The Silk Roads
A series of roads, waterways, railroads, or air routes that allow groups to trade goods with one another
Trade Network
Serf or Peasant
An Italian explorer who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and European colonization of the Americas
Christopher Columbus
The period in which the production of goods shifted from hand production methods to complex machines.
The Industrial Revolution
When a country extends its power and influence through military force
Imperialism
A trade network between east Asia (China) and western Europe (Roman Empire)
Silk Roads
The Crusades
The extensive movements of plants, animals, diseases, and peoples between the Old and New Worlds after Columbus made his famous voyage in 1492
the Columbian Exchange
Production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence
Assembly Lines
Conflicts fought between the British and China (1839-1842 and 1856-1858) after China tried to restrict the importation of foreign goods, especially opium
The Opium Wars
These were a series of nomadic tribes in the central asian steppes that created the largest empire in world history
(they also strengthened the Silk Roads)
The Mongols
Powerful landowners that were granted lands, or fiefs, from a King or Emperor
Lord
The doctrine, developed in the West after the decline of feudalism, that a nation's economy could be strengthened by extracting raw materials from conies to make finished products, exporting those products to accumulating gold and silver
Mercantilism
Where and When did the Industrial Revolution first occur?
Great Britain in 1750s
A failed rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company in India
Sepoy Rebellion
True or false: Goods decreased in value the further they traveled along with Silk Roads
A system of economic and political organization in which one person would pledge to support another person
Feudalism
A system of forced labor imposed on indigenous workers by Spanish colonists
Encomienda
The manufacturing of large quantities of standardized products, often using assembly lines or automation technology
Mass Production
Treaty that ended the first Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers.
Treaty of Nanjing
This plague spread along the Silk Roads
The Black Death or Bubonic Plague
Why is the "middle ages" referred to as the "middle ages" ?
because historians viewed it as a less important time period between the fall of Rome and the Age of Exploration
What is a business owned by its shareholders, who can buy and sell shares freely?
Give an example:
Joint-Stock Companty
ex.) British East India Company
Dutch East India Company
Give two reasons why the Industrial Revolution began where it did, when it did:
1) Great Britain's geography
2) The Agricultural Revolution and Urbanization
3) New Technology in Great Britain
4) Colonization
Name 2 techniques used by political cartoonists
- Irony (going against expectations)
- Symbolism (figuratively using imagery)
- Exaggeration (making something bigger or more important)
- Analogy (comparison of unlike things)