Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Revolution
100
An independent unit of organized government that developed in Ancient Greece.
What is a city-state?
100
A nation or group of terriroties ruled by a single powerful ruler.
What is an empire?
100
The period of history bewteen the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern world.
What is the Medieval Period?
100
A rebirth of art, music, learning and tarde beginning in the 1400's.
What is the Renaissance?
100
Scientific discoveries changed the way Europeans looked at the world.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
The system of government in which a few powerful and wealthy individuals rule.
What is an oligarchy?
200
The assembly of elected representatives that was the most powerful ruling body in ancient Rome.
What is the Senate?
200
Poor farmers who belonged to a fief and were not free to leave the land without permission from their lord.
What are peasants?
200
One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous masterpieces.
What is the Mona Lisa?
200
The invention of machines changed the way people worked from making things by hand to making them with machines in factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
Someone who studies the world and thinks about why it is the way it is.
What is a philosopher?
300
a common system of government and law
What helped unite the many different citizens of the Roman Republic?
300
A series of military expeditions led by Western European Christians in the 11th, 12th and 13th centureis to reclaim the Holy Lands from the Muslims.
What were the Crusades?
300
Three of William Shakespeare's most famous plays.
What are Romeo & Juliet, Othello and Macbeth?
300
During the 19th century, urban growth was caused by the increase in industrial growth in cities.
What is the Second-Industrial revolution?
400
The largest and most important Greek city-state.
What is Athens?
400
The religious belief that became the official religion of Rome.
What is Christianity?
400
A nobles house and the villages on his land where the peasants lived.
What is a manor?
400
The 16th century movement that focused on changing the practices of the Catholic Church.
What was the Reformation?
400
The mid-16th century movement which sent Jesuit missionaries to spread Catholic ideas across Europe, Asia and the "New World."
What was the Counter-Reformation?
500
Ancient Greek culture flourished chiefly through the contributions of these people.
What are playwrights, philosophers and artists?
500
Rome became a powerful empire by controlling the land around it.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
A political and economic system in which lords gave lands to less powerful nobles, called vassals, who agreed to provide services.
What is feudalism?
500
A skilled engineer, artist, inventor and scientist of the Renaissance.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
500
An ancient Greek ruler who helped to spread Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean region by conquering vast territories.
Who was Alexander the Great?
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