Lecture Notes Review

Explorers

Bartholomew Diaz: First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.

Columbus: Obtained permission from King Ferdinand to find a route to Asia.

Unit 7

Russian Revolution:Lenin took power from Tsar Nicholas.

Reasons: Poverty and significant deaths in World War I.

Implemented the Five-Year Plan and established the USSR.

Song Dynasty

Filial Piety: Respect for elders and ancestors.

Scholar Gentry: Influential class of scholar-officials.

Grand Canal: Major infrastructure project for transportation.

Bureaucracy: Organized system where people follow rules to manage tasks.

Aristocracy: Rule by nobles or wealthy individuals.

Environmental Concerns

10. 3 - Environment dies bc of globalizationConcerns about environmental degradation due to globalization (DEAR 2045).

Sufism

Muslim missionaries spreading Islam through Sufi practices.

Decolonization (8.6)

All caused by decolonization.Balfour Declaration: Allowed Jewish migration.

Khmer Rouge: Spread communism.

Partition of India: Division of India.

Colonized immigrants moved to colonizer countries due to cultural/economic connections.

Abdel Nasser: Nationalized the Suez Canal.

Indira Gandhi: Nehru's daughter, implemented Five-Year socialist economic plans and adopted the Green Revolution.

Ming Dynasty

Restoration of traditional Chinese traditions (Neoconfucianism).

Zheng He: Famous admiral and explorer.

High Taxes and Poor Economy: Economic challenges.

Peasant Rebellions: Due to high taxes.

Wars and Luxury Spending: Factors contributing to the dynasty's decline.

Manchu Invasion: Led to the Qing Dynasty.

New Deal vs. Marshall Plan

New Deal (1932):FDR's response to the Great Depression.

Increased government intervention in the economy.

Implemented welfare and social security programs.

Government spending on infrastructure.

Marshall Plan:Post-World War II economic plan.

Aimed to rebuild Western Europe to prevent the spread of communism.

James Watt/Henry Ford

James Watt: Credited with making a useful version of the steam engine.

Henry Ford: Credited with the creation of the assembly line and interchangeable parts.

Yalta Conference

Stalin, Churchill, and FDR laid down the framework for the post-World War II world.

Millet System

Ottoman Empire's way of managing a multiethnic empire.

Organized population based on religious communities.

Mussolini

Leader of Italy during World War II.

Fascism.

Contras

Proxy war involving Sandinistas and Contras.

Reagan administration scandal.

Dr. Living Stone

Civilizing mission.

English doctor providing medical care in Africa.

Maxim Gun

Machine gun used in the Boer Wars.

Sepoy Rebellion

British East India Company's mismanagement and disrespect towards natives.

Sepoys: Indian soldiers employed by the British.

British used packages greased with pig and beef fat, which was against Hinduism.

Rebellion led to the British government taking direct control of India from the East India Company.

Beginnings of Indian nationalism.

Tanzimat Reforms

Ottoman Empire's efforts to modernize to deal with Europe.

Alhambra Decree

Ruler of the Ottoman Empire brought Jews over to the empire after the Reconquista.