Civilizations
The first set of written laws.
This religion is associated with the Eightfold Path, the Four Noble Truths, and the concept of nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
The name for the journey of slaves to the New World from Africa?
What is the Middle Passage?
The movement in Europe with the central belief that people should give up their natural rights to their rulers.
What is the Enlightenment?
The word for European nations conquering other lands, making them into colonies, and controlling their economies.
What is imperialism?
The two rivers the first civilization, Mesopotamia, formed around.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
This Ancient Greek city placed an emphasis on military service.
What is Sparta?
The main reason Martin Luther was dissatisfied with the Roman Catholic Church
What is the selling of Indulgences?
What is Napoleon?
The economic policy where businesses operate with little government regulation
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
The Ancient Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
The wars fought between Christians and Muslims over control of the Holy Land in the Middle East.
What is the Crusades?
Johannes Gutenberg, King Henry VIII, and Martin Luther directly influenced this movement in Europe.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
During the French Revolution, when the members of the third estate were forced to find a new meeting place, they made a pledge called the __________________, to continue their meeting until they had written a new, just constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The increase in machine-made goods beginning in England during the 1700s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
In traditional Chinese culture, this philosophy had the greatest influence on the development of social order and political organization.
After the western Roman Empire fell to Germanic invaders in the 5th century A.D., the eastern part of the empire eventually became known as the
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Ferdinand Magellan's is considered a turning point in history because...
What is one of his ships was the first to circumnavigate Earth?
The time period in France where Robespierre had over 40,000 people executed by the Guillotine for being enemies of the revolution
What is the Reign of Terror?
After 1880, European nations sought colonies in Africa primarily because the Europeans were
What is competing of raw materials and markets?
The revolution that is considered a turning point in human history due to the domestication of plants and animals.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This group used the stirrup, skilled horsemanship, and siege warfare techniques to conquer much of Asia and part of Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries.
What is the Mongols?
The term that is defined as a Renaissance movement characterized by independent thought and a renewed interest in classical Greek and Roman culture?
What is humanism?
The document influenced by the Enlightenment that people have natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The four MAIN causes of WWI.
What is militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?