Ancient Greece
A city-state that was known for its strict military lifestyle and rivalry with Athens.
What is Sparta?
A code of honor followed by knights that emphasized bravery, loyalty, and protection of the weak.
What is Chivarly?
This Italian city, home to the Medici family, is widely considered The birth place of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
This energy source was used to power factories, trains, and steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
What is Coal?
In 1803, the United States doubled its sizes by buying this vast territory from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Is know as the king of the gods, and he ruled Mount Olympus and wielded a lightning bolt.
Who is Zeus?
Large stone fortresses with moats, towers, and draw bridges.
What are Castles?
This Renaissance master painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo de Vinci?
This machine, improved by James Watt, became a symbol of industrial progress.
What is the Steam Engine?
Abraham Lincoln delivered this proclamation in 1863, declared enslaved people in Confederate territory to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A philosopher that is know as the teacher of Pluto and known for saying, ”the unexamined life is not worth living.”
Who is Socrates?
This deadly disease, also called the Black Death, killed millions in Europe during 14th century.
What was the Bubonic Plague?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the spread of knowledge across Europe.
What is the Printing Press?
This industry, involving cloth and fabric production, was the first to industrialize.
What is the Textile Industry?
Completed in 1914, this waterway connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and revolutionized global shipping.
What is the Panama Canal?
A long conflict between Athen and Sparta that was recorded by the historian Thucydides.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
This system divided society into kings, nobles, knights, and peasants based on land loyalty, and labor.
What is Feudalism?
The Renaissance writer penned the Prince, a famous political guidebook about ruling with power and practicality.
Who is Niccoló Machiavelli?
Often dangerous and exhausting, these workplaces employed many women and children during early industrialization.
What are factories/mills?
This U.S president is the only one to have served four terms in office.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A temple on the Acropolis that was dedicated to Athena, and is considered the finest example of Classical Greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
These Christian military expeditions aimed to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control between the 11th and 13th centuries.
What were the Crusades?
This philosophy, emphasizing the value and potential of human beings, became a core intellectual movement of the Renaissanc.
What is Humanism?
This economic system, defined by private ownership and profit-driven markets, grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution.
What is Capitalism?
The 1846-1848 conflict the resulted in the United States gaining present day California, New Mexico, and Arizona.
What is the Mexican-American War?