Unit 1: Geography and World Religions
This continent is the largest in both size and population.
What is Asia?
These Muslim empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal) gained power using this key military innovation.
What is gunpowder?
This Enlightenment idea states that government receives its power from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This fossil fuel powered the first steam engines and helped launch the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
What is coal?
This holy book is used in Judaism.
What is the Torah?
These communities—Armenian, Chinese, Swahili, Gujarati—helped connect Indian Ocean trade by settling far from home.
What are diaspora communities?
This revolution created the first successful slave uprising in world history.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This term describes people moving from rural areas into cities for factory work.
What is urbanization?
This world religion emphasizes filial piety and social harmony rather than worshiping gods.
What is Confucianism?
The Spanish crown used these colonial officials to rule their American colonies in the king’s name.
What are viceroys?
The American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions were influenced by these 18th-century ideas about rights and equality.
What are Enlightenment ideas?
These two economic systems—one based on private ownership, one on public ownership—became central debates during industrialization.
What are capitalism and socialism?
A photograph, diary, or artifact created during a historical event is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This global event weakened Indigenous communities and helped Europeans conquer the Americas using steel weapons, horses, and alliances.
What are the Atlantic Revolutions?
Nationalism can do both of these two things to societies—one positive, one negative.
What is unite and divide?
Give one major reason why the Industrial Revolution began first in Britain.
What are: access to coal, cheap cotton from colonies, rising population, stable government, geography, steam engine innovations,
These two religions both originated in India and share beliefs like karma and reincarnation, but differ in their views on the caste system and enlightenment.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
Name two adaptation or resistance strategies used by Indigenous Americans against European conquest.
What are: revolts, alliances, maintaining cultural traditions, migration, hidden resistance, blending beliefs?
This major reason explains why many revolutions in 1848 failed even though they spread across Europe.
What is the lack of unity between middle-class liberals and working-class radicals?
Name one push factor and one pull factor that led millions to migrate between 1750–1900.
Push: famine, poverty, land loss, persecution, job scarcity, war
Pull: factory work, land opportunities, higher wages, safety, new markets