Quarter One
Most Important City in the Holy Land
Jerusalem
A cultural movement from the 14th - 17th century that represented a renewed interest in science, math, art, and literature inspired by classic Rome and Greece
The Renaissance
Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis to the door a church and sparked this
The Protestant Reformation
Building an empire, or the act of one country exerting power and influence over others
Imperialism
Term that describes payment one country must make because of the damage it caused to others
Reparations
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Industrial Revolution
This document ended WWI
The Versailles Treaty
Term for conflict between Great Britain and China over unfair trade practices
The Opium Wars
Epidemic that killed between 1/3 and 1/2 of Europe's population during the Middle Ages
The Black Death (or Plague)
Empire that controlled parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from 1299-1917
The Ottoman Empire
Country where a revolution in manufacturing first occurred
Event that sparked World War I
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
The largest amphibious invasion in military history that marked the beginning of the end of World War II
D-Day, or June 6, 1944
Series of wars between Christians and Muslims fought over control of the Holy Land
Cycle that represents the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties
The French Revolution
Event that brought the United States into World War II
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The state-sponsored murder of over 6 million Jews and other groups deemed as undesirable by the Nazis
The Holocaust
Method by which the plague spread from China to Europe
Carried by rats and the fleas that bit them to humans via trade routes
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, scholars started to question their beliefs about the world and base their conclusions on observation and reason rather than spiritual belief in this revolution
Scientific Revolution
The Haitian Revolution
Two cities where the atomic bomb was dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Partition in a German city that separated citizens but fell in 1989
The Berlin Wall