Silk Road
richest man that ever lived, ruler of the Mali Empire
Mansa Musa
The invasion of ___________ started WWII.
Poland
Ottoman Empire
Karl Marx called the working class this _______, saying they would some day rise up against the elite.
proletariat
Where you could trade in salt.
Trans-Saharan Route
created a navigation school in Portugal to teach sailors how to use Arab tools and sails.
Prince Henry the Navigator
The atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Renaissance began here:
Italy
He was the leader of the Bolsheviks that overthrew the Romanov dynasty and turned Russia into the USSR.
Vladimir Lenin
father of Capitalism
Adam Smith
Joseph Stalin
Mexico (Central America)
Johannes Guttenberg invented the _______ greatly increasing the worlds literacy rate.
The printing press
Leader that turned China communist
Mao Zedong
the empire that ran the Silk Road
The Mongol Empire
president that is said to have helped the US out of the Great Depression and the start of WWII.
F.D.R
The United States secretly had missiles here pointing at the USSR, this led the USSR to put missiles in Cuba.
Turkey
The Manhattan Project
when people tried to escape from its eastern half, the Soviets created this _______ to keep its people from escaping.
The Berlin Wall
The United States allowed allied countries to buy and transport goods during WWII
Dwight D. Eisenhower
At the end of imperialism, this empire had the most colonies. One on every continent.
The British Empire
penicillin
known in China as the June Fourth Incident, held from 15 April to 4 June 1989. The Chinese government initiated martial law in late May and deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is _________
Tiananmen Square Massacre