Renaissance/Reformation
This country is considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
He reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This Enlightenment thinker believed the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth rotated around it.
Who is Copernicus?
This invention improved steam power and transformed factories.
What is the steam engine?
His assassination sparked WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
In 1513, this explorer landed in North America, now known as Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
This 1776 document declared the American Independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the rapid movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization or industrialization?
This type of warfare defined the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
This monk started the Protestant Reformation by posting the 95 theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
He led the first crew to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This French general became emperor after the French Revolution.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This thinker believed all of history was a class struggle.
Who was Karl Marx?
He became dictator of Germany in 1933.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
What is humanism?
This empire in the Americas was conquered by the Spanish.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This is the main theme of Newton's book Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
What is gravity?
This thinker divided the human psyche into three parts.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In 1944 Allies invaded this Northern part of France and is known as this?
What is D-Day?
This English king broke from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
The Portuguese explorer was the first to sail up the coast of Africa and reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This event began with the storming of the Bastille.
What is the French Revolution?
This economic system encourages private ownership and competition.
What is capitalism?
The U.S. entered WWII after this attack in 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?