Unit 1-2
What writing system did the Egyptians create?
hieroglyphs
The _____________ made it easier and cheaper for books to be created
printing press
What was the Scientific Revolution?
A time period where machines slowly began to take the place of jobs that people and animals once did.
Hitlers final solution was called:
The Holocaust
Use of violence against people and/or property for forced change in society or government is called?
Terrorism
What is it called when a ruler is favored by heaven?
Mandate of Heaven
The fall of this city in 1453 caused Europeans to search for new trade routes to Asia
Constantinople
What was the Reign of Terror?
Was a period of wide spread violence in France, thousands were put to death
What 2 superpowers emerged after World War ll?
Soviet Union and the United States
What event brought the US into World War 2?
Pearl Harbor
What trading route helped with spreading the plaque?
The Silk Road
Martin Luther's 95 Thesis was protesting what?
The selling of indulgences
Who held political power in feudal Japan?
The Shogun
The policy aimed to stop the spread of communism is called:
Containment
The form of segregation in South Africa that did not allow any non-white individuals to vote or have any contacts with any whites was called:
Apartheid
The Sumerians created what writing system?
Cuneiform
What is the Middle Passage
The trade route from Africa to the Americas where ships carried mainly slaves
Who believed that the responsibility of government is to protect its people?
John Locke
What was the plan that the US had to help provide aid to countries recovering from World War ll?
Marshall Plan
The main objective of D-Day was to what?
Open up a second front in Europe
What type of medieval society had a mutual relationship between lord and vassal?
Western European Feudalism
Who broke away from the Catholic Church in Rome after the Pope refused to grant him a divorce, and led to the formation of the Anglican Church?
Henry Vlll
What German leader thought German should fight wars to achieve unification and greatness?
Otto Von Bismark
What was the reasoning behind the creation of the United Nations?
To create an international peacekeeping organization
Which of the following was the group responsible for the Russian Revolution?
The Bolsheviks