World History

• rediscovery of classical knowledge and the arts
• humanism

• splitting of the Church

• Enhance centralization in the Chinese way

• Peak of Chinese influence in Japan

• Decline of Buddhism - Rise of Confucianism
• Iron based industry
• Gunpowder

• Description of the Heian court

• De-mongolization
• Expansion of trade (Zheng He)

• Shogun
• started the unification of Japan

• daimyo
• finished the unification of Japan

• Bakufu (military government)

• British victory over China
• British get Hong Kong + monopoly over Chinese trade

• greatest civil war in history
• eventually supressed

• British victory again

• revolutionary of the Xinhai Revolution
• founder of the Republic of China

• modernization of technology and industry

• Imperial victory over the Shogunate
• modernization of Japan

• transition from feudalism to modernity
• first half of the Japanese Empire

• established Japan as a military power

• against Christians and foreigners

• Japanese victory
• Japanese annexation of Korea

• ended the empire
• installed a republic

Siddhaartha Gautama

• companies expand their territories

Ur Uruk Lagash Lippur Eridu

Built by Ashurbanipal

Alfonso of Castile and El Cid

by Ignatius Loyola

• Sought to reconciliate the Catholic and Protestant Churches. Failed.

• in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip

• Between Russia and Sweden
• Russian victory

• abolsihed serfdom
• loosened restrictions on social freedom
• encouraged local self-government

• continued reforms but came short of democracy

• protesters killed

• between the Boolsheviks and the Impereialists

• RSFSR withdraws from the war

• USSR
• Tsar is executed

Charles Martel defeats the Umayyads

• cuius regio eius religio

• protects Huguenots

• between Protestants and Catholics

• protects Huguenots but doesn't allow them to arm

• Protestant princes allowed to continue religious practices.

• Habsburg supremacy curtailed

• Rise of France and the Bourbon dynasty

• Rise of the Swedish Empire

• Decline of feudalism

• Decentralization of the Holy Roman Empire

• Substantial decline in the power and influence of the Catholic Church

• Abolition of the French monarchy

• Establishment of a secular and democratic republic that became increasingly authoritarian and militaristic

• Radical social change based on liberalism and other Enlightenment principles

• Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

• Armed conflicts with other European countries.

• by Coup d'Etat

• German victory
• establishment of the German Empire
• fall of the French Empire

Triple Alliance: Germany - Austria - Italy
Triple Entente: UK - France - Russia

• harsh on Germany

• unpopular

• claimed that power came not from God, but from the people

• social contract (government - citizen)

under Menes

by Ahmose

Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamen, Ramses the Great

Due to the southern spread of the Saharan Desert

• Calpulli clans
• Ruled through a system of tribute