This Roman general became the leader of Rome and was killed by a group of senators
Who is Julius Caesar?
100
From the city of Venice, this explorer went to China and worked for the Chinese emperor. His travels inspired Europeans to begin to travel to and trade with China and the rest of Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
This type of economy usually uses old-fashioned methods of production. It doesn't use much technology. Farming is usually done by it.
What is a traditional economy?
100
To be a citizen, people in Athens had to be male and these two other things.
What is being free and native born to the city?
100
He nailed a list of 95 complaints on a church door, beginning the Reformation in Europe.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
He was the nephew of Julius Caesar and ruled Rome after his death.
Who is Octavian (Augustus)?
200
He was the Chinese philosopher who believed that wives and children should follow the husband/father.
Who is Confucius?
200
This is the kind of economy that South Korea has.
What is a free market or capitalist?
200
This is the name given to the two hundred year period of peace and unity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
200
The storming of this building began the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
300
This is the name given to the global economic crisis that started in America in 1929 and spread out through the rest of the world.
What is the Great Depression?
300
In this square, Chinese protestors came together to demand more rights but soon found themselves attacked by Chinese soldiers.
What is Tianamen Square?
300
North Korea has this kind of economy.
What is a command economy?
300
This document, signed by King John of England, made kings follow the same laws that others had to. It also said that kings need to seek the advise of nobles.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
His assassination in the city of Sarajevo caused the beginning of the first World War.
Who is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
400
The invasion of this country by Germany on Sept 1, 1939 marks the beginning of World War II.
What is Poland?
400
The Chinese added aspects of this type of economy to their command economy to make China's economy the second most powerful economy in the world.
What is a market economy?
400
These are the taxes placed on imported goods in Japan which helps to create a trade surplus for the country.
What is a tariff?
400
This deadly disease killed about 1/3 of Europe's population and was one reason for the end of the Middle Ages.
What is the Black Death? or Bubonic Plague?
400
This invention helped the spread of new ideas, like Luther's attempt to reform the Catholic Church, during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
500
This is the Japanese city that was hit by one of the first atomic bombs. This attack helped end World War II in the Pacific.
What is Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki?
500
These two rivers are important in the beginning of Chinese civilization.
What are the Chiang Jian and the Huange He?
500
These are the three reasons for the end of the feudal system during the Middle Ages.
What is the discovery of gunpowder, the rise of the merchant class, and a weakened Church?
500
This was the most important factor that held medieval Europe together.
What is Christianity?
500
This organization uses the Euro as its currency and has brought much of Europe together. It has an executive, legislative, and judicial branch in its structure.