U.S
This ocean separated the American colonies from their mother countries.
The Atlantic Ocean
The first ten amendments to the U.S constitution are known as this.
Bill of Rights
The first known civilization, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Mesopotamia
This imaginary line at 0 longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Prime Meridian
The system of landholding and mutual obligations between lords and vassals in medieval europe.
Feudalism
This 1863 declaration by Abraham Lincon freed enslaved people In Confederate territory.
Emancipation Proclamation
This enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
This river valley civilization in south Asia developed cities like Harappa and mohenjo-Daro.
Indus River Valley Civalization
These steep, glacier-carved coastal inlets are found in Norway, Chile, and New Zealend.
Fjords
This pandemic killed an estimated one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century.
Black death (Bubonic Plague)
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia highlighted tensions between frontier farmers and colonial elites.
Bacons Rebellion
The principle that government powers are divided among legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Seperation of Powers
The Chinese philosophy that emphasized harmony with nature.
Daoism (Taoism)
Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world, with approximately 90% of Canadians living within 100 miles of the U.S border.
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The 1517 event that sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther posting the 95 theses
This period from 1865-1877 focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into society.
Reconstruction
The U. S's first constitution, replaced because it was too weak.
Articles of Confederation
This ancient empire is credited with creating the first alphabet, later adapted by the Greeks.
Phoenicians
Africa's borders often appear as straight lines because they were drawn during this 1884-85 meeting of European powers.
Berlin Confrence
This Italian city-state is often referred to as the birthplace of the renaissance.
Florence
This Native American confederacy in the Northeast was one of the most politically sophisticated before European contact.
Iroquois Confederacy
This federalist paper, written by James Madison, argued for a large republic to control factions.
Federalist paper no. 10
This Babylonian king created one of the world's first written legal codes.
Hammurabi
The idea that humans adapt to their environment to their needs. As seen with terrace farming in Japan, rather than being fully controlled by it is called this.
Possibilism
This 1648 treaty ended the thirty years' war and is seen as the start of the modern state system.
Treaty of Westphalia