Riots
Movies
Names
Conceptual Grab Bag
100

Famous French Riot/Protest occurred in 1358. The peasants against the upper class.

What is the Jacquerie?

100

Movie depicting a famous Roman slave revolt

What is Spartacus?

100

Targets of the violence on St. Bartholomew's Day

Who are the Huguenots?

100

Hasdai Crescas wrote this account of the anti-Jewish riots in Spain in the late 14th c

What is the Chronicle of 1391?

200
Wave of Catholic-led violence towards Huguenots in 1572

What is St. Bartholomew's Day?

200

Educated and rebellious lead of Agora, dies at the end.

Who is Hypatia?

200

Jewish Philosopher who described the riots against jews in Alexandria

Who is Philo?

200

A movement led by the medieval church, and later by civil authorities, to protect ecclesiastical property and women, priests, pilgrims, merchants, and other noncombatants from violence

What is the Peace of God

300

in 1921 mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District of this city 

What is Tulsa, OK?

300

Uprising on Russian battleship after morale in Navy was extremely low. Set off by maggot infested food. Ship landed in Odessa Harbor, where rioting began against Nicholas II. Nicholas II was then deposed 10 years later in Revolution of 1917

What is Battleship Potemkin

300

Anti-semitic Roman emperor at the time of the Alexandria riots

Who is Gaius Caligula?

300

This parliamentary act from 1714 declared any group over 12 people to be unlawfully assembled

What is the Riot Act?

400

In this court case (later overturned on appeal) a man was charged with inciting a riot in College Park because there was no proof he had stabbed the victim. 

What is Schlamp v. Canales?

400

[not movie related] This concept refers to individuals’ subjective sense of the risk that their ethnic culture could be changed and the resulting concern and worry about the development and survival of his/her ethnic cultural heritage 

What is cultural anxiety?

400

This demographer's work changed how we understand the family makeup of medieval Britain

Who is Peter Laslett?

400

Posted by Martin Luther, this list spoke out against the indulgences of the Catholic church (pay them to get into heaven!!==bad)

What are the 95 Theses?

500

Refers to the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919.

What is Red Summer?

500

This philosopher and revolutionary's ideas of base and superstructure help us understand the economy's influence on society/riots

Who is Karl Marx?

500

This concept implies that when someone tells a story or writes a history they are not objective--they use familiar narrative structures. 

What is framing? 

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