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100

This intellectual movement focused on people's potential and achievements; it drove Renaissance art and helped spark the Protestant Reformation.

Humanism

100

This legendary 14th-century ruler of Mali used his vast gold wealth and devotion to Islam to put his empire on European maps during his famous pilgrimage.

Mansa Musa

100

This French monarch built this palace and exemplified absolutism with his phrase, "L’etat, c’est moi."

Louis XIV; Versailles

100

This political phrase became a rallying cry for colonists regarding British taxes like the Stamp Act without having a voice in Parliament.

"No taxation without representation"

100

On the political spectrum, this term would describe the slogan:  "Make America Great Again"

Reactionary

200

This German monk sparked the Protestant Reformation when he posted his 95 Theses on a church door to protest the sale of indulgences.

Martin Luther

200

These trans-Saharan trade routes allowed the Mali Empire to accumulate vast wealth by trading its abundant gold for this life-preserving mineral.

"Salt Roads"

200

This Enlightenment philosopher had a more "absolutist" view of the solution to the state of nature.

Thomas Hobbes
200

Greatly influenced by John Locke, Jefferson argued for these three natural rights in this year.

life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness; 1776

200

This radical French journalist used his newspaper to stoke the fires of the revolution before being assassinated by this young woman.

Marat; Charlotte Corday

300

These two massive historic crises—one a series of religious wars and the other a devastating pandemic—shook feudalism and helped end the Middle Ages.

Crusades and the Black Plague

300

This horrific leg of the transatlantic triangular trade involved the systematic dehumanization and forced transport of enslaved Africans to the Americas.

Middle Passage

300

This Enlightenment thinker argued that if women were to be good mothers and wives, they should at least be educated in medicine and anatomy.

Mary Wollstonecraft

300

This Indigenous American political system heavily influenced the power sharing structure of the United States Constitution between the states and the federal government and the impeachment of officials.

the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

300

Robespierre headed the Committee of Public Safety and unleashed the Reign of Terror, and eventually had this colleague guillotined for opposing the killing of the king.

Georges Danton

400

This English king created this new church and signed the Act of Supremacy because the Pope refused to grant him an annulment.

Henry VIII; Church of England (or Anglican Church)

400

This traditional West African storyteller and oral historian maintained the history, genealogy, and culture of the Mali Empire.

Griot

400

This political concept, championed by Rousseau, states that people agree to hand over some liberties to a government in exchange for social order.

The social contract

400

This deeply controversial constitutional compromise counted a fraction of the enslaved population for representation and taxation purposes, exposing an "unenlightened" side of the Revolution.

Three-fifths Compromise

400

The pledge to not stop meeting until a new constitution had been written for France.

Tennis Court Oath

500

This artistic technique uses mathematical principles to create the illusion of three dimensions on a flat surface, transforming Renaissance painting.  This artist used it to perfection in the "Last Supper."

perspective geometry; Michaelangelo

500

This specific system of slavery treats human beings as personal property that can be bought, sold, and inherited across generations.

chattel slavery

500

This French thinker argued that to prevent tyranny, government power must be divided into separate branches—an idea central to the US Constitution.

Montesquieu

500

This British policy of relaxed enforcement of colonial regulations allowed the American colonies to develop a strong sense of economic and political self-governance.

Salutary neglect

500

Parisians tore down this medieval prison, brick by brick on this day, month, and year.

Bastille; July 14, 1789

600

Put these events in order from first to last:

A) The Renaissance

B) Middle Ages

C) Jesus's Birth

D) Fall of Rome in the West

C, D, B, A

600

Put these events in order from first to last:

A) Mali Golden Age

B) American Revolution

C) First African slaves arrive in Virginia

D) Liberia is established

A, C, B, D

600

While he urged the 13 colonies to adopt an alliance similar to that of Indigenous Nations, he also referred to these human beings as "ignorant savages."

Ben Franklin

600

Put these events in order from first to last:

A) French-Indian War

B) Jamestown Founded

C) Stamp Act Passed

D) Boston Tea Party

B, A, C, D

600

Put these events in order from first to last:

A) Stamp Act

B) Meeting of the Estates General for the first time in 175 years

C) Napoleon becomes emperor

D) Treaty of Paris

A, D, B, C