Ancient Culture
This Macedonian King united Greece, conquered the old Persian Empire, and even conquered much of India before dying at the age of 34. He is considered the father of Hellenistic Culture.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This man argued for freedom of speech during the enlightenment.
Who is Voltaire?
This French King is known for this famous saying...
"L'État, c'est moi."
Which means "I am the state"
Who is Louis XIV?
This man was the first to have writings published arguing that the sun was the center of the Universe and not the Earth.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
This city-state is the founder of democracy and home to Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.
What is Athens, Greece?
This is the first culture to have a written language known as cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians?
This man led the Russian Communist revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Absolutist rulers believed that their power was derived directly from what?
What is the Divine Right or God?
This man used a telescope to study the moons of Jupiter which proved without a doubt that celestial bodies could orbit things other than Earth.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
All roads lead here. The center of one of the largest and longest lasting Republics turned Empire in the ancient world.
What is Rome?
This is the first ruler to have a codified system of laws which were put on totems throughout his kingdom.
Who is Hammurabi?
These types of governments believe in extreme nationalism, all people serving the government, censorship of the press, and secret police forces.
What are fascists?
This Russian Czar traveled throughout western Europe looking for ways to modernize his empire, moved his capital, and built a shiny new navy.
Who is Peter the Great?
This is the change in thought that led people to believe that logic and reason should be used to solve complex problems rather than tradition and superstition.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This was the birthplace of Islam and is a common place of pilgrimage for Muslims.
What is Mecca?
This culture is the mother culture of Mesoamerica and is famous for building their Colossal Stone Heads.
Who are the Olmecs?
This person was the first elected Prime Minister of India.
Who is Indira Ghandi?
According to this man, who authored "The Prince", a ruler should do whatever is necessary to maintain power and it is often better to be feared than loved.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
Developed by Johann Gutenberg, this device helped drastically increase the flow of information during the Renaissance.
What is the moveable type printing press?
This was the capital of the Byzantine Empire which is now known as Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
This ancient American culture is famous for living in City-States, growing corn, and creating an extremely accurate calendar based on the movement of the stars. They also mysteriously disappeared for no known reason.
Who are the Mayans?
This British King chose to break from the Catholic Church when they wouldn't give him an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Who is Henry VIII?
The over reaches of Absolutism led to the pushback of the Scientific Revolution and this other thought based movement which meant that people were applying logic and reason to government?
What is the Enlightenment?
Textiles were the first to modernize using steam powered turbines in this revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This area was known as the "Powder Keg" of Europe and was the location of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?