Employability and World History
The study of past events.
What is history?
The Eastern side of the Roman Empire that lived to be one of the longest lasting empire
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The assumption that there is only one god.
What is Monotheism?
The two alliances that fought against one another during WWII.
What were the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers (Allies)?
A transfer of many living beings and technologies between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia. This system featured, Bi-directional transfer, an exchange of goods, disease spreading, cultural exchange, and slavery.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
Transferable skills needed by an individual to make them 'employable.'
What is Employability?
The disease that claimed 30-60% of Europe's Population in the 1300s
What is the Black Death? (Bubonic Plague)
An ideology pushes forward the need to be loyal, devoted, and allegiance to one's nation.
What is Nationalism?
A tactic in which soldiers fought in thin, lengthy ditch that were dug in the ground earlier that year, to offer protection from enemy fire yet a struggle to advance as “No Man’s Land”, the area in between was exposed heavily to the likes of artillery fire.
What is Trench Warfare?
The citizens of ancient Chinese civilization would often believe that one could get authority or the power to the empire through God’s intervention that a certain family should be the nation’s ruler.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Judging others and their culture according to preconceptions in standards of someone’s own culture
What is Ethnocentrism?
The most widely spoken language in Africa that developed when the Bantu language and the Arabic collided at seaports where many Muslim Arab and Persian traders settled
What is Swahili?
The nation where the Industrial Revolution started.
What is Great Britain?
Making arrangements to which an aggressor gets what they want in the hopes that war doesn’t break out.
What is Appeasement?
The religion that came about when the Protestant reformation, led by Martin Luther, challenged the Roman Catholic Church and its teachings on indulgences and its authority.
What is Protestantism?
Conducting yourself with responsibility, integrity, accountability and excellence, communicating effectively and finding ways to be productive.
What is Professionalism?
Japanese members of the warrior class. In the late 12th century, they were first used as warriors from the provinces to serve the Kuge and the imperial court. They later became influential in politics until being outlawed in the late 1870s during the Meiji period
What is a samurai?
When a single soul, whether that being a person or company, holds control over a certain aspect where one can predicate and dictate prices while excluding competitors.
What is a monopoly?
A period in Russia of severe political repression where there was a systematic campaign of executions of political and religious figures, red army leaders, and anyone else who dared to threaten his power.
What is the Great Terror (Stalin's Great Purge)?
A landmark document that was established for the purpose that a monarch can not be put above the law and aimed to limit the king's power.
What was the Magna Carta?
To understand the ways of the past and make sense out of it by identifying setting, perspectives, cause and effect of events, and recognizing cues
What is Historical Comprehension?
what samurais would follow to show how samurai are supposed to live. One example states that “ The unwavering loyalty a samurai must show to their lord, even to the point of committing ritual suicide (seppuku) if their lord is killed or dishonored, prioritizing duty above their own life.”
What is the Bushido Code?
was a French judge, and political philosopher who had many ideas during the time of the enlightenment, like the separations of powers, checks and balances, and the right to political liberty.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
A widespread cultural phenomenon where many Americans sought to distract themselves from the serious issues of the time by focusing on enjoying life and the present moment.
What is "Escapism"?
A time in history when an organization known as OPEC restricted several nations like the United States from obtaining oil due to their support for Israel during the Yom Kipper War.
What was the Arab Oil Embargo?