NY Regents 10.1: The World in 1750

The Battle of Chaldiran took place in 1514 near what is now Caldiran, in the Van Province of eastern Turkey — on the high Anatolian plateau where the highlands of Anatolia give way toward the Zagros…

Sekigahara, a small town in present-day Japan's Gifu Prefecture, sits in a strategic mountain pass corridor on Honshu — the main island of the Japanese archipelago, separated from the Korean…

This event unfolded in Edo — today's Tokyo — on Honshu, the main island of Japan, a volcanic archipelago curving along the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean, directly east across the Sea of…

Hormuz Island sits at the Strait of Hormuz — the 39-kilometre-wide channel where the Persian Gulf narrows before opening into the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean. In 1622, the Safavid Shah Abbas I…

This is Agra, in present-day India, sitting on the Yamuna River on the broad Indo-Gangetic Plain — the flat, river-crossed heartland stretching south from the Himalayas. In 1632, Mughal Emperor Shah…

This uprising took place on the Shimabara Peninsula in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands, where the land juts southward into the sea between the open Pacific and the sheltered…

Beijing sits at the northern edge of the North China Plain, where the Taihang and Yanshan mountain ranges converge to form a natural gateway between Inner Asia and the agricultural heartland. In…

This event took place in London, England — the capital of the large island of Great Britain, sitting off the northwest edge of continental Europe and separated from France by the English Channel at…

Versailles sits on the Île-de-France plateau roughly 20 km southwest of Paris, in the broad Seine basin that drains most of northern France. In May 1682, Louis XIV permanently relocated the French…

This is Vienna, the capital of Austria, sitting in the Danube basin where the eastern Alps give way to the great Central European plain — exactly the forested hills above the city that the title…

Fontainebleau, a town in north-central France roughly 55 kilometres south of Paris, is where Louis XIV signed the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, revoking the religious protections that French…

Nerchinsk, in what is now Russia's Far East, sits in the basin where the Stanovoy Mountains slope down toward the Amur River — exactly the frontier the two delegations had gathered to divide. In…

Jao Modo (also written Zuunmod) lies in the Mongolian steppe, roughly in the Tuul River valley north of the Gobi Desert and south of the Khangai Mountains. In 1696, Qing Emperor Kangxi personally led…

This battle took place at Senta, a town in modern-day Serbia, positioned on the Tisa River — a major southern tributary of the Danube — on the broad, flat plains that stretch between the Carpathian…

The Battle of Karnal took place near Karnal, in present-day northern India, on the flat plains that stretch between the Hindu Kush foothills to the northwest and the Gangetic Plain to the southeast…

This was the Battle of Plassey, fought in 1757 near the village of Palashi in present-day West Bengal, India — on the low, humid plains where the Ganges and its tributaries fan out toward the Bay of…

This battle took place at Panipat, a town in northern India sitting on the flat plains between the Himalayas to the north and the Gangetic heartland to the south — exactly the kind of open ground…