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African Gold-Salt Trade

African Gold-Salt Trade. Trade carried across the Sahara Desert by merchant caravans Traded salt to West Africa for Gold. Alliance System. Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy Triple Entente: Britain, France & Russia

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African Gold-Salt Trade

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  1. African Gold-Salt Trade • Trade carried across the Sahara Desert by merchant caravans • Traded salt to West Africa for Gold

  2. Alliance System • Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy • Triple Entente: Britain, France & Russia • Made World War I grow from a regional conflict to a world wide event

  3. Atlantic Slave Trade • Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific conditions to labor in the America’s in mines and plantations

  4. Bolsheviks • Party of Lenin that won the support of the people promising “Peace, Bread and Land” • Lead to the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia

  5. Cold War • Conflict between the America and Soviet Union • There was never open fighting between each country • Soviet Union: Communist

  6. Columbian Exchange • Exchange of products and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans

  7. Commercial Revolution • The transition from the local economies of the Middle Ages to an economy based on overseas trade and The extension of banking and credit and mercantilist polices

  8. Crusades • A war requested by the Pope for Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims • Lead to a great increase in trade between Europe and the Middle East

  9. English Civil War • A war between English Parliament and Charles I, which established Parliament’s supremacy over the monarchy

  10. Enlightenment • Movement that applied reason and scientific laws to understand nature and society • Enlightenment thinkers questioned hereditary privilege and absolutism

  11. European Imperialism • The political and economic control by European powers of areas in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific

  12. Fourteen Points • Announced by President Wilson, which included creating new nation-states in Easter Europe and a League of Nation

  13. French Revolution • Revolution that overthrew the French monarchy, ended hereditary privilege, and made France more democratic

  14. Glorious Revolution • A revolution in Britain in which James II was overthrown and the new king and queen agreed to the Bill of Rights of 1689, granting their subjects certain rights

  15. Great Schism • Split that occurred in the Catholic Church with two Popes, one in Avignon and the other in Rome • The Schism caused many to questions the Churches authority

  16. Holocaust • The genocide of Jews and other minorities during World War II by the Nazis in concentrations camps

  17. Hundred Years War • War between England and France over succession to the French Throne • It strengthened royal power and brought an end to Feudalism

  18. Industrial Revolution • Began in England • Changed the way good were made, moving production from the home to factories and from hand made to factory made

  19. Militarism • The adaptation by a civilization of military values and goals and become over reliant on military leaders • Contributed to the outbreak of World War I

  20. Napoleonic War • Wars between Napoleon and the rest of Europewhich spread the ideas of the French Revolution

  21. Neolithic Revolution • Around 8,000 B.C. • The change that occurred when people learned how to plant and grow crops, and domesticate animals.

  22. October Revolution 1917 • The Bolsheviks seized power by force in a second revolution in 1917 • Once in power, they changed Russia to a Communist Nation

  23. Protestant Reformation • Movement begun in Germany by Martin Luther in 1517 in which many Christians left the Catholic Church for Protestant Churches

  24. Renaissance • A rebirth of European Cultures that began in the Italian City-States with a spirit of inquiry, a rediscovery of classical learning and improvements in painting and architecture

  25. Scientific Revolution • Rejected traditional Church teachings • Introduced scientific method in which people observed nature and test hypotheses

  26. September 11, 2001 • Al-Qaeda terrorists living in the U.S. hijacked several commercial airliners and crashed them into the Pentagon and World Trade Towers

  27. Pearl Harbor • December 7, 1941 • A surprise attack by the Japanese navy on the U.S Fleet at Pearl Harbor which brought the United States in World War II

  28. Silk Road • Trade route that connected China and Europe form the time of the Roman Empire onwards • China exported silk, porcelain and tea

  29. Tiananmen Square • Chinese students were fired on by tanks while leading peaceful demonstrations for greater personal freedom and democracy

  30. Treaty of Versailles • Treaty between Allied Powers and Germany ending World War I • Germany took sole blame for starting the war and was forced to repay all damages

  31. Vietnam War • War between Communist North Vietnam and U.S. supported South Vietnam • Began when the Viet Cong launched guerilla warfare against South Vietnam

  32. World War I • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand set off a chain reaction that involved most nations of Europe and later the United States

  33. World War II • The most destructive conflict in history in which an estimated 70 million were killed • Hitler started this war by invading Poland in 1939

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