The Whole World
Name TWO of the 3 major trade routes in the period 1200-1450 CE.
Silk Roads, Indian Ocean Routes, Trans-Saharan Routes
This Supreme Court case ended the legal doctrine "separate but equal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Article 1 of the US Constitution establishes this branch of government.
What is the legislature?
This cozy-sounding term is the opposite of using force or coercion to influence the political values and policies of others.
What is soft power?
This is a form of imperfect competition where it is the only one in the market; the name of a popular boardgame.
What is a monopoly?
“Liberty, equality, fraternity” was the motto of this major European event.
What is the French Revolution?
Containment was a foreign policy objective during the Cold War wherein the United States attempted to prevent the spread of this economic and political system used in the then-Soviet Union.
What is communism?
A student of Socrates, and later teacher to Aristotle, this ancient Greek philosopher criticized democracy in his work "The Republic," arguing that it could lead to mob rule.
Who is Plato?
On May 27, 2022, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that this nation "is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the...power to do it?"
What is China?
Total Revenue minus Total Cost (TR-TC) is the formula to find this economic goal for firms.
What is profit?
The capital of the Byzantine Empire, this city fell to Ottoman Turks in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
After this state's admittance into the Union as the 50th state, the 50-star flag became official on July 4, 1960.
What is Hawaii?
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote this to advocate for equal treatment of minorities and is directly attributable to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as it drew attention to atrocities by the police in violating people's 1st amendment protections.
What is "Letter from a Birmingham Jail?"
Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution kicked off a wave of early-2011 Middle East protests now known by this two-word name.
What is Arab Spring?
Higher real interest rates are likely to ____ consumption and ____ saving.
decrease consumption, increase saving
The German technique used during WWII that immobilized enemy forces quickly through the use of speed and surprise. AKA "Lightning War"
What is Blitzkrieg?
The US presidents in office at the beginning of WWII and the end of WWII.
Who are Franklin D. Roosevelt, followed by Harry Truman?
Many scholars trace the core principles of international relations back to this 1648 document that ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
The poverty-fighting agency Oxfam was founded in the relative comfort and safety of this English university town.
What is Oxford?
Malthusianism (also called the Malthusian Dilemma or Malthusian crunch) states that the growth of this will outpace available resources and ultimately lead to a global catastrophe.
What is population?
This "moving" religious practice resulted in increased ethnic diversity, the development of cosmopolitan cities, and blending of religious traditions in Afro-eurasia.
What is the Hajj? (Pilgrimage to Mecca)
The "Era of Good Feelings" is a period in the political history of the U.S. typically considered as having a unified sense of national purpose and a desire for unity. This "Era" was in the aftermath of this war.
What is the "War of 1812?"
The principal author of “Declaration of Sentiments” which was presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and a leading figure in women’s fight for suffrage.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
In 2001, Goldman Sachs coined the phrase BRIC as an acronym for the four biggest developing economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China. This country added an S to the acronym in 2010.
What is South Africa?
A worker who loses a job at a petroleum refinery because consumers and business firms switch from the use of oil to the burning of coal is an example of this type of unemployment.
What is structural unemployment?