4526951578 | Mongolian empire | Largest empire of all time | 0 | |
4526951579 | Yurts | Tents used by nomadic Turks | 1 | |
4526951580 | Sultans | "Chieftain" | 2 | |
4526951581 | Khubilai Khan | Marco Polo spent almost 20 years in the court of | 3 | |
4526951582 | Chinggis Khan | Did not establish a centralized government in lands he conquered | 4 | |
4526951583 | Osman | Founder of the ottoman turks | 5 | |
4526963468 | formed new miltary units with no tribal affiliations | In an effort to strengthen the Mongol fighting forces, Chinggis Khan | 6 | |
4527011236 | the empire still grew and eventually encompassed most of inhabitable Eurasia | After Chinggis Khan | 7 | |
4527025240 | Golden Horde | Russia was dominated from the 13th through the 15th centuries by the | 8 | |
4527058817 | Griots | singers and storytellers | 9 | |
4527059606 | Bantu Migrated | into the rainforest around the Congo River | 10 | |
4527599438 | Bananas | The introduction of a new food crop about 400 C.E. encouraged a fresh migratory surge in Africa. What was the crop? | 11 | |
4527606119 | Iron | By the middle of the first millennium B.C.E., the Bantu had mastered ________ metallurgy. | 12 | |
4527608900 | the male heads of families | A Bantu villiage ruling council was made up of | 13 | |
4527613552 | Ghana | The most powerful state in west Africa at the time of the arrival of Islam was | 14 | |
4527643628 | With the increased volume of trans-Saharan trade in the Islamic period, new cultural influences began to spread in Western Africa. | Link between trans-Saharan trade and formation of west African Islamic states | 15 | |
4527657348 | Islam | By the 10 century C.E., the kings of Ghana had coverted to | 16 | |
4527657349 | Holy Roman Empire | a christian revival of the earlier Roman Empire | 17 | |
4527724044 | the Norman kings of England ruling over a much more tightly centralized realm than those of France | the English Political Structure had... | 18 | |
4527751655 | William of Normandy | introduced Norman principles of government and land tenure to England | 19 | |
4527763433 | city-states competing for power and position | The Italian Political Structure was composed of... | 20 | |
4527783632 | Hanseatic League | well developed trade-network along the Baltic and North Seas | 21 | |
4527808526 | Aristotle created | "Arabic" numerals, paper production | 22 | |
4527826884 | Dominicans and Franciscans | worked zealously to combat heterodox movements and to persuade heretics to return to the Roman Catholic church | 23 | |
4527909876 | Pope Urban II | launched crusades in 1095 | 24 | |
4527914426 | Crusades | "Holy War" | 25 | |
4527933361 | Ibn Batuta | visits to Asia by Marco Polo and __ __ (an Arab Muslim) made westerners (Europeans) a lot more interested in visiting China and Asia | 26 | |
4527939196 | Silk Road | Silk traded from China to Rome, as well as cultural & religion spread | 27 | |
4527945297 | Indian Ocean Lanes | Spread Islam, traded Spices, slaves, silk, ivory, and gold. Connected Europe, Africa, and China | 28 | |
4527960374 | Routes safer, large spread of products, ideas, and culture. Bubonic Plague spread. | Importance of Mongol Control for Trade | 29 | |
4527997156 | Muslims | Who introduced cotton to west Africa | 30 | |
4528000099 | Bubonic Plague | Broke out in China, resulted in a population decrease of about 20 million | 31 | |
4528007004 | Ming Dynasty | founded in 1386 by hongwu, philosophy was to return to the model of traditional Chinese dynasties | 32 | |
4528014292 | Reconquista | the Spanish Catholic attempt to win Spain from Islamic control | 33 | |
4528021872 | Renaissance Thought | appreciation for the art and thought of the middle ages | 34 | |
4528028002 | Humanism | humanists believed people could lead morally virtuous lives while participating in the world | 35 | |
4528035197 | Reasons for exploration | Gold, God, Glory, Trade Routes | 36 | |
4528041281 | Portugal | Which nations were involved in exploration | 37 | |
4528042650 | Prince Henry | Portuguese "leader of exploration" who promoted voyages of exploration in Africa, specifically in gold and slave trade | 38 | |
4528048993 | Vasco de Gama | A Portuguese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 39 | |
4528054779 | Magellan | First to Circumnavigate the world | 40 | |
4528057743 | Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) discovered America | 41 | |
4528063720 | The Netherlands | Most prosperous 17th century nation | 42 | |
4537358094 | Colombian Exchange | a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, food items, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. | 43 | |
4537366058 | Martin Luther | A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church. | 44 | |
4537394851 | 95 thesis | statements of belief attacking the church practices | 45 | |
4537400056 | Johannes Gutenberg | inventor of printing press | 46 | |
4537418455 | John Calvin | started calvinism | 47 | |
