Unit 1 (The Enlightenment)
In his "Letter Concerning Toleration," John Locke expanded on ideas laid out in his earlier Second Treatise on Government. This is what he argued for the toleration of.
What is religion?
This religion is brought by British missionaries to the Igbo peoples.
What is Christianity?
American characters in Maus are represented by these animals
What are dogs?
This product was heavily taxed by the British in colonial India, sparking a march in April and March of 1930.
What is salt?
This is the capitol city of Iran.
Olympe de Gouge's wrote her Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen in 1791, at the height of what great political uprising?
What is the French Revolution?
Okonkwo gains his local fame by defeating a wrestler with this nickname.
What is 'The Cat'?
Vladek accompanies Anya to a sanitarium while she ails from this physical/psychological condition.
What is Postpartum Depression?
This piece (or set) of jewelry exchanges hands several times throughout the novel and materially symbolizes the complicated attachments of Independence's characters.
What are bangles?
What is Iraq?
This writer characterized the state of nature as 'the war of all against all' where people's lives are defined as 'nasty, brutish, and short'
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
These root vegetables act as a symbol for wealth and social status in Things Fall Apart.
What are yams?
In June of 1919, dignitaries from around Europe met in this city's palace's Hall of Mirrors to ratify a document ending World War I.
What is Versailles?
This language, sharing a large amount of its grammar with Hindi, is the national language of Pakistan.
What is Urdu?
The process of securing a resource or industry for the exclusive use of a country's government, even against the wishes of private companies, is known as this.
What is nationalization?
This political philosopher developed the concept of the 'general will', an idea which takes into account the desires of society as a whole above and beyond any single individual or their personal rights.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This two word phrase refers to the domination of certain ideas, social norms, and concepts over a group or society; the dominance is so total that, in some cases, such ideas and norms are merely seen as 'common sense' among the relevant population.
What is cultural hegemony?
This word, derived from the original Greek, is a combination of the words 'burnt' and 'offering or sacrifice'.
What is Holocaust?
Formally known as East Pakistan, this country gained independence in 1971.
What is Bangladesh?
Alongside the United States and United Kingdom, this country had a vested interest in Iran's domestic politics from WWII up through the 1979 Revolution.
What is the USSR?
The Enlightenment is largely considered to have started* in this century.
What is the 17th Century (1600s).
The Igbo people live primarily in Western Africa, especially in the region that forms the delta of this major river.
What is the Niger?
199 Nazis were tried after the conclusion of WWII for offenses ranging from conspiracy to crimes against humanity in this German city.
What is Nuremberg?
Priya and her sisters are excited by a potential trip to the cinema in Calcutta, where the main feature is a showing of this famous Agatha Christie adaptation.
What is "And Then There Were None?"
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all a part of this family of religions, named for a shared profit.
What are Abrahamic Religions?