Land and Climate
Religious Revelations
Movers and Shakers
Government
Floatsam and Jetsam
The Renaissance
Colonialism
100

When these shift, mountain ranges and islands form AND volcanic eruptions and earthquakes can occur.

**What are Tectonic Plates?**

100

His teachings centered on non-violence and civil disobedience and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

**Who is Ghandi?**

100

This Roman emperor split the empire into East and West.  He also made Christianity the official religion.

Who is Constantine?

100

Governments use this to get their people to do what they want.  It involves lying to them or only telling part of the truth.

What is Propaganda?

100

The most valuable (money-wise) resource of the Middle East.

**What is Petroleum?**

100

This was the "RE-Birth" of Europe's interest in knowledge and culture, which woke them up from the Dark and Middle Ages

What is the Renaissance?

100

These countries were the MAIN European colonizing countries, which exploited the Americas, SE Asia, and South Asia. (points for each correct one)

Who are 

-England,
-France,
-Spain,
-Portugal,
-The Netherlands

200
A method of bringing water to land, to grow crops.

What is irrigation?

200

This Chinese philosopher emphasized right and proper relationships between people.

Who is Confucius?

200

He made it possible to mass produce books for a much cheaper price.

Who is Johannes Guttenberg?

200

A conflict that centered over political ideologies and different views of the government and the world.

The conflict was usually between Communist Countries vs the United States and Western countries, BUT the two sides very rarely fought against each other directly.

**What is the Cold War?**

200
This happens when a country takes over a foreign land in order to get money and resources from it.

What is Colonialism?

200

This cause of the Renaissance happened because IT killed so many people that the remaining population left their manors and went to towns and cities to find work and community.

What is the Bubonic Plague or Black Death?

200

These crops were the biggest producers of income for European colonizers in Central America and the Caribbean. (points for each correct answer)

What are 

-sugar

-coffee

-bananas

300

In South Asia, these bring really wet weather from the Indian Ocean in May through October 

AND

Really DRY weather from central Asia in November through April.

What are Monsoons

OR Monsoon Seasons.
(Summer Monsoon/Winter Monsoon)

300

Chinese Communists banned his popular teachings because they considered it a religion.

Who is Confucius?

300

He brought the Pax Romana to the Roman Empire.

Who is Caesar Augustus?

300

This part of Roman government was made up of Plebians, elected the tribunes and selected the Conuls.

What is the Assembly?

300

His code was one of the first set of laws to be written down.

Who is Hammurabi?

300

This institution beginning to lose some of it's power was a cause of the Renaissance.

What is the Catholic Church?

300

This country was the main European Colonizer of the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America

What is Spain?

400

This type of land means it is good for farming.

What is arable?

400

The teaching that says one should not harm any living thing.

**What is Ahimsa?**

400

This priest led the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 protests of the Catholic church to a door in Wittenberg, Germany.

**Who is Martin Luther?**

400

This type of government controls the economy and all industry.

What is a Communist Government?

400

The every day language of  common people.

What is Vernacular?

400

Scholars from this Empire helped cause the Renaissance when ancient Greek and Roman texts were discovered.

What is the Byzantine Empire?

400

He tried to unite the people of South Asia, (including Hindus and Muslims and Buddhists) to resist European colonization of South Asia.

Who is Mahatma Gandhi?

500

A rich, yellowish soil that occurs through erosion and whethering.  

**What is Loess?**
500

While not strictly a religion, his philosophical search for truth was key to Ancient Greece's ethical development.

**Who is Socrates?**

500

He was responsible for much of Greece's Golden Age and he expanded democracy.

**Who is Pericles?**

500

This part of Roman government was made up of 300 patricians, were selected by the Consuls, and MADE LAWS.

What is the Senate?

500

These people migrated from Central Asia and settled in India

Who are the Aryans?

500

This invention helped rapidly spread New and Old ideas, which helped cause the Renaissance.

What is the Printing Press?

500

This man was the main South American resistor of European colonization.  

**Who is Simon Bolivar?**

600

These are the deep bays of Scandinavia, in Northern Europe.

**What are Fjords?**

600

This South Asian empire supported Buddhism. 

**What is the Mauryan Empire?**

600

He was the leader of the Communist Revolution in China.

Who is Mao Zedong? (Chairman Mao)

600

This branch of Roman Government contained two Consuls, led the government and controlled the army.

What is the Executive Branch?

600

This city is also called Constantinople and is situated where Europe and Asia meet.

**What is Istanbul?**

600

A BIG effect of the Renaissance was that artists such as 

-Painters
-architects
-writers

Began to innovate.  HOW?  (points for each correctly identified innovation

Painters began to use such techniques as perspective.

Architects brought back ancient Greek and Roman influences in their building designs.

Writers began to write in the vernacular of the common people.

600

This country and their East India Company dominated Southeast Asia for many years.

**Who are the Dutch?
OR

What is the Netherlands**

700

This man-made body of water connects northern and southern China.

What is the Grand Canal?

700

This was started to protest the practices of the Catholic Church.

**What is the Protestant Reformation?**

700

He spent his life trying to liberate the people of South America from Spain.

**Who is Simon Bolivar?**

700

This branch of Roman government contained 8 judges and governed Romes provinces.

What is the Judicial Branch?

700

During the Cold War, the United States became involved in this war to stop the spread of Communism.

(TWO POSSIBLE ANSWERS HERE)

What is the Korean War?

What is the Vietnam War?

700

This effect of the Renaissance happened when different groups of people wanted to change the Catholic Church and become different types of Christians.

**What is the Reformation?**

700

This country colonized Brazil and dominated the slave trade in the Americas.

What is Portugal?

800

Which important Middle Eastern rivers have their source in the mountains of Iran
AND
provided a basis for the Cradle of Civilization.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

800

He was the mastermind behind China's Great Leap forward AND Cultural Revolution.

Who is Mao Zedong? (Chairman Mao)

800

This branch of Roman Government contained the Sentate and the Assembly

**What is the Legislative Branch?**

800

These two neighboring countries fought each other in the 1940s and 1950s, along the 38th parallel, as a part of the Cold War.

Who are 

North and South Korea?

800

He sculpted the famous statue of David.

Who is Michelangelo?

800

When native populations died of disease or ran away, Spain began doing this to get workers for its plantations in the Americas.

What is getting African Slaves?