-isms
Ancient World
Economic Words
WWII and After
Grab Bag
100

This means ¨a strong pride in one´s nation or ethnic group¨.

Nationalism

100

This was a king in Ancient Egypt.

Pharoah

100

This is a crop grown for sale.

Cash Crop

100

This was the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis in WWII.



Holocaust

100

This was a time period of great scientific change and discovery during the 16th and 17th centuries . 



Scientific Revolution

200

This word means ¨a system by which a country maintains colonies outside its borders¨.

Colonialism

200

This was the gradual spreading of the Bantu across Africa over 2,000 years ago.

Bantu Migration

200

This is the process of bringing water to dry land. 



Irrigation

200

This was a time period after WWII of political noncooperation between the members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations.

 

Cold War

200

This is information designed to spread certain beliefs.

Propaganda

300

This is a way of life in which people raise cattle, sheep, or goats as their primary economic activity.

Pastoralism

300

What two trade goods were sold by the African Kingdoms?

Salt and Gold

300

This is a fee imposed by a government on imported goods.

Tariff

300

This Polish Catholic figure helped end the Cold War.

Pope John Paul II

300

What is zionism?

Movement to create a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land

400

This is an economic system in which the factories and businesses are privately owned and the owners make decisions about what goods to produce.

Capitalism

400

This was a Sumerian system of writing, in which wedge shaped symbols were used.

Cuneiform

400

This is a raw material used to manufacture other products. 

Primary Product

400

This word means the outlawing of materials that contain certain information.

Censorship

400

Name the four countries of the United Kingdom.

England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

500

This means a belief in many gods.

Polytheism

500

Which three rivers did western civilization grow around?

Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates

500

This is a product manufactured from raw materials.

Secondary Product

500

How did the Treaty of Versailles help lead to the rise of the Nazis? 



It forced Germany to pay for the damages of WWII and disbanded the German army. Germans turned to Hitler to get their pride back.

500

What were the effects of the slave trade on African society?

It depopulated Africa, which meant there was little resistance to European colonization.