Colonization
Art & Music
Social Order
Government
Potpourri
100
Name the city and continent. Why did we study this?
Tenochtitlan, North America. Central location of Aztec Empire, conquered by Hernan Cortes
100
Why does this painting represent the Renaissance? (who painted this?)
Depth, perspective, realistic proportions (Botticelli)
100
What is this and how did it change societal order in Europe? (1517)
Martin Luther - 95 Theses, challenging the Catholic Church & corruption, liberating faith and interpretation
100
Why do Americans not like tax?
The British taxed them to the nines without their input (consent, representation) (Stamp Act, Tea Act...)
100
Who, what, when?
Henry VIII, creation of the Church of England, 1500s (1534)
200
This empire taking over this city was a cause for Spain to send ships exploring out into the Atlantic Ocean for a different trade route to Asia.
Ottomans (Muslim) taking over Byzantine (Christian) (Constantinople)
200
Who painted this? Convince me it's important
Fibonacci spiral? Woman unknown? Cheeky smile? Sfumato? It was stolen?
200
Name the author / document & country / event
"Mothers, daughters, sisters [and] representatives of the nation demand to be constituted into a national assembly. Believing that ignorance, omission, or scorn for the rights of woman are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments, [the women] have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of woman"
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women, France, 1791
200
From 1642-1651, England had a civil war. What was the outcome?
The King (Charles I) was beheaded, short period of rule by Oliver Cromwell, establishment of constitutional monarchy
200
Who? What?
Isaac Newton - Calculus, gravitational pull, orbits of planets are eclipses
300
What does this image represent?
The "Columbian Exchange" - Triangular trade route Europe - Africa - Americas - Humans, raw materials, manufactured goods
300
German composer, broke patterns in classical music composition, Symphony no. 9, volatile, went deaf
Beethoven
300
She lost her head because of her inability to empathise with the lower classes. (Qu'ils mangent de la brioche! - Let them eat cake!)
Marie Antoinette
300
Who? What? Why?
Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor, First French Empire, 1804, beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (Jacques Louis David)
300
This man led a wave of independence movements across Latin America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia)
Simon Bolivar
400
Name two primary resources (raw materials) that were labour intensive from the Americas
Sugar, tobacco, cotton, coffee
400
Which Ninja Turtle?
Donatello
400
Name the author and what he is criticizing
"It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
Karl Marx - Capitalism, Industrial Revolution
400
Name the person (or country) that embodied the ideals of equality for all in the only successful slave rebellion in the Americas
Toussaint Louverture - Haïti
400
Who said "the conditions of society ought to be regulated solely by those who come together to form it"?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
500
Two advancements that made the colonization of Africa by Europeans possible in the late 1800s
Discovery of quinine (fight malaria) and steam engines (boats to navigate rivers, build railroads)
500
This city was the center for art and architecture during the Renaissance
Florence
500
When, where, what?
"Whereas divers Persons are holden in Slavery within divers of His Majesty’s Colonies, and it is just and expedient that all such Persons should be manumitted and set free, and that a reasonable Compensation should be made to the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves for the Loss which they will incur by being deprived of their Right to such Services..."
Slavery Abolition Act, Britain (& colonies), 1833/4
500
This drug, pushed by Britain, undercut the authority of the Qing dynasty, and led to an unequal power balance between the two countries
Opium
500
When, where, what?
1917, Russia, Russian Revolution