potpourri
The angel who gave Muhammed revelations from God
What is Gabriel?
The only continent without a river.
What is Antarctica?
The motives for Europeans wanting to go to Asia
What is Gold, glory and God
German city that the Soviets divided with the construction of a wall.
What is Berlin?
Capital city of China.
What is Bejing?
Famous for his universal law of gravitation.
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
Continent with the most countries.
What is Africa?
Device used to plot latitude using the sun or stars.
What is an astrolabe
The island that the Soviets installed nuclear weapons on in 1962.
What is Cuba
Since 1950 China has been considered this type of government. A small group of privileged people hold all the power.
What is an oligarchy?
Hitler's lightning warfare using tanks, dive bombers and motorized artillery. It's shocking
What is Blitzkrieg?
What is the dividing line between Europe and Asia?
What is the Ural Mountains
Italian navigator who sailed west from Europe and discovered the "Americas"
What is Christopher Columbus?
U.S. policy of restricting the spread of communism
What is containment?
The greatest mass murderer of the 20th century. He killed 65 million Chinese installing his Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.
What is Mao Zedong?
a series of military expeditions to the Holy Land to drive out the infidels.
What is the Crusades?
This continent contains the deepest lake in the world.
What is Asia?
the exchange of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Soviet leader that introduced perestroika and glasnost
What is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Dynasty that began when it expelled the Mongols from China in 1368.
What is the Ming?
The political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and people under its control after the death of Muhammad.
What is a caliphate?
The Balkan Peninsula is on this continent.
What is Europe?
Portuguese navigator who was the first to sail to around the southern tip of Africa
What is Bartolomeu Dias?
Massive economic aid package that would provide aid to Western European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Dynasty that started trade with Europe over the Silk Road.
What is the Han?