Sources & Timelines
Political Cartoons & Maps
Revolutions, Resistance and Rebellions
Imperialism and Economics
Cultural Diffusion and
and Globalization
100

A source coming from someone who witnessed or participated in the event in question and documented their experience themself (ex: a photograph or journal entry)

What is a Primary Source?

100

The place on a map that identifies symbols shown

What is a Key?

100

The event in which colonists in the US went to war with Britain and eventually declared independence

What is the American Revolution?

100

Spanish and English colonizers thought that (between the Native Americans and the Europeans), this group was superior 

What are Europeans?

100

Language, art, music, clothing, literature, and food are all aspects of this

What is Culture?

200

An Encyclopaedia Britannica entry discussing Rosa Parks's life, written in 2013 (hint: Rosa Parks passed away in 2005)

What is a Secondary Source?

200

Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, and Eagles are symbols of this country

What is the United States?

200

A relatively small revolt against authority and/or rules imposed by government

What is a Rebellion?

200

Plants, animals, and diseases all were exported and imported between the hemispheres, traveling on ships; a trade initiated by Columbus

What was the Columbian Exchange?

200

When people work in the skills they are best at to be as efficient as possible

What is Specialization?

300

The way that events are arranged on a timeline

What is Chronologically?

300

Political cartoons do not always have words, but they do always have this

What are images/pictures/visuals?

300

Biased information spread to sway people's views on a government or specific person/event/idea

What is Propaganda?

300

Nations gain wealth (money, resources) through this system of international trade

What is Mercantilism?

300

When two groups rely on each other and expect support from one another, espeically economically (ex: trading systems)

What is Economic Interdependence?

400

A source written in the first person is likely this

What is a Primary Source?

400

A specific, well-known person shown in a political cartoon with amplified feautures

What is a Caricature?

400

The resistance method of refusing to purchase something to show that you do not support it

What is Boycotting?

400

Colonizers came to the Americas hoping to spread this religion

What is Christianity? 

400

This virus was brought the the Americas by Europeans and killed millions of Indigenous peoples- Hint: it was also the only human disease to be eradicated (via vaccination) more recently

What is Smallpox?

500

The year does not exist on calendars and timelines

What is the Year 0 (Zero)?

500

The map of Virginia from 1651 by Edward Williams had this ocean drawn (inaccurately) at the north-west corner

What is The Sea of China and the Indies?

500

A series of wars of the religiously significant city of Jerusalem

What were the Crusades?

500

This was created by Spanish settlers to control, enslave, and take the land of the Indigenous people in Central and South America in order to gain economic power

What was the encomienda system?

500

The adapting, evolution, and merging of cultures over time as a result of their contact (Hint- NOT exactly the same as assimilation)

What is Acculturation?