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He was the founder of the communist state in Russia and the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution?
Vladimir Lenin
This radical period of the French Revolution saw thousands of people being publicly executed.
Reign of Terror
Why were European countries "scrambling for Africa in the late 1800s?
They were trying to colonize Africa and obtain resources they needed for industrialization.
What has four wheels and flies?
Garbage truck
Please explain the concept of imperialism.
One country taking over and/or controlling another country for economic or political gain.
Followers of Islam must make the pilgrimage to this city (birthplace of Muhammad) at least once in the life.
Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
This leader of German unification also led the negotiations of the Berlin Conference.
Otto von Bismarck.
Why can't you trust the king of the jungle?
Because he's always lion.
This international peacekeeping organization was formed after world war 1, and did a horrible job of keeping the peace. Especially when countries like Germany and Italy became increasingly aggressive.
League of Nations.
This rebellion against European imperialism saw Chinese rebels targeting and killing westerners and Christian missionaries in China.
Boxer Rebellion.
This man became dictator of France in the aftermath of French Revolution. His wars throughout Europe would severely impact world history afterwards.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In case they get a hole in one.
Explain one similarity between the efforts of the Meiji Restoration in Japan and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Turkey.
They both aimed to westernize and industrialize their nations.
Throughout the continent of Australia, these native populations had been forcibly removed, relocated and assimilated into western, British culture.
Aboriginal people
This enlightenment thinker believed firmly in the concept that the government's powers should separated into three branches.
Baron de Montesquieu.
Nothing, its on the house.
In class, we listened to the perspective of this woman who escaped North Korea and recounted what it was like to live a communist totalitarian country.
Yeonmi Park
The fall of this Byzantine city in 1453 to the Ottoman Empire forced many European travelers to find an alternate route to East Asia.
Constantinople.