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He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

100
Belief in only one god.
What is monotheism?
100

Written by Martin Luther as a list of complaints against the Catholic Church.

What is the 95 Thesis?

100
Urban center that controlled the immediate regions surrounding it.
What is the city-state?
100
Enslaved children of Christian subjects turned into fighting warriors for the Ottomans.
What are Janissaries?
200

Totalitarian ruler of Italy leading into World War 2.

Who is Benito Mussolini?

200

Religion founded in India and majority religion still today

What is Hinduism?

200

The Treaty that ended WWI

What is Treaty of Versailles?

200
A government ruled by a hereditary ruler.
What is monarchy?
200
Movement focused on the role of mankind in relation to the government, ideas which greatly influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Enlightenment?
300

He was the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty and a grandson to the founder of the Mongol Empire

Who is Kublai Khan?

300

The religion of the Swahili people along Africa's East Coast 

What is Islam?

300

The two social classes in Japan whose status was diminished during the Tokugawa Shogunate

Who are the Samurai and Daimyo?

300
European social, economic, and political system of the Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
300

The first industry to become mechanized during the Industrial Revolution

What is the cotton textile industry?

400

He was the Marxist Leader of the Bolshevik Party

Who is Vladimir Lenin?

400

Syncretic belief system that blended Hinduism and Islam in India

What is the Sikhism?

400
Beginning in 1478 by Isabella and Ferdinand, this was the banish of all non-believers in defense of Catholicism.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
400
System of which provided peninsulares with land and a specified number of native laborers;similar to feudalism in Europe.
What is the Encomienda system?
400

This was the time agricultural producers used new techniques and technologies to rapidly increase food production during the 20th century

What is the Green Revolution?

500

His nickname was the "Sun King" and he built the Palace of Versailles in France and is an example of an absolute ruler.

Who is Louis XIV?

500

A belief system in East Asia that emphasizes family, respect of elders, and moral behavior

What is Confucianism?

500

Agreement between Spain and Portugal facilitated by the Catholic Pope which divided the world and determined which state could conquer which territory

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

500
A policy of forming and maintaining empires, as by subjugating territories.
What is Imperialism?
500
A battle between the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist United States that lasted from 1945 to about 1991.
What is the Cold War?