Week 1-3
Week 3: Rights that belong to all humans from birth (life, liberty, property) are called what?
Natural rights
Week 4: Growing unrest due to war losses, poverty, and lack of reform led to the ______________, where Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew the monarchy.
Russian Revolution
The movement of the people to cities
Urbanization
Week 7: Which country imperialized the Congo?
Belgium
What event triggered alliances and was the spark that started WWI?
the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Week 1: By 1750, the Qing dynasty ruled the world’s largest and most populous empire. It was founded in 1644 by the ________ from northeast Asia.
Manchus
Week 5: This Prussian-born German Prime Minister once told Parliament “The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority decisions… but by blood and iron.” He is known for this phrase, and for uniting Germany!
Realpolitik
He improved the steam engine in the late 1700's.
James Watt
Week 7: In response to Great Britain imperializing China, China engaged in the ______ Wars.
Opium
Due to the War Guilt Clause, this nation had to take full responsibility for World War II. They lost colonies, money, and millions of people due to the war.
Germany.
Week 2: In the 18th century, West Africa contained several powerful kingdoms. Three of the most prominent were the ______, _______, ______ kingdoms.
Ashanti, Benin, and Dahomey
Week 5: This Empire was called "the sick man of Europe" because it had lost territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
The Ottoman Empire
This system — _________ — encouraged innovation and private property.
Capitalism
Week 7: 14 nations met here to "scramble for Africa" and set rules in the continent that will destabilize it for generations.
The Berlin Conference
The treaty that ended WWI was called what?
The Treaty of Versailles
Week 1: Devshirme, a practice of recruiting Christian boys from the Balkans, converting them to Islam, and training them as elite soldiers or administrators. What were these boys called?
Janissaries.
Week 4: Bastille Day is known as the turning point of French Revolution because?
A mob raided a prison
Meiji Restoration (1868) marked the end of this period of Japanese history due to westernization and industrialization.
Tokugawa Shogunate
Week 7: Europeans believed in an idea called _____________ that argued that Whites were the most evolved and superior race.
Social Darwinism/White Man's Burden
This country never joins the League of Nations, leading to its downfall.
The United States.
Week 1: The Mughal Empire dominated much of the Indian subcontinent for hundreds of year, eventually falling to this imperial power called the ____________
British East India Company
Week 4: The only successful slave revolt in history (1791–1804).
The Haitian Revolution
Their main food source — the potato — suddenly turned black and rotted due to a fungal disease called blight. What was this phenomenon called?
The Irish Potato Famine
Week 8: Historians explain the causes of WWI using M.A.I.N. — _________, ________, __________, _________ — plus the assassination that finally triggered the war.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism
Why was World War I more destructive and deadly than earlier wars?
modern weapons