4537419981 | English reformation | King Henry VIII broke from the Church, creating a "Protestant" Church of England | 48 | |
4537422749 | Anglicans | started by Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife but the Catholic Church banned divorce, so he started the Anglican Church and named himself the Supreme Head of the Anglican Church | 49 | |
4537424769 | Council of Trent | the council that helped define and advance the catholic reformation | 50 | |
4537426458 | Charles V | leader who tried, but failed, to centralize authority in the holy roman empire | 51 | |
4537430627 | Glorious Revolution | parliament disposed of King James II and invited his daughter, Mary to assume the throne | 52 | |
4537432723 | Louis XIV | The sun king, He ruled from 1643-1715, the longest reign in French history. He constructed Versailles, believed in divine right of kings, engaged in many wars, and established absolutism in France. | 53 | |
4537435038 | Mestizo | mixed European & native | 54 | |
4537456164 | Encomiendas | system that gave Spanish settlers the right to compel the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the mines or fields | 55 | |
4537459601 | indentured servants | 56 | ||
4537462442 | conquistadores | early 16th century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru | 57 | |
4537465044 | Zambos | People of mixed Native American and African descent | 58 | |
4537479524 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class | 59 | |
4537481572 | Mulattoes | people of african and European descent | 60 | |
4537495092 | Treaty of Tordesillas | signed in 1494 between Castile and Portugal; clarified spheres of influence and rights of possession in the New World; reserved Brazil and all newly discovered lands east of Brazil for Portugal; granted all new lands west of Brazil to Spain | 61 | |
4537499376 | Declaration of the rights of woman | written by Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. | 62 | |
4537516350 | Second treatise of civil government | written by John Locke discusses men's move from a state of nature characterized by perfect freedom and governed by reason to a civil government in which the authority is vested in a legislative and executive power. | 63 | |
4537522957 | social contract | Written by Jean: addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. | 64 | |
4537528357 | John Locke | Argued that rulers derive power from consent of ruled. Individuals retain personal rights and give political rights to rulers. | 65 | |
4537531072 | Adam Smith | Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy | 66 | |
4537543988 | Jean-Jacques Roussaeu | Argued for equality of all individuals, regardless of class, before the law. | 67 | |
4537550351 | Baron de Montesquieu | a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher | 68 | |
4537555248 | Napoleon's code | established patriarchal authority and became model for many civil codes. More female equality than before. | 69 | |
4537559291 | Louverture | leader of the Haitian Revolution. | 70 | |
4539317721 | Simon Bolivar | assembled an army that surprised and crushed the Spanish army in Columbia; Later, he campaigned in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru, coordinating his efforts with other creole leaders such as Bernardo O'Higgins | 71 | |
4539328502 | Jose de San Martin | Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. | 72 | |
4539334253 | Theodore Herzl | Jewish journalist, wrote Judenstaat, which argued that the the only way to stop persecution was a mass migration of the Jews to their own land | 73 | |
4539356408 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | American Feminist who organized a conference of feminists who met at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. | 74 | |
4539365212 | Industrialization | Coal and steam replace wind, water, human and animal labor. Factories over cottage industries. Rural agriculture declines and urban manufacturing increases. Trains, automobiles replace animals and watercraft | 75 | |
4539373701 | Factory System | Machines too large and expensive for home use. Large buildings could house specialized laborer a. Urbanization guarantees supply of cheap unskilled labor. | 76 | |
4539383133 | Henry Bessemer | Refined blast furnace makes production of steel faster and cheaper. | 77 | |
4539384751 | Eli Whitney | interchangeable parts | 78 | |
4539386628 | Communist Manifesto | Marx and Engles argued for an overthrow of capitalists in favor of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" | 79 | |
4539394368 | Karl Marx | Revolutionary Socialist | 80 | |
4539398452 | Ottoman decline | the state could no longer ward off European economic penetration or prevent territorial losses | 81 | |
4539406594 | Opium War | Treaty of janking ended war, weakened economy | 82 | |
4539457009 | Meiji reforms | feudal system was abolished, and Western ideas and business contacts gained wide acceptance. | 83 | |
