History Basics
An organized story of the past, it is the goal of historians to create.
What is a narrative?
This trade route was a major source of wealth for imperial China?
What is the Silk Road?
Martin Luther created this document as a protest against what he saw as the corruption in the Church. It would eventually lead to the Reformation.
What are the 95 Theses?
He is considered the father of the scientific revolution, as well as the father of optics, the laws of motion and modern calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This revolution forced the British Empire to refocus its efforts on Asia and Africa, and spread Enlightenment ideas into Europe.
What is the American Revolution?
A source created at or near an event by an eye-witness
He is the central prophet and founder of Islam
Who is Mohammed?
What are Indulgences?
A philosophical movement that embraced secularism, human rights and rationalism. Its members included such greats as John Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau...and Hobbes.
What is the Enlightenment?
A type of war in which a smaller force uses hit-and-run tactics and assassination to wear down a larger occupying army. Spain first used it against France.
What is guerrilla warfare?
What is causation?
This holy war to capture Jerusalem for Christianity led to the final collapse of the Arab-run Caliphate and the rise of Turkish control of the Middle East
What are the Crusades?
This Renaissance philosophy which includes the glorification of the human mind, an emphasis on goodness for its own sake, and which values learning as much as possible was an important foundation of Reformation thinking.
What is Humanism?
This was a new idea as of the 15th Century. It held that your membership in an ethnicity or nationality was the most important aspect of your identity.
What is nationalism?
After defeating Napoleon, the Europeans came up with this- the idea that if every country has a dangerous army and defense, it will stop new wars from happening.
What is balance of power?
This is how a historian chooses when a particular historical event or era begins and ends.
What is periodization?
This Chinese philosophy, which emphasizes discipline, and the study of history and tradition, dominated China during the Middle Ages.
What is Confucianism?
What is the Counter-Reformation?
This type of person holds to far-left political ideas and seeks to fundamentally overthrow society, with violence if necessary.
What is a radical?
This document declared that the 3rd Estate was now a National Assembly, the legal government of France
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
A type of source in which a historian uses multiple, well-cited primary sources to describe an event.
What is a secondary source?
Because the Quran forbids forced conversion of Christians and Jews, the Caliphate charged this heavy tax on them instead.
What is the Dhimmi?
Prior to the Reformation, Church power and authority was weakened by this extended period in which there were two popes in Europe instead of one.
What is the Avignon Papacy?
This is the idea that a country has the right to make its own laws, and policies without the interference of other countries around it. It came from the Peace of Westphalia.
What is State Sovereignty?
In the wake of Napoleon's defeat, the European allies created this alliance, to ensure that no Revolutions or conquering dictators could happen in Europe again.
What is the Concert of Europe?