Unit 7- Global Humanities

12.5 million

the amount of people captured in the transatlantic slave trade

American Revolution

1. Tax protests in some British colonies

2. Crackdown → wider uprising

3. France and Spain join the war to weaken the British Empire

Bande Mataram

patriotic chant that means ‘Hail Mother’

British East India Company

• private ownership set up by British government

• monopoly on British trade in Asia

• military power (most were South Asian)

• traded silk and spices

• government gave company special status

Calcutta (or Kolkata)

• 1609: British trading post

• 1773: capital of all British India

• 1905: center of Swadeshi movement

First World War (or World War I)

• started in June 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated

• Germany declared war on France and Russia

• Britain declared war on Germany to protect Belgium (war officially starts in August)

• trench warfare

What were tools used in this war?

submarines, airplanes, tanks, chemical weapons, machine guns

French Revolution

• starts 6 years after peace treaty of American Revolution

• begins by accident due to financial conflict

• aftershock of American Revolution

Haitian Revolution

• slaves rebelled by setting plantations on fire

• leader: Toussaint Louverture (allied with France)

• Haiti declared freedom in 1804

Industrial Revolution

period during the 1700s and 1800s where new technologies became widespread (mostly in factories)

Middle Passage

slaves journey on the sea

Mughal Empire

• empire in South Asia, established by Babur

• Islamic minority in power

• diverse/tolerant

• success in trade/agriculture

• known for art/architecture

• Taj Mahal is Mughal monument to undying love

Nationalism

1. nations exist (because they have their own unique cultures)

2. Nations deserve power (over themselves and maybe others)

New Imperialism

• new phase of colonialism (1870-1914)

• new empires

• new science and technology

• 3x faster conquest

• nationalist and racist ideology

novel

story that lasts the whole book with 1 set of characters

purdah

a curtain or veil, used to screen women from male view

Rabindranath Tagore

• author of The Home and the World

• born in 1861 in Calcutta

• elite Bengali educated in England

• poet, playwright, philosopher

• Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)

Suffrage movement

• women demanding the right to vote

• international movement (protests, sometimes radical)

Swadeshi movement

• 3 parts, starting in 1905

• boycotting British products

• promoting local manufacturing

• celebrating Bengal’s and India’s culture

Triangular Trade

• good are brought to Africa in exchange for slaves (raw materials, manufactured goods, slaves)

• slavery in imperial trade networks

• between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

zamindars

• hereditary plantation estates

• tenant farmers cultivate crops

• landlords (zamindars) send rent as taxes to the empire

zenana

part of a Hindu or Muslim house that is reserved for the women of the household