Classical World
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Modern Europe
Odds and Ends
100
These two civilizations made up the Classical World
What are Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome?
100
This event caused western Europe to enter the Middle Ages.
What is the Fall of Western Rome?
100
The Ninja Turtles were named after artists from here, where the Renaissance began.
What is Italy?
100
A great and often violent change.
What is a revolution?
100
Jesus Christ was born a citizen of this place.
What is Rome?
200
This civilization was made up of many city-states.
What is Ancient Greece?
200
Christian "Holy Wars"
What are crusades?
200
Religious movement led by Martin Luther to break away from the Catholic Church.
What was the Reformation?
200
As a result of this, Europe began to change to an urban society in the 1700s.
What is the industrial Revolution?
200
The main form of Christianity practiced in Ukraine
What are the Eastern Orthodox?
300
This was the location of the world's first democracy.
What is Athens?
300
The system of government during the Middle Ages in western Europe.
What is feudalism?
300
A new way of thinking that focused on individual reason as a path to knowledge.
What is Humanism?
300
A political revolution in Europe in the late 1700s.
What is the French Revolution?
300
The first Roman Emperor
Who is Caesar Augustus?
400
This was the period of peace and prosperity for the Roman Empire that lasted about 200 years.
What is the Pax Romana?
400
This caused the death of about 1/3 of Europe's population.
What is the Black Plague?
400
The name for the churches in Northern Europe that separated from the Catholic Church.
What is Protestant?
400
The 1700s were known as the Age of this, because of new revolutions in scientific and political thought.
What is Enlgihtenment?
400
The three natural rights that John Locke wrote about
What are life, liberty, and property?
500
He was the student of Aristotle, who eventually conquered the Greeks and Persians.
Who was Alexander the Great?
500
This was a Germanic King who united much of western Europe during the early Middle Ages.
Who was Charlemagne?
500
The name now used to describe the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
500
The approximate number of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust during World War II.
What is 6 million?
500
Three cultural aspects of Ancient Rome that can be seen in the U.S. today.
What are language (Latin roots), architecture, and law?
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