Two important ideas given to us by Ancient Greeks.
What is democracy and the idea of learning through observation?
100
The date that the Renaissance reached its peak.
What is the 1500s?
100
The reasons for rioting in Russia in 1917.
What is millions of soldiers being killed or wounded in WWI and people at home were suffering shortages of food and fuel?
100
An agreement between countries to protect and defend each other.
What is an alliance?
200
A government official who is in charge of relations with other nations.
What is a foreign minister?
200
The way in which Alexander the Great spread Greek ideas.
What is the Greek language, Greek ideas, and a huge empire?
200
The culture that Renaissance scholars and artists looked for inspiration.
What is ancient world of Greek and Roman thinkers?
200
The way in which Lenin used the power of ideas to persuade Russians to follow him.
What is promising poor Russians that everyone would be equal and enjoy a better standards of living to convince them to support communism?
200
The ways in which the people suffered as the result of the industrialization.
What are long hours, low wages, and unsafe conditions?
300
The currency of the European Union.
What is a euro?
300
The role that Christianity played in the Middle Ages.
What is to offer a sense of community and security during the Middle Ages?
300
The ways in which art differed from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
What is more lifelike in the Renaissance than stiff in the Middle Ages?
300
How Russia gained more territory and became an empire.
What is the prince of Moscow conquered the territory surrounding Moscow in the 1300s; Peter the Great and Catherine the Great later added tot he empire?
300
The main goals of the European Union.
What is to promote security and and strong economy?
400
The period of history when products began to be made by machines in factories.
What is the industrial revolution?
400
The Pax Romana.
What is the Roman peace that lasted for 200 years?
400
The reason the 1600s and 1700s are often called the Age of Revolution.
What is time period when many significant revolutions, or far-reaching changes, occurred during this time?
400
The reason why Russian people came to oppose the tsars.
What is the result that under the tsars most people were poor and lived lives of hardship?
400
How changes in society during the Industrial Revolution lead to changes in the government.
What is the response of governments to workers' demands leads to a greater voice in the government gained by people and many European nations became more democratic?
500
A period of history that included the rebirth of interest in learning and art.
What is the Renaissance?
500
The reason that ancient Greeks are considered Europe's first great philosophers, poets, and writers.
What is who did not not accept the old ways of thinking, or who had new ideas about how people should live?
500
The revolutions that took place during the 1600s and 1700s.
What are the removal of King Charles from the throne for claiming too much power, causing a revolutionary change in England's government and the American Revolution and French Revolution that brought political change to those nations during the 1600-1700s?
500
The way in which Russia was different under rule of a tsar and the Soviet Union under rule of communism.
What is tsars allow only a few people to own land keeping the majority as poor peasants and communism has the state owning everything? (People were suppose to work and share the rewards equally, but the government tool all the power.)
500
The reason EU member nations prefer to handle some issues, such as healthcare, education, and housing policies on their own.
What is to preserve national independence and identity?