Ren & Ref
This invention helped spread Martin Luther's ideas rapidly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
(invented by Johannes Gutenberg)
This Portuguese prince sponsored early voyages along the African coast.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator? (Created a sailing school as well)
This document declared the American colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence? (List of grievances against the king)
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized processing of a certain cash crop.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1941 attack led to the U.S. joining WWII.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor? (Remember which country did this attack)
This religious group emphasized strict discipline, education, and missionary work.
Who are the Jesuits?
(established schools and did missionary work)
This empire rivaled the Ottomans and followed Shi'a Islam.
Who are the Safavids?
This Latin American revolution was led by a former slave?
Haitian Revolution
This British system allowed monarchs to share power with Parliament.
What is a constitutional monarchy? (established by the English Bill of Rights)
This Cold War event in 1962 brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This council reaffirmed Catholic doctrine in response to Protestant challenges.
What is the Council of Trent?
(part of the Counter Reformation, clarified Catholic principles)
This Spanish conquistador defeated the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
John Locke argued that people are born with these three rights.
What are life, liberty and property? (Also recall his other idea of the relationship between citizens and government… what was it?)
The Berlin Conference was organized to divide this continent among European powers.
Africa (remember who was there and who wasn’t!)
This plan provided U.S. aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This term describes the movement that broke away from the Catholic Church and created new Christian denominations.
What is the Protestant Reformation? (Calvinist/Huguenots, Lutheran, Anglican)
Spain and Portugal signed which agreement that divided the New World between the two countries?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? (Line of Demarcation, was redrawn after further exploration)
The Enlightenment thinker who argued for separation of powers in government.
Who was Montesquieu?
The term for British rule in India after the fall of the Mughal Empire.
What is the British Raj?
The 1917 telegram that pushed the U.S. closer to entering WWI.
What is the Zimmerman note?
He translated the Bible into ______________, making it more accessible to ordinary people. (two part response)
Who is Martin Luther and What is the Vernacular?
The triangular trade connected these three regions.
What is the Americas, Europe and Africa?
This economic policy, practiced by European empires during colonization, emphasized accumulating wealth through a favorable balance of trade and colonial resource exploitation.
What is Mercantilism?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
500 (Daily Double): This Mexican leader launched La Reforma to improve education and redistribute land.
Who was Benito Juarez?
The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate System both allowed countries in which continent to exert power of which region of the world? (2 part)
What is European Nations and The Middle East