The Enlightenment
He believed people are born with a blank slate and make decisions based on their experiences.
Who is John Locke?
A form of government where people elect leaders to make decisions for them.
What is a representative democracy?
Martin Luther's challenges to the Catholic Church that he posted on a church door in Wittenberg.
What are his 95 Theses?
A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship with triangular sails that allowed it to sail against the wind.
What is a caravel?
This was the organization that served as the predecessor to the United Nations.
What is the League of Nations?
He believed an effective government was based on a social contract in which people give up some natural freedoms for protection.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
A form of government where one person has complete control.
What is an autocracy?
These certificates were issued by the Church and believed to reduce or cancel the punishment for a person's sins in purgatory.
What are indulgences?
His exploration and notes led to the discovery that the Americas were not Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This is where the UN Charter was written and passed by representatives from 50 different countries.
What is San Francisco?
This is the idea that without government people live in a lawless society plagued with violence.
What is the state of nature?
A form of government led by a religious leader where laws are based on a holy text.
What is a theocracy?
The central Protestant belief that salvation is achieved through faith in Jesus Christ alone, rather than through good works, sacraments, or papal authority.
What is Sola Fide?
An economic policy where nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.
What is mercantilism?
This outlines the basic rights everyone in the world should have.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
He believed that a government should be separated into three different branches to balance power.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
A form of government where divine right to rule determines the leader who has ultimate power.
What is an absolute monarchy?
He introduced the radical doctrine of predestination: the belief that God long ago determined who will gain salvation and who will not.
Who is John Calvin?
This is the term used to describe the sharing of plants, animals, and diseases by European explorers in the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These are the five permanent members of the Security Council.
Who are the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom?
He wrote "The Prince" which highlighted the corrupt aspects of absolute rule.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
A form of government where a small group of wealthy people make all the decisions.
What is an oligarchy?
Luther's ideas quickly turned from a theological debate into a pan-European revolution because of this invention.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?
This was the result of European diseases, such as smallpox, to which indigenous people had no immunity.
What is demographic collapse?
These are the six bodies of the United Nations.
What are the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice, and Secretariat?