He was the U.S. President most involved in connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
This is when a stronger nation dominates a weaker nation politically, militarily, and/or economically.
What is imperialism?
100
This waterway connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This product helped the British to take down Qing dynasty China.
What is opium?
100
Name the three monotheistic religions that originated in the Middle East.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
200
He was a general during Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain, and later the country’s military dictator.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
200
This 1823 U.S. foreign policy declared that the western hemisphere was closed to European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
This is an economic zone in which a foreign nation claims exclusive trading rights.
What is a sphere of influence?
200
This is a tax on foreign imports.
What is a tariff?
200
This movie was far and away the number one premiere of the past week (we’re looking for the actual title here).
What is Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
300
FLASHBACK: He started the Protestant Reformation with his 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
300
This conflict was led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists and attempted to end western influence in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
300
This 1904 U.S. foreign policy declared the U.S. was to be the international police power of the western hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
Ukiyo-e is a type of this.
What is art?
300
The trade of these two products formed the basis of Mansa Musa’s massive wealth.
What are gold and salt?
400
He was known as the Robin Hood of Mexican revolutionaries, hunted down by the American government.
Who is Francisco "Pancho" Villa?
400
This conflict allowed the United States to take the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, all the while helping the Cubans gain their independence.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
This conflict was started by a man named Hong who claimed to be Jesus’s younger brother.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
400
These were the two major changes that occurred in Japan during the Meiji Era.
What are modernization and industrialization?
400
Cairo is the capital city of this modern country.
What is Egypt?
500
He was the U.S. Commodore who brought his modern ships into Tokyo Bay.
Who is Matthew Perry?
500
This is the term for a Latin American military dictator.
What is a caudillo?
500
This is the term for adding territory to the control of an empire.
What is annexation?
500
This is the name for the feudal period of Japanese history.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
500
Put these periods/events of European history in the correct order: Enlightenment, Middle Ages, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Renaissance.