The Columbian Exchange!
This bright red food is a staple of Italian cuisine, but only after 1492!
What is a tomato?
Life, Liberty, and Property! According to John Locke, all humans are born with these!
What are natural rights?
This Revolution started when the British got a little too tax happy overseas, after these people were very used to not paying taxes.
What is the American Revolution?
This invention powered the Industrial Revolution, giving life to factories and trains alike!
What is the steam engine?
This man and his wife, Sophie, were shot in their car, kicking off The Great War.
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
This trade network only got started when there weren't enough native Americans to work the plantations.
What is the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
This idea came about in Europe after Napoleon wanted to make everyone French, but everyone else disagreed.
What is nationalism?
This Revolution got heated quickly on the tennis court, and ended up with a lot of royal blood being spilled in the streets.
What is the French Revolution?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, thanks to it's geography and natural resources!
What is England/Great Britain?
What is trench warfare?
This tiny, invisible thing that went on the Columbian Exchange was responsible the collapse of empires and the extermination of populations.
What is disease? (Take any specific examples like smallpox, black plague, flu)
This bright era was full of philosophers debating about what governing actually means, and included people like Hobbes, Beccaria, and Wolstonecraft!
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
This country was mostly slaves before they revolted, becoming the first ever successful slave revolt in history!
What is Haiti?
Not only did this new type of travel beat walking, for the first time in human history, it beat horses too!
What is trains/the railroad?
This new weapon of WWI was particularly nasty, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Better hold your breath!
What is poison gas/mustard gas?
This land program not only gave conquistadors in the Americas territory, but also enslaved the people living on that land.
What is an encomienda?
This term means that people living in a place should be able to determine their own government, by themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
This type of government, by the people, for the people, was the most popular in countries after their successful revolutions.
What is democracy?
Before factories made producing everything so much faster and easier, this system of production had local artisans making things for their community.
What is the domestic system?
This Peace treaty punished Germany for WWI, and was one brick in the road to WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This cash crop was grown so often in the Americas, you would think it would be native there! Rumfortunetly, it had to be brought over!
What is sugar cane?
This philosopher is Mr. Pinnel's favorite from this specific time period, and would fight to the death for his right to say that!
Who is Voltaire?
This world spanning war between England and France helped kick off the Age of Revolutions, and might have actually been the first world war!
What is the Seven Years' War?
This economic system focused on private ownership of the means of production, allowing a bunch of people to get very rich.
What is capitalism?
List every part of the MANIA acronym for the causes of WWI.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Industrialism, and Assassination?