Unit 1-2
One of the first Mesoamerican complex societies
What is the Olmec civilization?
A major city in modern day turkey that was conquered in 1453.
What is Istanbul?
A period in history and a cultural movement in Europe marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.
What was the Renaissance?
An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Who was John Locke?
A Russian party led by Vladmir Lenin.
What are the Bolsheviks?
Collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 ce
What is the Justinian Code?
An empire that ruled over most of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
What is the Mughal Empire?
A machine used to print the Gutenburg Bible?
What is the Johannnes Gutenberg printing press?
The war that marked the end of the Napoleonic War.
What was the battle of Waterloo?
A diplomatic and political organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security.
What is the United Nations?
An ancient Chinese philosophical text composed of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius and his contemporaries (also known as "The Sayings of Confucius")
This invention is a one or two masted Arab sailing vessel, usually equipped with a lanteen rigging. Commonly used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
What is the Arab Dhow?
This person was king of England from 1509 - 1547 and was involved in 6 marriages.
Who is Henry Vlll?
A small devices used in Eurasia world in the Middle Ages that could measure the altitude of objects above the horizon, determine the exact time of day and time of year, and find position on the earth.
What is the Astrolabe?
Germany's strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War ll in Europe.
What was Blitzkrieg?
The exile of the Jewish people from what is modern day Israel to current day middle east
What is Jewish Diaspora?
A social class of people who own the means of production, making them in the upper or merchant class.
What was the Bourgeoisie?
Who was the last Incan emperor who was captured during the Spanish Conquest?
Who was Atahulpa?
What a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples.
What is the Encomienda?
The biggest nuclear disaster in history.
What was Chernobyl?
A Roman Emperor whose government and economic reforms helped recover Rome from the Crisis of the Third Century. Ruling from 285 to 305 CE, Diocletian split the Roman Empire in half and established the Tetrarchy, where he shared rule with three co-emperors.
Who is the emperor Diocletian?
A failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land.
What was the Children Crusade?
A Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1519
Who is Hernan Cortes?
What trade theory the value of domestic goods exported exceeds the value of foreign goods imported.
What is the Favorable Balance of Trade?
A guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989
What was the Berlin Wall?