Big Thinkers
English scientist who studied gravity and was one of the first inventors of calculus.
Who is Newton?
This river begins in the Himalaya Mountains and travels 3,000 miles downhill across northern China.
What is the Huang He?
Persian for emperor, like the one who ruled the Mughal Empire.
What is the Shah?
People who work for wages, such as factory workers and manual laborers.
What is the Working Class?
A conflict between 1939 and 1945 that involved all the world's major countries.
What is World War II?
Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.
Who is Galilei?
An Italian merchant who traveled to China and wrote of his travels extensively.
Who is Marco Polo?
In the Middle Ages, a person who was bound to work on a noble's manor.
What is a Serf?
A group of workers who join together to improve wages or working conditions.
What is a Union?
A term used for the battle of words and ideas that developed between the democratic nations of the West and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from about 1945 to 1990.
What is The Cold War?
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec.
Who is Cortes?
The ruler of feudal Japan from the 1100s to the 1800s who, although appointed by the emperor, ruled the country as a military dictator.
Who is the Shogun?
A farming method involving the cutting of trees, then igniting them to provide ash-enriched soil for the planting of crops.
What is the Slash and Burn method?
A class of society that includes professionals and businesspeople that began to grow during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Middle Class?
The largest ancient Greek city-state, located on the southern Peloponnesus.
What is Sparta?
Polish astronomer; established theory of heliocentrism.
Who is Copernicus?
An ancient network of overland trade routes that stretched from China to what is now Iran.
What is the Silk Road?
Soviet revolutionary and dictator who ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953.
Who is Josef Stalin?
A refusal to work as a protest against unfair treatment.
What is a Strike?
Any of the journeys and battles undertaken by European Christians between 1095 and 1270, to win control of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
German philosopher, economist, and socialist.
Who is Marx?
Chinese philosopher who stressed the need to respect tradition.
Who is Confucius?
Greek philosopher who discussed laws, customs, values, and religion with students.
Who was Socrates?
Inventor of the cast-steel plow; now the name of a notable farm vehicle manufacturer.
Who is John Deere?
The extension of a nation's power over other lands by military, political, or economic means.
What is Imperialism?