Ancient Civilizations
pre 400
pre 400
10-year-long war in Greek Myth, started because Paris stole Helen from her husband Menelaus of Sparta. featured the Greek heroes Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, and Odysseus.
What is the Trojan War?
A sickness that swept across Eurasia on trade routes. killed an estimated 1/3 of Europe's population.
document issued by the Pope that divided the "New World" between Spain and Portugal. Spain got the west and Portugal got the east.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Term widely used by historians to describe the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during an era known as "New Imperialism"
Started with the Berlin Conference.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after the ending of WW2. Characterized by proxy wars, propaganda, and a nuclear arms race.
What is the Cold war?
Built by the first emperor of the Qin. He wanted to be buried with an army so that he would have soldiers in the afterlife.
What is the terracotta army?
Established the largest contiguous land empire in history. In the first ever recorded use of biological warfare, they catapulted plague victims over the walls of cities during siege. Established by Genghis Khan.
What is the Mongols?
Means 're-birth.' Period of artistic, scientific, and cultural change as Europe left the Middle Ages. rediscovery of the classics of ancient Greece and Rome Started in Italy.
Characterized by artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.
What is the Rennaissance?
Political revolution in Japan starting in 1868, rapidly modernized and westernized Japan in an effort to keep out Western powers. Tokyo was set as the capitol of Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Invasion of Egypt by the United Kingdom, France, and Israel to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser who had recently nationalized a major shipping lane that connected the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. It was a failure on the side of the UK, France, and Isreal and ended the UK's role as a world power.
What is the Suez Canal Crisis
One of the world's oldest cities, part of the Harrapan Civilization. Considered the most advanced city of its time. Name translated as 'the mound of the dead'
What is Mohenjo Daro? OR What is the Indus River valley?
Born in Mecca. Established the religion of Islam.
What is the Prophet Muhamed?
last Dynasty before the Korean Empire. Encouraged the adoption of Confucian ideals into Korean society. Consolidated rule over the Korean peninsula and saw the height of classical Korean culture, trade, literature, and science and technology.
What is the Joseon Dynasty?
Political movement focused on expanded voter rights particularly in England and the United States. In the USA it was started by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
An organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. Organized in California in 1966 in the wake of the assassination of Malcom X. Its original intent was to protect Black neighborhoods from police brutality.
What is the Black Panthers?
Known as the heretic King, he and his wife tried to replace Ancient Egypt's polytheistic religion with monotheism and the worship of a single god called Aten.
Empire in western South America. Capitol City was Cusco. Notable for its intricate weaving, extensive road and trade system, and the city of Machu Pichu.
What is the Incan Empire?
military alliance of Lutheran princes against the Holy Roman Empire. Originally, established for the purpose of protecting Lutheranism in their lands after the Reformation, it also built a small military to confiscate catholic church lands, expel bishops, and spread Lutheranism.
What is the Schmalkaldic League?
The overthrow of the Russian Imperial family. replaced the Tsar with Bolshevik leaders. Led by Vladimir Lenin. Forced Russia out of World War I. Established communism in Russia.
What is the Russian Revolution?
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Negotiated with State President F. W. de Klerk the end of apartheid in South Africa, bringing peace to a racially divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world.
What is Nelson Mandela?
People group that crossed into North America via the Bering Strait land bridge. Settled in the northwestern and western parts of the continent. They were known for their mammoth hunting and are identified by their distinctive spearheads.
What is the Clovis People/Culture?
Confederation of five indigenous nations the Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Oneida in the northeastern United States. Fought with the British during the American Revolution.
What is the League of the Iroquois/Iroquois Confederacy/Haudenosaunee?
1680, a revolution against Spanish religious, economic, and political institutions imposed upon the Pueblos. It is the only successful indigenous uprising against a colonizing power in North America.
What is the Pueblo Revolts
A successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue. Led by Toussaint Louverture. The revolution was the only slave uprising that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery and ruled by non-white people and formerly enslaved people.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Groups of white and African American civil rights activists that participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Sought to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities was unconstitutional.
What is the Freedom Rides?