Cold War
The two main superpowers in the Cold War.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This civilization built pyramids along the Nile River
What is Ancient Egypt?
This 1066 battle secured Norman control of England under William the Conqueror.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
This empire, based in Anatolia, captured Constantinople in 1453 and expanded into southeastern Europe.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This 19th-century country is widely considered the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
The war in East Asia from 1950-1953 between the communist North and the Capitalist South.
What is the Korean War?
This Roman leader was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This West African empire, centered along the Niger River, became wealthy through control of trans-Saharan trade.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Japanese period was marked by isolation under the Tokugawa shogunate.
What is the Edo Period?
The German leader who used "blood and iron" policies to unify Germany in 1871.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This former French colony was divided into a Communist North and a Capitalist South. This eventually led into a massive Cold War conflict involving the US.
What is Vietnam?
This civilization was home to philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the ancient Sophists.
What is Ancient Greece?
This medieval Islamic caliphate, centered in Baghdad, oversaw a major cultural and scientific flourishing known as the Golden Age.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This Mughal ruler promoted religious tolerance and abolished the jizya tax for non-Muslims
Who is Akbar?
This economic system, associated with Adam Smith, emphasizes free markets and limited government intervention.
What is capitalism?
This 1950s US senator frequently accused Americans of being communists, sparking an era of widespread fear.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This Mesopotamian civilization is credited with developing cuneiform, one of the earliest writing systems.
What is Sumer?
This 6th-century legal compilation, commissioned by a Byzantine emperor, preserved and organized centuries of Roman Law.
What is the Corpus Juris Civilis? (Justinian Code)
This 1648 agreement ended a major European religious conflict and helped establish the concept of state sovereignty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This 1857 uprising against British rule led to the end of the East India Company's autonomy in India
The agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972 that limited each side's number of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
What is SALT I? (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
This ancient Anatolian empire, known for its conflicts with Egypt, is associated with the Battle of Kadesh.
What is the Hittite Empire?
This medieval trade league of Northern European cities dominated commerce in the Baltic and North Seas.
What is the Hanseatic league?
This 16th-century system allowed the Spanish to extract labor and tribute from indigenous populations in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
This 19th-century ideology, emphasized by thinkers like John Stuart Mill, supported individual liberties and representative government.
What is liberalism?