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| 4446218012 | sinification in Japan | Tang dynasty, voluntarily Buddhism Confucianism Heian Era: ultra-civilized courts Lady Murasaki - The Tale of the Genji Shogun - too much courtly attentions, becomes a feudal society, samurais | 0 | |
| 4446233517 | Vietnam sinification | Resistance!!! women do not accept Confucian, Chinese get new rice that ripens more quickly - population rise | 1 | |
| 4446263716 | Abbasids | Muslim Golden Age, Baghdad cultural borrowing: Persian arts and government and language (1001 Arabian Nights), Turkish officials and Mamluks (soldiers) | 2 | |
| 4446274268 | Umayyad | Spanish caliphate | 3 | |
| 4446241753 | Monguls | pastoralists with horses 1200s-1400s Genghis Khan - end Song dynasty, Beijing is capital West to Persia Kublai Khan - Yuan dynasty | 4 | |
| 4446257204 | Pax Mongolica | brutal, but no bandits opposition = wiped off of map Baghdad resists: 200,000 killed, Abbasid Empire falls, Central Asia lost 3/4 of its population, China's population fell by half in Yuan dynasty freedom of religion | 5 | |
| 4446283493 | Mongol Expansion | divided into khanites Mamluk fighters in Egypt stop their advance Russia: the Golden Horde, tribute arrangement for 200 yrs until Ivan the Great revolted in 1480 | 6 | |
| 4446299192 | Sudanic States | AFRICA: SW of Sahara in Ghana, Songhay, and Mali GOLD, SALT, ANIMAL SKINS via camel caravans GAO TIMBUKTU | 7 | |
| 4446652042 | ETHIOPIA | Christianity Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, only Eth stays Christian King LALIBELA had Churches carved into rock: unshakable faith Coffee | 8 | |
| 4446666769 | Aztec agriculture | CHINAMPAS field system to feed large population of Tenochtitlan floating "islands" of crops in Lake Texcoco connected by canals, workers wove baskets, piled on mud, planted maize in soil, roots grew into water | 9 | |
| 4446702063 | Best cities of post-classical era? | Chinese!!! Chang'an: Tang capital, 2 million, suburbs for city workers, gov zone, elaborate gardens, commercial area Hangzhou: 1.5 million, theaters, parks, museums, Marco Polo admiration | 10 | |
| 4446726284 | mita system | Incan forced labor system, utilized by Europeans | 11 | |
| 4446733800 | Where did slaves come from? | Africa, and Slavic Europe | 12 | |
| 4446737733 | Most and least social mobility | most: Persian and Byzantine opportunities to rise through military ranks or merchant class, Indian caste system least mobile | 13 | |
| 4446746071 | exceptions to patriarchy | Vietnamese and Mongol women refuse to bind feet, Vietnamese women lead revolts, Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty | 14 | |
| 4446777531 | Chinese exploration | Zheng He, fleet of ships in Indian Ocean as show of might in early 1400s, bigger ships than Europeans, 28 yrs of travels: animals, plants, people Ming court -> isolationism: best = China, nothing to gain, very expensive | 15 | |
| 4446797911 | Portuguese Exploration | 1488 Cape of Good Hope 1498 Vasco de Gama reaches India | 16 | |
| 4446816828 | Columbian Exchange | Old: horses, chickens, cows, sugar, bananas, wheat, rice, smallpox New: potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, corn, cocoa, chili peppers, peppers create unprecedented population growth, | 17 | |
| 4446874793 | British East India Company | private global British company made and enforced its own laws ship schedules and cargoes, commerce agreements with rulers across the world | 18 | |
| 4446882634 | continuities in era of exploration | Islam still spreads: SE ASIA, Philippines Buddhism: SE Asia into Central Asia Hinduism going strong Indian Ocean Trade between East Africa, South Asia, SE Asia and East Asia continued, Europeans had to cooperate since they couldn't dominate this longlasting tradition Agriculture: subsistence farming, new crops -> commercial farming, corn in China!! SE Africa Bantu peoples built city complex Great Zimbabwe | 19 | |
| 4446921343 | THE POLITICAL ELITES ACROSS THE WORLD C. 1700 | - Manchus overrun Ming in China, Manchuria, est Qing dynasty, still a minority - Creoles in Latin America: children of Peninsulares, distinction faded with time - skin color - social class litmus test - new economic elite in Europe: entreprenuers get status and wealth (Medicis!!), except China | 20 | |
