Neolithic to River Valley
Major World Religions
Classical Empires
Post-Classical Trade
1450-1750
Enlightenment
1800-1900
-isms
WWI-WWII
Cold War
100

Located in Tigris and Euphrates River

What is Mesopotamia?

100

This religion developed out of Hebrew Monotheism

What is Judaism?

100

Empires that created something that is still being used today.

What are classical empires?

100

Used his army made up of horses and fear in his name to conquer and connect Asia to Europe

Who is Genghis Khan?

100

1. Change in thought

2. No more religion

3. YOLO

4. Embraces realistic view on art

5. Rebirth

What is Renaissance?

100

1. Natural rights

2. Government exists to protect natural rights

3. People should have the power to overthrow government

Who is John Locke?

100

Development of mechanical devices and steam engines

What is the Age of Industrialism?

100

Based on ideas of liberty

No government in economy

Government plays little to no role in society

What is Liberalism?

100

Nationalistic revolution from Serbia and death of Archduke Ferdinand 

What caused the First World War?

100

Big Three's met here to decide what to do with Europe after WWII.

What is the Yalta Conference?

200

This type of early society herded animals and was frequently mobile

What are pastoralists?

200

These are the two major world religions that started in India

What is Buddhism and Hinduism?

200

Double Jeopardy

This is the administrative technique used by the empires that created a government run by one person or entity

What is centralized government?

200

Porcelain, spices and textiles were traded from this area of the world

What is Asia?

200

This country led the charge in European exploration

What is Portugal?

200

Lack of representation caused the elites to lead this revolution

What is the American Revolution?

200

Forceful colonization to gain natural resources

What is imperialism?

200

Idea where decisions of politics and economics should be made by everyone

Forget competition, we need cooperation, where everyone work together to make everyone rich!

What is Socialism?

200

Digging major lines of ditches along the French Border

What is entrenchment warfare?

200

Create wall of countries to ensure Western countries are unaware of the activities in the Soviet Bloc.

What is the Iron Curtain?

300

Formation of gender inequality, social inequality and environmental problems

What is the worst mistake in humanity? aka Agricultural revolution.

300

This is more like a philosophy followed by the Chinese:

1. Ren

2. Xiao

What is Confucianism?

300

1. Rule through compromise

2. Let those who got conquered keep their religion

3. Show mercy to prisoners of war

What is Cyrus' assimilation strategy?

300

Travelers along this trade route relied heavily upon pack animals such as Camels

What is Trans-Saharan?

300

Economic system where it embraces:

1. Individualism

2. Competition

What is capitalism?

300

Revolution led by the common folks that ultimately lacked governmental stability and led to death of thousands

What is the French Revolution?

300

To give up their own culture to adopt that of Western Europeans

What is westernization?

300

Radical socialists, calling for violent war between working class and rich people, where everything belongs to the government and government decides who gets what and how much

What is communism?

300

Double or Nothing!

- Blamed Germany for starting the war

- Reduce German military down to 100,000

- Germany lost lands and their colonies

What is Treaty of Versailles?

300

Military commitment from US, to ensure Communism is contained in different parts of the world.

What is the Truman Doctrine?
400

Conquering nearby civilizations to bring them under one's control for taxing purposes

What is an empire?

400

This religion initially encountered much resistance until it was accepted by the Roman government

What is Christianity?

400

Double Jeopardy

Collection of laws from the Byzantine empire that influenced the western legal system

What is Justinian Code?

400

Chinese innovations like papermaking and gunpowder were usually spread along the Silk Roads with the help of these people

What are the Mongols?

400

This theory, which said that Kings had absolute power over the people

What is absolutism?

400

Different from other revolutions, this revolution was led by the slaves against their slave masters

What is the Haitian Revolution?

400

Belief that it was the burden of Europeans to help rest of the world industrialize and become like them

What is White Man's Burden?

400

Intense commitment to one’s own cultural group and have pride in their own heritage

What is nationalism?

400

Britain and France utilized this strategy to allow Hitler to do what he wants, all to avoid another war.

What was appeasement?

400

Double Jeopardy

Creation of common currency, Euro, allowed for Western European nations to recover post-WWII.

What is the Revival of Western Europe?

500

Gupta India's attempt to create cities with governmental structures at the center of the city, sanitation systems and commercial buildings.

What is urbanization?

500

Religion that consists of multiple forms of gods 

What is polytheism?

500

1. Black death wiped out commercial people

2. Germanic invasions

3. Barrack emperors

What is fall of the western Roman empire?

500

This Middle Eastern city grew primarily because of its location along a prominent trade route, during the Abbasid Caliphate

What is Baghdad?

500

The Europeans:

- Pigs, Horses, Cows, Smallpox

The Americans:

- Potato, Corn, Tomato

What is the Columbian Exchange?

500

Double Jeopardy

Grabbed the governmental power during time of confusion the start his own empire

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte? 

500

Based on Natural Selection of Charles Darwin where Europeans thought that they were the most fit to survive and rest of the world was beneath them

What is social Darwinism?

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

Artistic movement where it rejected the radical ideas of Enlightenment, and embraced passion, emotion, heroism and beauty of nature

What is romanticism?

500

Creation of Atomic Bomb, even the president did not know about this project.

What is the Manhattan Project?

500

Experimented with capitalism

Allowed limited free election in the Soviet Bloc

Single handily responsible for fall of USSR

Who is Gorbachev?

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