prejudice for or against someone or something; unfairness
What is bias?
100
the world’s first writing system, created by Sumerians. Wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
100
a series of wars carried out by European Christians to gain control of the Holy Land from Muslim rulers.
What are the Crusades?
100
Italian explorer, sailing for Spain looking for a western route to Asia, reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
economic system where the government owns the means of production and directs the economy. Created by Karl Marx.
What is communism?
200
a source written or created by an eyewitness to or participant in an event
What is a primary source?
200
earliest complete law code. Written by a Babylonian king. 282 laws dealing with everything from trade and theft to injury and murder. Harsh.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
French soldier and national heroine; rallied French troops during the 100 Years War and was burned at the stake for heresy.
Who is Joan of Arc?
200
largest forced migration in history; forcible removal of approximately 10 million Africans to the Americas to serve as laborers.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
200
an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere; linked to carbon emissions and resulting in extreme weather and sea-level rise.
What is climate change?
300
a relationship where one event leads to another event or events happening
What is cause and effect?
300
a 4,000 year old hero story that tells the tale of a king of Uruk who, through a series of adventures and tragedies, comes to accept his own mortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
a terrible outbreak of bubonic plague that swept through Europe and China, beginning in 1347. Both lost at least ⅓ of their population.
What is the Black Death?
300
Islands where Columbus first landed in 1492, convinced he has found Asia
What are the Bahamas?
300
the process by which trade and culture link together countries around the world.
What is globalization?
400
also known as the Old Stone Age; a prehistoric period that lasted from about 2.5 million years ago to approximately 8,500 B.C.
What is the Paleolithic era?
400
Developed cities; Organized government; Formalized religion; Division of labor; Social hierarchy; Record keeping & writing; and The arts
What are the 7 characteristics of civilization?
400
a "humpbacked" English king whose skeleton was found under a city parking lot in 2012
Who is Richard III?
400
Native Americans from present day Central America who created the most complete writing system in pre-Columbian America, using glyphs (symbols)
Who are the Mayans?
400
Stalingrad and Midway
What are the major turning points of WWII in Europe and the Pacific?
500
the time period before written records; most of human history
What is pre-history?
500
Gilgamesh's friend and companion. A wild man sent by the gods to stop Gilgamesh, but who became his best friend, and whose death later sent Gilgamesh off the deep end.
Who is Enkidu?
500
A Frankish king crowned by the Pope "Holy Roman Emperor," the first since Rome fell 300 years before. He spread Christianity across Western Europe. Established conflict between church and monarch--who's the boss?
Who is Charlemagne?
500
Spanish conquistador who kidnapped and killed Montezuma and conquered the Aztecs
Who is Cortez?
500
economic idea popularized by Adam Smith that markets free from government interference benefit everyone.