164950938 | What caused World War I? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, there were too many alliances in Europe, the Ottoman Empire weakened, there were unstable borderlands in the Middle East, there was chaos in the Balkan states, and Germany challenged Britain. | |
164950939 | What was the impact of World War I? | 8 million lives taken, millions of refugees/dislocations, formation of the League of Nations, Poland was created, Germany and Russia were humiliated, Germany had to pay war reparations and was forbidden to have and air force, Yugoslavia and Czechoslavakia were formed. | |
164950940 | What were the causes of World War II? | Treaty of Versailles, Nazis in power, Britain and France didn't stand up to Germany, Germany invaded Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, fear of Stalin and Communism, Germany invaded Poland. | |
164950941 | What was fascism? | An Italian Political party created by Moussolini that emphasized aggressive nationalism. | |
164950942 | Computers, TV channels, music, and movies were part of what? | The internalization of popular culture. | |
164950943 | Who was the ruler of France after the French Revolution and Reign of Terror? | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
164950944 | What was the reign of terror? | A time in France when the guillotine was invented and people were executed by Robespierre for "treason," following the French Revolution. | |
164950945 | What were the Jacobins? | A political group in France that favored radical republicanism | |
164950946 | What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man? | A document authored by the National Assembly of France, like the American Bill of Rights, after the French Revolution | |
164950947 | What were the Estates General and the National Assembly | Ruling bodies--"parliaments" of sorts--in France. | |
164950948 | Poverty and poor working conditions caused... | The French Revolution of 1789 | |
164950949 | Poverty and poor working conditions, the Estates General and National Assembly, Jacobins, the Reign of Terror and the guillotine, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Declaration of the rights of Man were all part of.... | The French Revolution of 1789 | |
164950950 | What ended centuries of imperial seclusion and disempowerment by shoguns? | Meiji Restoration | |
164950951 | What transformed Japan from a decentralized, military government to a centralized civil state? | Meiji Restoration | |
164950952 | Marxism | socialist ideals that combine German philosophy, French Revolutionary ideas, and knowledge of British industrial conditions | |
164950953 | What gave "scientific" reasons for the power of the priviliged? | Social Darwinism | |
164950954 | Neoconfucianism | new Confucian ideas that developed in the Tang Dynasty and grew during the Sang Dynasty | |
164950955 | Why was European exploration important? | opening of new trade routes, establishing intercontinental contact, growing global interaction | |
164950956 | What are the characteristics of an absolute monarchy? | monarchs hold all the power, absence of any constitutional check on a ruler's power, country's wealth in the hands of one ruler | |
164950957 | What was the Reformation? | many reforms in the Church, Catholic and Protestant Reforms | |
164950958 | What was the Triangular Trade system? | Europe to Africa (guns), Africa to Americas (slaves) and Americas to Europe (raw materials) | |
164950959 | During the Atlantic Slave trade | slaves were kidnapped, worked on plantations, and lived in shacks on their masters' lands. | |
164950960 | Arab Caliphate | office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammed, to rule the Islamic Empire | |
164950961 | Memluks | Turkish military slaves who eventually ruled Egypt and Syria | |
164950962 | Feudalism | a society where kinds and lords gave land to vassals in return for military support | |
164950963 | Who were the mongols? | A nomadic group that controlled the territory along the silk Road. | |
164950964 | Who controlled parts of China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Ukraine, Iran, and Iraq? | the Mongols | |
164950965 | Who brought wealth and interest from the west, spread Islam, and spread the plague? | The Mongols | |
164950966 | Who spread ideas like astronomy and engineering? | The Mongols | |
164950967 | Neolithic | The period of the stone age | |
164950968 | The transition from food collection to food production was a part of.. | The Agricultural Revolution | |
164950969 | The transition to farming and settled life was part of... | The Agricultural Revolution | |
164950970 | The domestication of animals was part of... | The Agricultural Revolution | |
164950971 | The specialization of labor was part of... | The Agricultural Revolution | |
164950972 | The agricultural revolution had an impact on patterns of... | language, belief, dress, and dwelling | |
164950973 | Patriarchial systems | Male was head of household and had nearly absolute power in the family | |
164950974 | Mandate of Heaven | The Emperor was granted the right to rule by God as long as he served as a wise, principled, and energetic ruler | |
164950975 | The philosophical pursuit of knowledge and truth was a ___approach to philosophy | Greek | |
164950976 | question & answer to reach a deeper under standing was a ____ approach to philosophy | Greek |
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