Keywords
by Week
(in progress)
| 01.
conjuncture, "polycentric world system," "biological old regime," Black
Death, tribute system, kowtow, Swahili, Malacca |
| 02. Ming dynasty, Emperor Yongle, Zheng He, Calicut |
| 03.Qur’an, hajj, Mecca, Vasco da Gama (1469-1524), Goa, Ottoman Empire (1289-1923), Istanbul, Sultan Süleyman (r. 1520-1566), Safavid Empire (1501-1722), Shah Ismail (r. 1501-1514), Mughal Empire (1523-1858), Akbar (r. 1556-1605), cami (mosque), medrese, shari’a, Sunni, Shiism |
| 04. Ivan III (r. 1462-1505), Ivan IV (r. 1533-1584), Peter I (r. 1682-1725), Catherine II (r. 1762-1795), Romanovs, tsar (csar), cossack, serf, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Caucasus, Siberia |
| 05. Hernén Cortés, Moctezuma, The Battle for Tenochtitlán (1519), Francisco Pizarro, encomienda, repartimiento & mita, Potosi, smallpox, mercantilism, Middle Passage, triangular trade, asiento |
| 06. Adam Smith, James Watt, The Canton System, Opium War (1839-42), Commissioner Lin Zexu, The Nemesis, The Treaty of Nanjing (1842), unequal treaties, Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864), The Sepoy Mutiny (1857), Meiji Restoration (1868) |
| 07. NONE |
| 08. The Berlin Conference (1884-5), Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes, Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), Spanish-American War (1898), “White Man’s Burden,” The Boxer Rebellion (1900), Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) |
| 09. The Central Powers, The Triple Entente, poison gas, Wilfred Owen, The Treaty of Versailles (1919), The League of Nations, Hussein Ibn Ali, Palestine, Zionism, Balfour Declaration, mandate system, Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution (1917), Vladimir Lenin, New Economic Policy, Joseph Stalin |
| 10. SunYat-sen, Guomindang (Nationalist Party), May Fourth Movement, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, The Long March, Indian National Congress, Mohandas Gandhi, swadeshi, swaraj, + from video: Ho Chi Minh, Sukarno, South Manchurian Railway Company, The Manchurian Incident, The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), The Nanjing Massacre, Tripartite Alliance, Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere |
| 11. The Final Solution, strategic (saturation, carpet, terror) bombing, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Manhattan Project, Nuremberg Principles, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Third World (see pp. 293-297 of Brower text) |
| 12. SCAP, "reverse course," US-Japan Security Treaty, Korean Conflict, People's Republic of China (PRC), The Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, The Muslim League, Sikhs, Punjab, Bengal, Kashmir, Bangladesh, Sukarno (1901-1970), Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), Geneva Accords (1956) |
| 13. Apartheid, African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, Biafra War, Juan Perón, Jacabo Arbenz Guzmán, United Fruit Company, Fidel Castro, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Bay of Pigs, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasir Arafat, Six Day War (1967), Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Arab-Israeli War (1973), Iranian Revolution (1979), Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein |
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