Plants, animals and microbes went from Europe to the Americas and from the Americas to Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
Around 3000 BCE, metalworkers here mixed copper and tin to produce this metal alloy which gave its name to a new age of weapons and tools.
What is bronze? (The Bronze Age)
100
This first Holy Roman Emperor ruled the largest kingdom Europe had seen since the fall of the Romans.
Who was Charlemagne?
100
This began around 2000 BCE and ended in the development of new societies and languages in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Bantu migration?
100
This "divine wind" kept the Mongols from invading Japan. It's name was later given to suicidal pilots in World War II.
What is kamikaze?
200
The first written law code was developed in Babylon by him.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
They sailed down rivers deep into Europe and set up a trading system based in Kiev. "Russia" takes its name from them.
Who are the Vikings?
200
In his travels to Mecca, this king of Mali passed out so much gold that he caused an economic crisis in Egypt.
Who was Mansa Musa?
300
It was the only American colony ruled by Portugal.
What is Brazil?
300
A leader of the Mauryan Empire, he promoted religious tolerance.
Who is Ashoka?
300
To him, history was a series of class struggles that would eventually lead to a "workers state."
Who is Karl Marx?
300
The Congo Free State was anything but as it existed to serve up profits from the rubber trade for this European monarch.
Who is King Leopold II of Belgium?
300
European powers wrested this right from China, so that their citizens there would not be subject to Chinese law.
What is "extraterritoriality"?
400
Almost all Latin American revolutionaries promised to do this for the people.
What is land reform?
400
This 1904 war was ended through negotiations headed by President Theodore Roosevelt, who feared a disruption of the balance of power in the Pacific.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
400
This labor movement started events that ended with the collapse of Communism by 1991.
What is Solidarity (in Poland)?
400
These two men led the independence movements in the Gold Coast (Ghana) and Kenya.
Who are Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta?
400
This American President used the CIA to overthrow unfriendly governments in Iran and Guatamala.
Who is Eisenhower?
500
This campaign was begun by Mao Zedong used the revolutionary fervor of young people to purge the Communist Party of his opponents.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
500
The death of the Communist ruler Tito led to war between Catholic, Orthodox, and Muslim ethnic groups to form their own countries out of this state that only came into being after World War I.
What is Yugoslavia?
500
He led the African National Congress and became the first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
This treaty between the British and the French laid the groundwork for a century of warfare in the Middle East.