influence of Enlightenment Ideas and American revolution
The Cold war was
Ideological struggle of global influence, shown through proxy wars, arms races, and propoganda
The end of the Cold war left what
fall of USSR and US as sole superpower
Proxy wars
Larger superpowers supported opposite sides in smaller wars. They supplied men, resources, or advice during civil wars so the could influence the people to follow their ideologies.