Government/Economic Systems
A government system where the leader has complete power over all aspects of citizens' lives.
Totalitarian Dictatorship
Middle Eastern religion which believes Jesus Christ to be a prophet but not the son of God.
Islam
This teaching method used in Ancient Greece but now primarily in law schools, involves asking questions in order to learn new material.
Socratic Method
A condition where countries with many natural resources have less economic growth than countries with fewer natural resources.
Resource Curse
Mountain range found in South America that forms the border between Argentina and Chile.
Andes Mountains
A government system that is based on religious belief.
Theocracy
The name of a headscarf or full body robe worn by Muslim women as part of a modesty code.
Hijab or burka
This building found in the center of the Roman Republic, is where gladiators fought to their deaths in ship battles and hand-to-hand combat.
The Colosseum
The definition of this term is the seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country, usually to exploit its people and resources. Some key examples include Great Britain's occupation of India, Spain in South America, and the United States in Hawaii and the Phillippines in the early 20th century.
Imperialism
The mountain range that divides Europe from Asia
In this type of economic system the government sets all production goals for factories and farms. It is the type of economic system that Mao Zedong pushed when he became the leader of the People's Republic of China.
Communism
A rabbi is the typical religious leader for this Middle Eastern religion.
Judaism
Hungry peasants, Bloody Sunday, a major war with the rest of Europe, and a leader who was out of touch with his people when communism began to become popular, all led to this revolution.
The Russian Revolution
Many Africans, particularly women, have to travel long distances to get this resource that often isn’t even clean, leading to illness and lack of education.
Water
Although there is some debate whether this river is longer than the Nile, people generally believe it to hold the largest volume of water of any river found on the our planet.
The Amazon River
This type of economic system can be found in Canada, the UK, and many other European countries. Its system functions by using tax revenue to provide goods and services to the people.
Socialism
Aside from believing cows are sacred, practitioners of this religion also believe in reincarnation and that the Ganges River is sacred.
Hinduism
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism are all said to be causes of this conflict in Europe and the Atlantic.
World War I
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation such as the Holocaust or the killing of Tutsi in Rwanda.
Genocide
The chain of islands named the West Indies by Columbus is now home to one of a few communist countries around the world. This is the capital of that communist country.
Havanna
This type of economy is associated with producing and trading goods needed to survive. The Inuit tribe and other remote groups are the only civilizations that rely on this system today.
Traditional
The name of the holy book used by most practitioners of Buddhism
Tripitaka
This treaty drawn up in Paris placed the burden of WWI reparations on Germany requiring its government to rename itself the Weimar Republic, pay over $50 billion, and give up its holdings in Africa and other locations around the world.
Treaty of Versailles
These two Latin American revolutionaries worked together to liberate the Viceroyalty of Peru in the 19th century. One started in Venezuela and worked his way South and the other started in Buenos Aires and worked his way North.
Simón Bolívar and José de San Martin
This country found East of Poland and North of Ukraine was recently used by Russia as a staging ground for its war against Ukraine.
Belarus