4539478138 | Crimean War | Showed that Russia was not able to compete with industrialized Western Europe. | 84 | |
4539491354 | Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fist | group of chinese who lead rebellion against japanese and western influences | 85 | |
4539509439 | Boxer Rebellion | anti-foreign trade uprising killed foreigners and Chinese Christians, foreign embassies | 86 | |
4539509440 | Scramble for Africa | motivation gold and diamonds | 87 | |
4539554608 | European reason for wwi | Alliances nationalism industrialization | 88 | |
4539555723 | USA reasons for wwi | sinking of the Lusitania German blockade of British overseas trade Zimmerman telegram | 89 | |
4539558018 | Total War | all resources put into war | 90 | |
4539565044 | Self Determination | people of the same ethnicity form a nation and they would have their own government | 91 | |
4539572251 | Triple Alliance | Germany Austria-Hungary Italians | 92 | |
4539577785 | Triple Entente | Russia France UK | 93 | |
4539582292 | Change of status of women | working in factories, able to vote | 94 | |
4539591594 | Wilson's 14 points | Wished to create League of nations which was not joined by US because senate did not ratify it. | 95 | |
4539605070 | Lost generation | the generation of people who went to war between ages of 18-30s (coined by gertrude stein) | 96 | |
4539606949 | Einstein | Theory of special relativity | 97 | |
4539619315 | Keynes | encourages investment | 98 | |
4539628490 | Russian civil war | Execution of Tsar. Whites are defeated by Red Army in 1920. "Reds" were Lenin and the Bolsheviks while the "Whites" were opposed to him | 99 | |
4539628814 | Stalin | leader of soviet union (socialist) | 100 | |
4539642014 | Hitler | Socialist leader of Germany | 101 | |
4539647824 | Mussolini | leader of fascist party | 102 | |
4539650320 | Nuremberg Laws | Prevents jews from going to school, owning businesses, marrying non-jews | 103 | |
4539659362 | Kristallnacht | nazis torched synagogues, vandalized jewish homes, schools, and businesses | 104 | |
4539669014 | Indian National Congress | organization that supported & helped try to bring self-rule to India | 105 | |
4539677152 | Woodrow Wilson | Who influences the league of nations? | 106 | |
4539678762 | Pakistan | "land of the pure" | 107 | |
4539680145 | Ghandis methods | boycott passive resistance | 108 | |
4539683527 | India Act | gave india a self-governing state still under the supervision of Britain | 109 | |
4539686346 | Muhammad | headed the movement to create Pakistan or "Land of the pure" | 110 | |
4539688892 | Mao Zedong | Leader of Chinese Communist Party and headed the Long March, rose to power after Jiang Jiehshi. | 111 | |
4539691871 | Northern Expedition | Jiang Jieshis political/ military campaign through northwestern China to gain power and support in 1927 | 112 | |
4539695262 | Maoism | communist way of thinking, put the peasants in power | 113 | |
4539698923 | Mukden Incident | When the Japanese staged Chinese bombings of their railroads as a pretext of Japanese invasion in NE China | 114 | |
4539706183 | Pan-Africansim | ideology that supports the unity of Africans worldwide | 115 | |
4539708011 | Marcus Garvey | Jamaican political leader and journalist | 116 | |
4539709428 | Big Stick | US policy that enabled the US to assert domination when considered necessary (by US) | 117 | |
4539710862 | Dollar Diplomacy | guaranteed loans made to foreign countries for Latin America and East Africa | 118 | |
4539713085 | Good Neighbor Policy | foreign policy Franklin Roosevelt made for the administration of the US over Latin America | 119 | |
4539770683 | Cause of wwii | Germany invades Poland | 120 | |
4539791907 | Munich Conference | Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany. Hitler promises to halt expansionist efforts. British Prime Minister promises "Peace for our time" Hitler signs secret Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression | 121 | |
4539794678 | Blitzkrieg | "lightning war" strategy used by Germany. Air forces soften up target, armored divisions rush in. | 122 | |
4539802380 | Battle of Britain | Air warfare conducted by Germany. Royal air Force prevents Germans from invading. | 123 | |
4539808378 | Normandy Invasion | largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy "D-Day" | 124 | |
4539821717 | Atomic Bombs | US dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 125 | |
4539827152 | Berlin Airlift | 11 months of air shipments to Berlin, beginning June 1948. Cold War did not go "hot" Soviets lifts blockade in summer 1949 | 126 | |
4539833933 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1949. Collective defense | 127 | |
4539836363 | Warsaw Pact | 1955 countermeasure consisting of seven communist European nations. | 128 | |
4539838371 | Proxy Wars | a conflict between two nations where neither country directly engages the other. | 129 |
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