Famous Names
Who was the artist and inventor who painted the famous Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
This is Marx and Engels' term for the working class.
Proletariat
This was a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
The Enlightenment
Name the body of water between Europe and Africa.
Mediterranean Sea
Diaries and letters, autobiographies, journals, art, photos, video footage, and artifacts are all examples of
Primary Sources
This king, known as the Sun King, was the epitome of absolute monarchy. Among his most famous achievements was building the palace of Versailles.
Louis XIV
A political system in which total power is vested in a single king or queen.
Monarchy or Absolutism
Toussaint L'Ouverture was one of the key figures in this major event.
The Haitian Revolution
What is the term for a man-made waterway built to allow the passage of boats?
Canal
The Renaissance began in this country.
Italy
Who was the inventor of the steam engine?
The genre or period in western art and literature that emphasized emotion, imagination, nature, and heroism.
Romanticism
Marx and Engels published this in 1848.
The Communist Manifesto
This country is an island to the west of Great Britain and is often considered the first British colony.
Ireland
Name at least one famous woman intellectual of the Enlightenment. Last name is fine.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Emilie du Chatelet, Astell, etc.
Who was the Portuguese explorer who first navigated around Africa to get to Asia?
Vasco da Gama
This occurred as a result of the encounter between the Europeans (Cortez, Pizarro, Columbus) and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange
"Liberty, Fraternity, Equality" summarize the revolutionary ideas of which turning point in European history?
Name at least two countries in South Asia.
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was a document created by this governing body of the early French Revolution.
National Assembly
Who were the King and Queen of Spain who supported Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
This 1494 treaty divided the Americas and other newly discovered lands between the Spain and Portugal
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Name the device invented by Johannes Gutenberg that gave people access to published information.
The Printing Press
Japan and Hawaii are examples of this term for a group of islands.
Archipelago
Copernicus and Galileo proved the sun was at the center of our solar system by using scientific methods. What is the name of this solar model?
Heliocentric