This classical European civilization was made up of many independent city-states like Athens and Sparta.
What is Greece?
100
This route was the main connector between Europe and China, facilitating trade and cultural exchange.
What is the Silk Road?
100
This was the popular name for the "rebirth" of classical art and culture in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The political revolutions of this period had their roots in this outgrowth of political thought and debate.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This is the name for the extended war for ideological influence between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries.
What is the Cold War?
200
The most important development that allowed the birth of cities and civilizations.
What is agriculture?
200
This European model of social organization consisted of a king at the top, with landholding nobles below him, knights that fought for them, and the peasants that worked the land below all.
What is feudalism?
200
This movement started by Martin Luther in the 1500s challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and led to a split.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
200
This movement, exemplified in the Berlin Conference, is that of Western powers conquering and controlling foreign nations for profit.
What is imperialism?
200
This allowed dictators to take power in the period between World War I and World War II.
What is the Great Depression, or economic instability?
300
This early law code set out rules for a functioning society, and even put some limits on the power of the king.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
This religion began in the Middle East before spreading, and had many sailors and merchants who facilitated trade.
What is Islam?
300
This is the name for the transfer of plants, animals, culture, and diseases back and forth between the "Old World" (Europe) to the "New World" (Americas) following European Exploraiton.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
In the nineteenth century, low wages and dangerous working conditions helped lead to the formation of this in Europe and America.
What is the labor union movement, or socialism?
300
After WWII, the United States funded a plan to rebuild Europe and contain communism named this.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This society from Mesoopotamia was skilled at administration, allowing them to manage a relatively large kingdom. They pioneered the model known today as federalism.
What is Persia?
400
These nomadic people, led by Genghis and Kublai Khan, conquered a large land empire, including China and parts of Eastern Europe. Their empire provided stability and allowed for more trade.
Who are the Mongols?
400
The pattern of trade between Europe, Africa, and the New World colonies is usually referred to as this.
What is the triangular trade?
400
This French leader emerged after the French Revolution. He conquered large parts of Europe and helped change the social structure, bringing an end to feudalism.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
This device, first invented and used in 1945, changed the political landscape in the years that followed.
What is an atomic bomb?
500
One thing the first large civilizations all had in common is that they all developed in this kind of place
What is a river valley?
500
This is the name for the influence of Greek art, language, and culture across foreign lands. Spread by Alexander the Great.
What is Hellenism?
500
This economic system used colonies for profit by buying their raw materials for manufacturing then selling finished goods to the colonies at a profit.
What is mercantilism?
500
This general freed much of Latin America from Spanish colonial rule during the independence movement.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
500
Why do many historians say that the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles failed and helped lead to World War II?
It was more concerned with "punishing" Germany and not letting them rebuild their army than with solving the original problems of the war and with rebuilding Europe.