Early modern 1
Early modern 2
Political Revolutions
Industrial Revolution
Imperialism and the Great War
100

Voyages across the Atlantic, 1492 to 1504, captained by this person.

Who was Columbus (sailing for Spain)?

100

Sculptor of 'the David' for the city of Florence in early 1500s. 

Who is Michelangelo?

100

Haitian independence revolutionary

Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?

100

Burning coal to boil water to make extremely hot wet air to drive a metal piston to make motion is the basis of this important new machine and industrial power source of the late 1700s to 1800s

What is the steam engine (especially Watt engine named for James Watt)?

100

A conference to divide Africa among Europeans powers in 1884-5 was held in a new capital city of this relatively new 'Reich' or empire/country.  (name city and country)

What is Berlin, Germany?

200

The historical name for disease, microbes, animals, plants, technologies, ideas, etc. that came from Europe and Africa to North and South America (and other things that flowed back across the Atlantic to the 'Old World').

What is the Columbian Exchange?

200

In the 1780s "Sapere Aude" was Kant's answer to this question.

What is the Enlightenment? (sapere aude means "DARE TO KNOW")

200

The 'ism' Bolsheviks adhered to (followed).

What is communism (Marxism as understood by Bolshevist leader Lenin)?

200

Before the steam engine, Abraham Darby invented a process of heating coal to make it this -- a better substance for creating iron. 

What is coke? (and the 'coking process')

200

How industrial workers are exploited by capitalists is the main theme of this short book first published in 1848.

What is the Communist Manifesto by K. Marx, and F. Engels?

300

In the 1520s Islam spread into this region led by the "Mughals" who built a fairly tolerant empire on top of Hindu civilization. (region/country name)

What is India?

300

This man organized a multi-volume book project that was a prime example of the Enlightenment. (both man and project must be named)

Who is Diderot? and what is the Encyclopedia?

300

The political 'party' of Maximilian Robespierre.

Who are the Jacobins?

300

Machines allowing workers to make things faster (name the economic term).

What is increases in PRODUCTIVITY? (greater output/input)

300

In 1851 at the Great Exhibition in London celebrating industrialization we see some examples of rich resources brought to England from Asia by this company.

What is the BEIC? (British East India Company which directly links imperialism to industrialization).

400

The two thousand year 'phase' of Chinese rule by a series of 'family' dynasties began in about 220 BCE and ended in this year.

What is 1911? (end of the last dynasty, the Qing).

400

In the 1740s this French Philosopher wrote a book about laws and government that had big idea which became basis of American Constitutional government. (name philosophe and idea)

Who was Montesquieu and what was the separation of power (into legislative, executive, and judicial authority)?

400

Three ideas that are the motto of the French Revolution (spread in Europe in late 1700s into 1800s)

What is "liberty, equality, and fraternity" (brotherhood)?

400

Adam Smith in 1776 published the Wealth of Nations which (among other things) attacked this old idea that colonies must only serve the mother country.

What is mercantilism?

400

One significant military alliance in the early 1900s between industrial developing European empires involved France, Great Britain, and this old continental autocracy led by an emperor.

What is Czarist Russia?  (known as the Triple Entente)

500

Involving almost 13 million people over a 300+ year time frame this was one of the world's most siginificant coercive (by force) episodes.

What is the Atlantic Slave Trade (1500s to early 1800s involving the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British, and others)?

500

One book that is a prime example (from 1620s) of how scientific method got established in western culture as a way to understand the world.

What was Novo Organum (by Francis Bacon)?

500

South American revolutionary significantly responsible for the independence from Spain of 5 new countries.

Who is Simon Bolivar?

500

Mapping how prices are a function or outcome of costs and what people are willing to exchange for the items or services, was what Adam Smith called this (economic phrase).

The "law of supply and demand"?

500

An ally of imperial Germany, this empire was defeated in WWI and was broken up into several new states/countries.

What is the Austrian Empire?  (aka Austro-Hungarian empire)