Big Changes
Cold War
French Revolution
Dark Ages
Ancient Civilizations
100
This change stopped nomadic living and started the beginning of the civilization
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
100
This was a pledge that committed the US to help any countries that wanted to stop communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
This class was everybody in French society except for nobles and clergy.
What is the Third Estate?
100
This social system maintained order in Western Europe without a central political leader.
What is feudalism?
100
This civilization invented direct democracy
What is Greek?
200
This change broke up the unity of the Christian Church andn led to the rise of nationalism in Europe
What is the Protestant Reformation?
200
This was a huge aid package went towards rebuilding the economies of Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This document was written after members of the National Assembly assembled in a Tennis Court to form a new government.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Man?
200
These empires preserved the ideas of Greece and Rome in daily living and in libraries.
What are the Islamic and Byzantine Empires?
200
This Civilization regularly practiced human sacrifices in their capital Tenochtitlan.
What is Aztec?
300
This change brought Europe out of the Dark Ages and glorified individualism and humanity
What is the Renaissance?
300
This was the policy of the US to stop communism from spreading.
What is containment?
300
This event, on July 14, 1789, is popularly known as the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
300
The Byzantine Empire greatly affected this culture in architecture, religion, and language (Cyrillic Alphabet).
What is Russian?
300
This civilization, unififed by one language and road system, dominated Europe and Northern Africa for almost one thousand years
What is Rome
400
This change questioned authority, government, politics, and the society
What is the Enlightenment?
400
The threat of using atomic weapons to handle Cold War problems.
What is nuclear proliferation?
400
While dealing with multiple foreign wars, and a civil war, this policy was instituted to kill all enemies of the Revolution within France.
What is The Terror?
400
These were a series of holy wars between the Islamic Empire and the Lords of Europe
What are the Crusades?
400
This civilization flourished off the gold-salt trade and had a thriving capital named Timbuktu
What is Mali?
500
This change led to the rise of towns, financial institutions, and the fall of the feudal system in the 1200s.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
500
These two philosophies from Gorbachev helped bring down the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the USSR itself.
What is glasnost and perestroika?
500
This man is considered by many to have ended the French Revolution
Who is Napoleon?
500
They were a group of people from Scandinavia that pillaged and invaded most of Europe
Who are the Vikings?
500
This civilization was known as the Middle Kingdom, and used the tenants of Confucianism to organize its society
What is China?
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