Interaction of Europe and the World
National and European Identity
Social and Organizational Development
States and Other Institutions of Power
Economic and Commercial Development
Cultural and Intellectual Development
Technological and Scientific Innovation
100
This United States economic plan provided aid to Western Europe in its efforts to rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This country dropped out of the European Union in 2020 as the result of a referendum?
What is the United Kingdom?
100
General term used to describe a society in which men had most of the economic and political power and women were dependent on men
What is a patriarchal?
100
What the first S stood for in USSR
What is "Soviet?"
100
Currency adopted by the European Union in 1999 to promote more trade
What is the Euro?
100
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 made this group legally different from their German neighbors.
Who were the Jews?
100
This type of ship was used by Columbus and Vasco da Gama on their journeys of exploration.
What was the caravel?
200
European country which gained control of Indochina in the 1800s
What is France?
200
During its 1790s Revolution, this country was the first to develop nationalism.
What is France?
200
Term used by Karl Marx to refer to factory and mine workers in industrial society
What is "proletariat?"
200
The name of the alliance between communist countries in Eastern Europe between 1955 and 1991
What was the Warsaw Pact?
200
This company came to dominate the economy of India in the early 1800s and also defeated the forces of the Qing government in the First Opium War.
What was the British East India Company?
200
This British biologist explained how "natural selection" contributed to the evolution of plants and animals.
Who was Charles Darwin?
200
The lname of the nuclear power plant in Ukraine that released large amounts radioactive material in 1986
What was Chernobyl?
300
Material mined in South America at Potosi and transported to China in order to purchase silk and porcelain
What is silver?
300
This chancellor of Prussia led German unification to success by 1871.
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
300
Karl Marx used this term to condemn socialists like Charles Fourier and Robert Owen for ideas that seemed unrealistic.
What is "utopian?"
300
Louis XIV built this palace about 12 miles outside of Paris to enhance his control over the French nobles.
What is Versailles?
300
Popular economic system in the 1600s and early 1700s that relied on government regulation and colonies to achieve a greater value of exports than imports
What was mercantilism?
300
This British economist predicted that the growth of population would eventually lead to famine and war.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
300
James Hargreaves developed this machine to speed up the production of wool thread.
What was the Spinning Jenny?
400
First explorer to sail from Portugal to India by circumnavigating Africa
Who was Vasco da Gama?
400
Diplomats met in this city to redraw the map of Europe after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
What is Vienna?
400
Term used in France in the 1700s and 1800s to refer to the urban poor - especially in Paris
What is "sans culottes?"
400
Headquartered in Geneva, this international organization was created after World War I to preseve the peace.
What was the "League of Nations?"
400
Cottage industry workers in England who destroyed early factory machines to prevent losing their jobs
Who were the Luddites?
400
This new denomination in the 1500s was targeted by both the Catholics and the Lutherans for their radical beliefs and practices.
Who were the Anabaptists?
400
This British doctor developed the first vaccine for smallpox in the late 1700s
Who was Edward Jenner?
500
Sea route sought by several European explorers to bring them above North America in order to reach Asia.
Northwest Passage
500
Term often used to describe Europe in contrast to the dominance of Islam in the Middle East and Africa in the 1400s.
What is Christendom?
500
These officials are just below the Pope but have greater authority than Archbishops.
What are Cardinals?
500
Name of officials that Cardinal Richelieu created to collect taxes in France for Louis XIII
What were the intendants?
500
During the Depression countries in this region of Europe embraced "state socialism."
What is Scandinavia?
500
The artist who created this painting:
What was Jacques Louis David?
500
A primary weapon used to extend European power in the late 1800s, this was the first fully automatic machine gun developed in the world.
What was the Maxim gun?