Wars
Revolutions
Empires
Royalty
Special Groups
100
During WWI, when the Russian Czar went to the front to encourage his troops, his Queen Alexandra came to rely on this illiterate peasant and self-proclaimed holy man.
Who is Rasputin?
100
This Creole priest took the first step toward Mexican independence from Spain in his "Dolores de los Gritos" speech.
Who is Hidalgo?
100
Japanese Feudal knight or warrior.
What is samurai?
100
Indian Prince
Who is rajah?
100
Communist Party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty.
Who are Commissars?
200
Known as horrible acts against innocent people.
What are atrocities?
200
In the Boxer Rebellion, many Chinese Christians and these outsiders from foreign lands who came to spread Christianity were killed.
Who are missionaries?
200
Landowning feudal lord in Japan.
Who are daimyo?
200
17th Century Russian leader who modernized Russia by changing the dress code and building a new capital in the west known as St. Petersburg.
What is Peter the Great
200
Movement of the Boers, Dutch settlers in Africa, from the Cape area was known as . . .
What is The Great Trek?
300
As a result of the Opium War, this Chinese port was won by Britain.
What is Hong Kong?
300
This Haitian self-educated former slave led slaves to victory over France in 1798.
Who is Toussaint?
300
Social class in Latin America who were born in Spain, had the most power and held the best jobs.
What are peninsulares?
300
According to this theory, the king was God's deputy on earth and royal commands expressed God's will.
What is divine right.
300
Dutch people who lived in trade centers in Africa and started large cattle farms.
Who are the Boers?
400
Otto von Bismarck started this war when he challenged Denmark for her provinces.
What is the Austro-Prussian War?
400
This brought rapid urbanization to Britain in he 1700s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
At the onset of WWI this empire lost vast amounts of land to European countries.
What is Ottoman Empire?
400
In the late 17th Century, this included the Declaration of Rights, Bill of Rights, Habeas Corpus Act, and the Petition of Rights into the English Constitution. It proves that England was coming more to a limited monarchy as well as catering more to the public's best interest.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
Indians who fought as soldiers for the British.
Who are the Sepoys?
500
The decline of this Mediterranean empire was due to failure to modernize, disunity, nationalism and loss of territories.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
17th Century: It defined the powers that Parliament possessed over the monarch. It established that only Parliament could control taxes, laws, standing armies, and that all have free speech.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
500
Wealthy Russian peasants in the 1930s.
Who are the Kulaks?
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