RENAISSANCE / REFORMATION
What idea during the Renaissance focused on questioning and learning about the world?
Humanism
What exchange moved plants, animals, and diseases between continents?
Columbian Exchange
What revolution introduced machines and factories?
Industrial Revolution
What was the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994?
Rwandan Genocide
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
Containment
What was the main method used during the Scientific Revolution?
Observation and experimentation
What system brought enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
What did industrialization increase for countries?
Wealth / power
During the Rwandan Genocide, these two groups were in conflict.
Hutu and Tutsi
This event brought the U.S. into WWII.
Pearl Harbor
What document did Martin Luther write to criticize the Church?
95 Theses
What was a major result of the slave trade in the Americas? (Plantation Economy)
More reliance on enslaved labor
After WWII, which part of the world controlled most wealth? (Which hemisphere?)
Northern Hemisphere
This organization was criticized for not acting quickly enough in Rwanda.
United Nations
This economic system is based on private ownership and profit.
Capitalism
What meeting clarified Catholic beliefs after the Reformation?
Council of Trent
What term describes global movement of goods and people?
Global Exchange
What was the main reason the Northern Hemisphere controlled most of the world’s wealth after World War II?
Industrialization
This U.S. department was created after 9/11 to protect against terrorism.
Homeland Security
This thinker believed in natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
What practice did Protestants criticize involving paying for forgiveness? (What was the Catholic Church selling?)
Indulgences
Why did Europeans build colonies in tropical areas?
To make money from cash crops
Who is Samuel Slater?
Corporate Spy: This man is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” for bringing textile technology to the United States.
WHo was involved in the Cold War?
Russia & USA
This event started World War I.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand