Early and Classical Civilizations
Early humans were known for these two major life activities before the development of agriculture.
What is hunting and gathering?
This is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion centered on the life, death, and teachings of a man considered the Son of God by its followers.
What is Christianity?
This collection of trade routes helped exhange goods across Asia , through Europe and North Africa through out the middle ages and beyond.
The Silk Road
This Japanese government adopted a policy of isolation from the rest of the world.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
This philosopher criticized capitalism and was concerned about the treatment of the working class. Known for developing ideas that led to Communist governments and socialist programs.
Who is Karl Marx?
This ancient civilization is where democracy originated. It's ideas would create the basis for the Roman Republic and modern democracies.
What is Ancient Greece?
This religion is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion that focuses on the teachings of its founder. Key aspects include the five pillars and its holy book is the Qur'an.
What is Islam?
This government and economic system relied on agriculture, manors, and a hierarchical inherited wealth system with Nobles at the top and Peasants and Serfs on the bottom.
What is the Feudal System?
These revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries were revolts against the aristocracy and taxes.
What were the American and French revolutions?
This style of government was used by leaders like Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini to maintain power by using tactics like heavy police, executions, and suppression of political dissent.
Totalitarianism
This was one of the first written law systems and included the familiar idea of "an eye for an eye"
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
This is a religion and philosophy that focuses on understanding suffering and achieving enlightenment which leads to Nirvana, a state of liberation from the cycle of rebirth.
What is Buddhism?
This was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, cultures, and people between the Old World of Europe, Asia, and Afriaca, and the New World (the Americas) beginning in the late 15th century.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
This was a European intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason, individual liberty, and empirical evidence.
What is the Enlightenment?
This type of warfare was developed during World War I as a strategy to accomadate new forms of war technology such as rapid fire guns, grenades, and airplanes leading to soldiers experiencing "Shellshock" at type of PTSD.
What is Trench Warfare?
In modern Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, these two rivers formed the fertile cresent of Mesopotamia . Which is also known as the "cradle of civilization".
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
A monotheistic Abrahamic religion that is one of the world's oldest. It focuses on a covenant between God and his chosen people.
What is Judaism?
This instiution was the most powerful during the middle ages in Europe.
This invention in the modern period would make books cheaper, increase literacy, and challenge institutional authority.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities ultimately leading to the end of the Pacific conflict and the end to World War II.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
These ancient cities were examples of the early indus river valley civilization. Known for urban planning.
What is Mohenjo-Darro and Harappa cites?
This belief system is a philosophy and ethical system that focuses on filiel piety (respect for elders) and loyalty.
What is Confucianism?
This was a part of the journey that enslaved people were forced to take from Africa to the Americas. It was one of the most brutal parts of the Transatlantic trade route.
The Middle Passage.
The scientific theory that placed the sun in the center of the solar system. It was developed by Copernicus and would inspire the work of Galileo and challenge church authority.
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
This was a plan developed by the Americans to help Europe rebuild after World War II
What is The Marshall Plan?