Enlightenment
This Enlightenment thinker was known as the "Father of Liberalism" and emphasized natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This revolution began in 1775 and led to the creation of the United States.
What is the American Revolution?
This Italian explorer is credited with discovering the New World in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas across Europe.
What is the Printing Press?
This U.S. president appears on the $5 bill and delivered the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Many changes and revolutions inspired by the Enlightenment happened in this century.
What are the 1700s (or 18th century)?
The storming of this prison on July 14, 1789, marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
These three G-words were huge motivations for Europeans during the Age of Exploration.
What are gold, glory, and God?
The Renaissance began in this modern day European country.
What is Italy?
The Titanic famously sank after hitting this in 1912.
What is an iceberg?
This idea, named by Montesquieu, inspired the United States to split the government into three branches.
What are the "separation of powers"?
This era came after the beheading of France's King and Queen and saw thousands of executions.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa and get to Calicut, India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This Renaissance movement emphasized human potential, the study of classical texts, and a focus on subjects like history, philosophy, and literature.
What is humanism?
After an object crashed near Roswell, NM in 1947, the U.S. military first claimed it was a weather balloon, but many believed it was actually one of these.
What is a UFO?
Enlightenment thinkers criticized this type of government, in which kings and queens held absolute power.
What is "absolute monarchy"?
This type of government was adopted by both the French and the Americans after their revolutions in the late 1700s?
What is a republic (or democracy)?
This modern day South American country speaks Portuguese because of early colonization there.
What is Brazil?
This theory, put forth by Galileo, claimed that the SUN was actually in the center of our solar system, not the Earth.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This deadly pandemic wiped out nearly a third of Europe's population in the 1300s.
What is the Black Death (or bubonic plague)?
This idea describes how citizens must give up some rights in order for the government to protect their rights.
What is the "social contract"?
This modern country was home to the only successful slave revolution in history.
What is Haiti?
This Viking is believed to have reached North America around the year 1000, centuries before Columbus.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This Church was created after King Henry VIII separated from the Catholic church to get his marriage annuled.
What is the Church of England?
During WW2, scientists worked secretly on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico to develop this weapon.
What is the atomic bomb?