Empires and colonies in the modern world Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

AP World History Unit 10 Cold War and Decolonization Latest 2022 Graded A The Cold War 40 year period of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union Latter half of the 20th century, Capitalist United States and the Communist USSR emerged as the two global superpowers competing to fill the power vacuums left behind by WWII. They competed for global dominance through nuclear brinkmanship and proxy wars in the developing world. Marshall Plan U.S program to support the reconstruction of Western...

University of California: ANTHRO 41A FINAL LATEST 2021/2022 Fall of Aztec & Incan Empires ● Led to an influx of enormous amounts of wealth into Europe ● Spain become first European “superpower” with Emperor Charles I as its ruler ● Disease is one of the primary reasons that these American empires fell to the Spanish conquistadors ● The Spanish were able to make alliances with local groups (such as the Tlaxcalans) who sent huge armies that gave the Spanish a huge military advanta...

Anthro 41A Final Review (Maya_ menon) Exam 2021/2022 Hernando Cortez Pt.1: • Lead Spanish group from Cuba in search of China/India • Arrives in Mexico in 1519 (same year the GOD Quetzalcoatl was predicted to arrive) Hernando Cortez Pt. 2: • Thinking he was possibly the God (Quetzalcoatl) the Aztecs sent him gifts) Hernando Cortez Pt. 3: • Later destroyed the Aztec Empire with his boats and with the Tlaxcalan allies (had 149,000 men who hated the Aztecs) after the Aztec popul...

Question 1 1. Why didn't early Portuguese and Dutch explorers decide to create settlements in Australia? Question 2 2. Which American crop became popular in the Islamic empires during the early modern era? Question 3 3. Which of the following was constructed during the Ming Dynasty in China? Question 4 4. What impact did Portuguese forts have on the Swahili city-states of east Africa in the 1500s? Question 5 5. Which of the following was an advantage held by Spanish conquistadores to he...