Middle Ages
Renaissance
Scientific Rev.
Imperialism
20th Century
100
Poor harvests that led to scarcity and starvation in almost all of northern Europe in the years 1315-1322. "Seven lean years."
What is the Great Famine?
100
This man wrote the most read book of the Renaissance, "The Prince".
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
100
This hypothesis had enormous scientific and religious implications that said the stars movement was just a result of the earth's rotation, and destroyed the basic idea of Aristotelian physics.
What is the Copernican hypothesis?
100
This is the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.
What is Imperialism?
100
This structure divided Germany into two sections after World War II.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
The classic symptom of the bubonic plague that was a growth the size of a nut or an apple in the armpit, groin or on the neck. This symptom gave the the disease its name.
What is the Buba?
200
This type of government is the rule of merchant aristocracies that had triumphed everywhere in Italy by 1300.
What are oligarchies?
200
This Florentine scientist developed the experimental method.
Who is Galileo?
200
Statement of U.S. foreign policy toward China. Issued by U.S. secretary of state John Hay (1899), the statement reaffirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade.
What is the Open Door Policy?
200
This fascist ruler took power of Italy in the years leading up to World War II.
Who is Mussolini?
300
French peasant girl whose visions and work revived French fortunes and led to victory.
Who is Joan of Arc?
300
His The Praise of Folly is considered to be one of the catalysts for the Protestant Reformation
Who is Erasmus?
300
He developed the law of universal gravitation, that every body in the universe attracts every other body in the universe in a precise mathematical relationship, whereby the force of attraction is proportional to the quantity of matter of the objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
These two imperialist powers acquired rich territories in Asia.
Who are Russia and United States?
300
The assassination of this Archduke of Austria is credited for the outbreak of World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
400
From 1309 to 1376, the popes lived in Avignon. In order to control the church and its policies, Philip the Fair of France pressured Pope Clement V to settle in Avignon. Clement critically ill with cancer, lacked the will to resist Philip. This period in church history is often called this.
What is the Babylonian Captivity?
400
This Italian banking family controlled the politics and culture of their cities.
Who is the Medici family?
400
The publication of this scientist's work, On the Fabric of the Human Body, is considered to have changed the course of science and sparked the Scientific Revolution.
Who is Vesalius?
400
This war was an imperialistic measure of the United States
What is Spanish-American war?
400
This form of war was used by Hitler using planes, tanks and trucks, also called "lightening war".
What is Blitzkrieg?
500
They believed that reform of the church could best be achieved through periodic assemblies, or general councils, representing all the Christian people.
Who are the Conciliarists?
500
This idea stressed personality, uniqueness, genius and full development of one's capabilities and talents.
What is Individualism?
500
His powerful single lens microscope opened the field of micro biology.
Who is van Leeuwenhoek?
500
This English economist wrote one of the most famous critiques of the economic bases of imperialism in 1902.
Who is John A. Hobson?
500
This major battle signified a turning point in the war on the Eastern front. It was a major German defeat.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
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