He preserved Greek culture and spread it throughout Eurasia and Northern Africa.
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
Belief in only one god.
What is monotheism?
100
Document recognizing natural rights based on the ideas of the Enlightenment, the American Declaration of Independence, and the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
100
Urban center that controlled the immediate regions surrounding it.
What is the city-state?
100
Enslaved children of Christian subjects turned into fighting warriors for the Ottomans.
What are Janissaries?
200
Babylonian king who designed the first law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Religion focused mainly on the relationships between people.
What is Confucianism?
200
A codification of Roman law that kept ancient Roman legal principles alive;constructed by Justinian.
What is Justinian's Code?
200
A government ruled by a hereditary ruler.
What is monarchy?
200
Movement focused on the role of mankind in relation to the government, ideas which greatly influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
He ruled France during the French Revolution and was later beheaded in front of the French citizens.
Who is Louis XIV?
300
A faith that represents a partial commitment to monotheism.
What is zoroastrianism?
300
Document extending the rule of law to other people in the country, especially the growing Burgher class in England.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
A policy of forming and maintaining empires, as by subjugating territories.
What is Imperialism?
300
A battle between the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist United States that lasted from 1945 to about 1991.
What is the Cold War?
400
He was the Marxist leader of the Bolsheviks.
Who is Vladmir Lenin?
400
Written by Martin Luther during the Protestant Reformation.
What are the Ninety-five Theses?
400
Strict code of which the samurai of Japan were required to follow;similar to the code of chivalry in Europe.
What is the Code of Bushido?
400
European social, economic, and political system of the Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
400
It controlled trade throughout much of northern Eurpoe in the Middle Ages.
What is the Hanseatic League?
500
He was a strong leader of Russia who gained the title as czar;once known as Ivan IV.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
500
Buddhist belief that can lead to Nirvana.
What is the Eightfold Path?
500
Beginning in 1478 by Isabella and Ferdinand, this was the banish of all non-believers in defense of Catholicism.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
500
System of which provided peninsulares with land and a specified number of native laborers;similar to feudalism in Europe.
What is the Encomienda system?
500
Also known as the Neolithic Revolution, this was the time where groups of people settled from their nomadic lifestyles from 8000-3000 B.C.E.