A leader of Ancient Athens during its Golden Years.
Who is Pericles?
100
This word means "countryside."
What is rural?
100
A city in Ukraine, and the location of a horrible nuclear accident
What is Chernobyl?
200
A society in which the government owns all factories and major businesses
What is Communism?
200
The world’s largest landmass containing Europe and Asia.
What is Eurasia?
200
A form of democracy where people indirectly participate in government
What is Representative Democracy?
200
At the start of the Middle Ages in Europe, what part of the Roman Empire collapsed?
What is the Western Roman Empire?
200
The transition from handmade to machine made goods
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The process of a country trying to become more like Western Europe
What is Westernization?
300
Treeless plain where only grasses and mosses grow.
What is the Tundra?
300
An agreement between countries to protect and defend each other.
What is an alliance?
300
A type of society with no central government, where most people live in rural villages. Serfs look to local lords for protection in exchange for farming.
What is Feudalism?
300
In 1917, Vladmir Lenin and other Communists overthrew Nicholas II, who was the last
What is Czar?
400
A society in which individual own businesses and charities
What is capitalism or free enterprise?
400
Oil, natural gas and coal which provide energy for industries are called
What are fossil fuels?
400
Government by the Wealthy
What is Oligarchy?
400
This means a farmer who does not own the land they work on.
What is a serf or peasant?
400
An alliance among the US, Western Europe and Canada created to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding.
What is NATO?
500
The process whereby one country takes control of the political and economic life of another country or region.
What is Imperialism?
500
A term to describe fossil fuels. Once these fuels are used up, they are gone and cannot be used again. Example: Oil.
What are Nonrenewable Resources?
500
Rule by one person, often violently
What is Tyranny?
500
As the Roman Government collapsed, this organization became very influential throughout Western Europe.
What is the Christian Church?
500
A fee that a government charges on goods entering a country