This Fleeting World - Agrarian Era (61-66)

Bubonic plague that decimated Eurasia in the 14th century.

• The Great Dying
• Green Death
• White Death
• Black Death

Series of epidemics that decimated the indigenous populations of the Americas beginning in the 16th century with arrival of Europeans.

• Grand Dying
• Great Dying
• The Columbian Exchange
• The Bubonic Plague

Refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds.  Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.

• The Columbian Exchange
• The Great Dying
• Black Death
• Technological Synergy

Unification of the major world zones that generated a commercial and intellectual synergy that was to play a critical role in the emergence of the modern world.

• The Columbian Exchange
• Global Networks of Exchange
• Corporate Globalization
• Technological Synergy

The first empire to straddle the Atlantic Ocean.

• Persian Empire
• Chinese Empire
• Egyptian Empire
• Spanish Empire

Brought about by the new influx of information accessed by European states in their drive for inclusion in the Asian markets, which caused European thinkers to reconsider received wisdom and to experiment with new ideas.

• Scientific Revolution
• Cognitive Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

“We do not know.”

• Doofus
• Fool
• Idiot
• Ignoramus