| 4446956182 | Christianity + native religions in Americas | voodoo in Caribbean votive candles and offerings to saints in Mexico | 21 | |
| 4446970157 | Jesuits | response to Protestant Reformation successfully keep Catholicism/ spread Catholicism in Poland and New World; Army of the Pope, in China in Ming and Qing dynasties: appointed Jesuit diplomats to Bureau of Astronomy because they impressed the Chinese with European astronomy leadership in technology shifting to West | 22 | |
| 4447004992 | African Slavery | - Americas: Portuguese - Indian Ocean and Mediterranean: North African Muslim slave traders life expectancy on plantation = 3 years; patriarchy in Africa upset because so many men were taken Encomienda and Mita systems - native population | 23 | |
| 4447032729 | Qing government | concerned with stronger Russia and Mongols, late 1600s into 17002: campaigns to add land to empire and separate them from Russia, Taiwan did not force Chinese culture, local rulers continue under Qing policies with local faiths and customs, however they did limit pastoral herders, they allowed camel Silk Road to wither because they preferred ocean trade | 24 | |
| 4447050758 | Russia | IVAN THE GREAT got rid of Mongols in late 1400s expansion through conquest E into SIberia then S and W IVAN THE TERRIBLE late 1500s began 100 yr conquest of Siberia PETER THE GREAT late 1600s and CATHERINE THE GREAT 1700s added areas around Black and Caspian seas, flooded with Russian migrants Catherine attracted immigrants from Cetnral Europe by offering free land, similar to 1800s insisted on farming over pastoralism (like Qing!!) forced labor onto peasants for public works likeroads (like Latin America, and China) religious toleration Serfdom: ended in Europe in 1400s, no constitution or Parliament with power | 25 | |
| 4447138639 | The Ottoman Revolution | North Africa into Southwest Asia, north into Turkey took Constantinople in 1453 -> Istanbul encompassed Jewish, Muslim and Christian; European, Asian, and African Soleyman the Magnificent DEVSHIRME: Did not require conversion, but forced Christians of lower Balkans to hand over sons to become janisseries, soldiers in Turkish army initially they were a strictly disciplined elite group, but by 1608 they were corrupt and hereditary and an impediment to change families willingly handed over sons in hope of upward mobility with loyalty and ability failed to conquer Vienna in early 1500s and late 1600s European fear of Muslim conquerors: would E trade be cut off? would Christianity die? Tanzimat Reforms late 1800s post Crimean War: "reorganization" , constitution, banking system, railroad, modernization of the army After 40 yrs sultan cancelled it and dissolved the legislature, "Young Turks" WWI = collapse | 26 | |
| 4447189887 | Tokugawa Japan | Europeans take advantage of feudal system and weak central government ~mid 1500s, Portugal, then Spain and Dutch send merchants and missionaries and exchange silver for Japanese manufactured goods First they welcome: guns, shipbuilding technology, little conversion (except Jesuits in Nagasaki) early 1600s: Tokugawa family unite Japan through military conquest SHOGUN = supreme military commander ruled until mid-1800s, ran Europeans out of Japan brutally persecute Christians ONLY ONE DUTCH SHIP allowed in one port once a year, until Americans force open ports at Edo by Commodore Perry | 27 | |
| 4447224969 | Mughal India | claim to be Kubla Khan's descendents most of India united Akbar: religious toleration to 75% Hindu population, after he dies they are persecuted again British reduce Mughal leaders to ceremonial leaders beginning in 1750 Taj Mahal | 28 | |
| 4447324340 | Inca socialism | all food, land, manufactured goods belonged to government, portion donated for redistribution quipu: knotted strings for record keeping | 29 | |
| 4447363337 | steam engine and cotton gin | 1760s, made water power obsolete made machine-made clothing affordable to everyone in European society US: Steam boat, end of sail boat Br: steam-powered locomotive: TRAIN, end of the horse | 30 | |
| 4447422735 | John Harrison | marine chronometer, government prize | 31 | |
| 4447952973 | U.S. Steel Corporation | Carnegie, first billion dollar co | 32 | |
