Europe
He was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BCE, ending the Roman Republic.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This major trade route connected China to the Mediterranean and facilitated cultural exchange.
What is the Silk Road?
This powerful civilization built Machu Picchu and ruled much of the Andes.
What is the Inca/Incan Empire?
This ancient civilization along the Nile River was known for pyramids and pharaohs.
What is Egypt?
This civilization developed a complex calendar and writing system in what is now southern Mexico and Central America.
Who are the Maya/Mayan Empire?
This series of religious wars was aimed at capturing the Holy Land from Muslim control.
What are the Crusades?
This Mongol leader created the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
This European country colonized Brazil.
What is Portugal?
This king of Mali made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the 14th century.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This English colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent settlement in what is now the U.S.
What is Jamestown?
The invention of this machine by Gutenberg helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas.
What is the Printing Press?
This country in Southeast Asia was colonized by the French and later divided into North and South during the Cold War.
What/Who is Vietnam?
This system forced Indigenous people to work in mines and on plantations.
What is the Encomienda System?
This monotheistic religion spread across North Africa and into West Africa by trade and conquest.
What is Islam?
This 19th-century independence movement led to the creation of Mexico.
What is the Mexican War of Independence?
This absolute monarch of Russia modernized the country and expanded its territory.
Who is Peter the Great?
This economic plan in China aimed to rapidly industrialize the country in the 1950s.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The independence movements in Latin America were partly inspired by this 18th-century European event.
What is the French Revolution?
This Zulu leader resisted British colonization in southern Africa.
Who is Shaka Zulu?
This Mexican-American labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers.
Who is César Chávez?
This event in 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War in Europe.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
This war in the early 20th century marked Japan’s rise as a global power after it defeated a major European empire.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This crisis-hit South American country experienced hyperinflation and a mass exodus in the 2010s.
What is Venezuela?
This tragic 1994 genocide occurred between the Hutu and Tutsi in this African country.
What is Rwanda?
This act passed in the U.S. in 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, or gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act?