World History 1
Which strategy used during WWI led to a stalemate?
Trench warfare
Martin Luther disagreed with the Church's practice of...
(Indulgence)- letting people pay to forgive their sins
Columbus accidentally "discovered" America when he was hoping to...
Find a quicker route to India/Asia
This scientist created laws of motion and is credited with beginning the enlightenment.
Sir Isaac Newton
This philosophical movement emphasized "natural rights" and the idea that reason and logic, rather than tradition or religion, should govern human affairs.
The Enlightenment.
In this time period during the French Revolution, Robespierre and the Jacobins executed or imprisoned large numbers of enemies.
Reign of Terror
Who founded the Yuan dynasty in China in the thirteenth century?
The Mongols
This was the name for an era of European history in which privateers and adventurers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and others set sail in search of "New" lands.
Age of Exploration.
This was the reason Henry VIII of England created his own church.
He wanted to get a divorce
The Atlantic Slave Trade started after this group, initially used by colonial powers as a slave labor force, began rapidly dying off from European diseases.
Indigenous/Native Americans
The "A" in the "MAIN" Causes of WWI acronym stands for...
Alliances
This is a word (and MAIN cause of WWI) which means an intense pride in one's country OR the desire of a given ethnic group to form a country corresponding to that identity.
Nationalism
This was the name for the exchange of people, goods & diseases between the Old world & New World.
Columbian exchange; OR Triangle Trade.
This church, created by Henry VIII, was called...
The Church of England; OR the Anglican Church.
This is a Spanish word for "Conqueror" and described the soldiers of Hernan Cortes.
Conquistador
This is the increased buildup of arms and an intense glorification of the military in a given society.
Militarism.
African leader known for his great wealth and contributions to the growth of Islamic scholarship and culture in the Mali Empire.
Mansa Musa
Name of era in Japanese history when Japan ended Feudalism and adopted Western style government, military, education and industrialization but maintaining their Japanese culture.
Meiji Restoration
During the reformation the Church was divided into...
The Protestant Church and Catholic Church.
This two-word term describes a relationship in which the citizens remain loyal to a government who, in return, provides safety and security.
Social Contract
This man started the reformation.
Martin Luther
This philosophy emphasizes the public ownership of goods, services and the means of production in a society.
Socialism/Communism
This philosophy emphasizes private ownership of land and the means of production, as well as the free exchange of goods and services in a market economy.
Capitalism.
This MAIN cause of WWI refers to the domination of foreign lands by a powerful state far away.
Imperialism.
Which Enlightenment thinker believed that all humans had the right to life, liberty and property?
John Locke