| 4447954757 | Japan | US shows off force by opening japan Japan doesn't resists, embraces industrialization silk facotires gov. build factories, sell them to co. but remain intimately involved in business decisions | 33 | |
| 4447988658 | Russia 1800s | little industrialization government focuses on supporting the elite freed serfs in 1860s sought investment, Trans-Siberian Railway (longest RR) mostly 1400s economy: peasants grow wheat and potatoes for export | 34 | |
| 4448004671 | Latin America 1800s | Eur. investment for industry remained crop focused with peasant labor coffee, bananas, beef sugar. copper exported by MX millions of Europeans immigrated to Latin America (Argentina!!) for economic opportunity Japanese poured into Western Coast of South America (Peru!!) mostly as laborors | 35 | |
| 4448010457 | India 1800s | English RAJ c. 1750 -c. 1900 cotton for English mills India started to manufacture cotton industrial growth really in late 1900s | 36 | |
| 4448025856 | CHINA 1800s | refuses to industrialize, sticks to peasant labor and handmade exports US, Russia, and Japan force exclusive trade regions on weak government (spheres of influence) Eventually, U.S. open door policy is accepted | 37 | |
| 4448035673 | effects on japanese society of industrialization | young rural girls sent to urban factories to work unhealthy working conditions and threats from male supervisors gave rise to songs and poems by factory girls | 38 | |
| 4448160264 | Health progress | sterilization of medical instruments, smallpox and rabies vaccines, anesthesia, aspirin, sanitation systems | 39 | |
| 4448170194 | Why imperial? | Technology, nationalism (competition, new nations want to assert themselves), economics (raw materials, world markets and multinational corporations put pressure on gov to help them claim their share of global economy), White Man's Burden to little brown brothers to deliver technology, medicine, and Christianity | 40 | |
| 4448190269 | AFRICAN IMPERIALISM | British explorers clash with Dutch Boers, , France in Algeria and NW Africa, Belgium began scramble for Africa in 1880s when it seized the Congo, Berlin Conference of 1884, only Libya and Ethiopia were not colonized | 41 | |
| 4448202653 | ASIAN AND PACIFIC IMPERIALISM | Canada, and South Asia after 7 Years War, EIC to Br by 1850s | 42 | |
| 4448220054 | Meiji Restoration | Japanese gov transformed in 1860s, aggressive imperialism in Pacific, Western style army , representative of mythical past for modernizers to build nation state, mandatory military, mandatory male and female public ed for four years funded by property tax, functioning infrastructure national currency dark side: colonizing Russo-Japanese War for territory in Manchuria and Korea | 43 | |
| 4448296062 | Cecil Rhodes | Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe, gold ad diamonds | 44 | |
| 4448303010 | white dominions, settler colonies | majority through disease ad conquest, minority | 45 | |
| 4448313823 | Boer War | British fought Boer and Zulus | 46 | |
| 4448325717 | Anti Imperialist rebellion | Taiping and Boxer REbellion Sepoy army, employed by EIC, rebelled but crushed, ending Mughal dynasty, the EIC, and beginning the Raj vs. King of Siam invited British to help Westernize his country | 47 | |
| 4448375396 | Latin American Revolutions | Simon Bolivar, a Creole elite no middle class elite still in power after war, like US | 48 | |
| 4448413005 | Asian and African nationalism | English stay in Egypt, Suez Canal Indian Nationalist Congress, Muslim League | 49 | |
| 4448466610 | Migration Pushes | famine, employment, too populated, political unrest religious unrest Pulls: jobs, freedom, stability, urbanization to cities with others of same background generous land policies (US, Canada, Russia) abolition of slavery indentured servants from East and South Asia economic opportunity gold rushes Effects Africa: men go to work on commercial farms so women take on traditionally male roles as traders, crops, and mining nativism | 50 | |
| 4448516733 | Albert Einstein | overturned Newton's theory of ordered universe, space and time vary based on point of view of observor; there are no absolutes!! WWI made ordered universe make no sense and this fit right in! Moral relativism, up to INDIVIDUAL point of view | 51 |
