Early Civilizations
This is Rome's First Written Code of Laws
What is the Twelve Tables?
This social system in the Middle Ages meant most people didn't own anything--it was all rented from the social class above you.
What is Feudalism?
This intellectual and philosophical movement valued knowledge gained through rationalism, and was concerned with a range of social and political ideals, such as natural law and separation of church and state
What is the Enlightenment?
This former slave colony was the first independent nation in all of Latin America
What is Haiti?
This warfare tactic involved shelling the enemy with heavy artillery, then sending thousands of soldiers “over the top” and across “no man’s land," to attack the enemy's fortifications
What is Trench Warfare?
This city, which used a lottery system to "elect" assembly members, is considered the birthplace of democracy
Athens
This English Revolution, which took place from 1688-1689, got its name from the fact that it involved no violence or bloodshed.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This social ideal argued that "a man can do all things if he will," and encouraged people to embrace all knowledge and develop skills in as many things as possible
What is a Renaissance Man?
This was the first successful national revolution to put Enlightenment ideas into practice.
What is the American Revolution?
This unofficial peace between British and German soldiers was so unexpected and unlikely, it was considered a myth or a fairytale for a very long time
What is the 1914 Christmas Truce?
This man is called "The Father of Athenian Democracy"
Who is Cleisthenes?
Pope Urban II launched the first one of these, in the name of reclaiming the holy land of Jerusalem from the control of the Islamic Empire.
What are the Crusades?
This scientist waited until he was on his deathbed to publish his findings on the orbits of celestial bodies, knowing that his arguments would label him a heretic against the Catholic Church
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This perfect society that Robespierre dreamed of was a world built on rational ideals and democracy.
What is the Republic of Virtue?
This pandemic is the deadliest in recorded history, killing about 50 million people between 1918 and 1919.
What is the Spanish Flu?
After a popular revolt overthrew King Tarquin the Proud, Ancient Rome adopted this style as their new government.
What is a Representative Republic?
English nobles forced the King John to sign this document in 1215, establishing written law and limiting the King's power
What is the Magna Carta?
This English writer and philosopher was a founder for modern women’s rights movements for political change and educational equality.
Who was Mary Wollstonecroft?
When King Louis XVI tried to use force to silence the protests of the 3rd Estate, 8,000 Parisians responded by arming themselves in this iconic event on July 14th.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This battle was the largest on the Western Front, and is sometimes accredited with turning the tide of the war, but took four and a half months to end and gained very little land for the allies
What is the Battle of Somme?
When Christians in Rome refused to offer pagan sacrifices, and did not lie, flee, or forge documents, they were often subjected to brutal punishments, including death, under Roman authority--making them this.
What is a Martyr?
This medieval empire covered 5.8 million square miles at its largest extent, more than twice as large as the Roman Empire at its height, making it the largest empire yet.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
This genre of writing uses humor, imitation, and mockery in order to critique society--and it was very popular during the Enlightenment.
What is Satire?
As a response to the conditions of the Industrial revolution, this social movement proposed a new economic and political structure that favored equality and uplifting impoverished workers
What is Socialism?
This ethnic minority within the Ottoman Empire was accused of supporting Russia by the Pro-German government, to excuse the empire punishing them for seeking reforms and representation.
Who are the Armenians?