6919252102 | John Calvin | Renaissance political theorist | 0 | |
6919259712 | Moveable type | Invention of Johannes Gutenberg | 1 | |
6919262550 | 95 Theses | Document written by Martin Luther | 2 | |
6919269416 | Importance of Copernicus | Studied astronomy | 3 | |
6919273760 | Importance of Kepler | Important figure of scientific revolution | 4 | |
6919284910 | Importance of Galileo | Studied planetary motion | 5 | |
6919291842 | John Locke | English philosopher who valued reason | 6 | |
6919322600 | Aurangzeb | Leader of Conquistadors against Aztecs | 7 | |
6919324243 | Treaty of Toresillas | Separated land between Spain and Portugal | 8 | |
6919335661 | Role of viceroys | The king's agent; normally a high-ranking Spanish noble | 9 | |
6919346572 | Creoles | Spanish whites born and raised in the New World | 10 | |
6919350156 | Peninsulares | Spanish whites living in the New World but born in Spain | 11 | |
6919353385 | Triangular Trade | Trade between Africa, New World, and Europe; slaves went to America for sugar and tobacco to Europe | 12 | |
6919360011 | Middle Passage | Traumatic slave voyage from Africa and the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean | 13 | |
6919373626 | Ivan the Terrible | Nickname for Ivan IV | 14 | |
6919380330 | Role of viziers | Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy; after 5th century often more powerful than the sultan | 15 | |
6919387654 | Savafid Empire | Muslim empire that ruled Persia | 16 | |
6919394563 | Aurangzeb | Indian ruler who tried to purify Islam | 17 | |
6919394564 | Indian Ocean | Body of water that was center of Asian trade | 18 | |
6919397967 | American Revolution | 1775-1783 | 19 | |
6919399233 | French Revolution | 1789-1799 | 20 | |
6919403551 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Ruler of French Empire at the end of the French Revolution | 21 | |
6919407635 | Importance of Louis Pasteur | Studied microbiology | 22 | |
6919411556 | American Civil War | 1861-1865 | 23 | |
6919414608 | Karl Marx | Policital theorist | 24 | |
6919419315 | Albert Einstein | Founded the law of realitivity | 25 | |
6919424487 | Monroe Doctrine | American declaration stated in 1823 that established any attempt of a European country to colonize in the Americas as an unfriendly act by the United States | 26 | |
6919444710 | Triple Entente | Russia, Britain, France | 27 | |
6919447190 | Triple Alliance | Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary | 28 | |
6919450806 | Sepoys | Indian troops that served the British East India Company | 29 | |
6919453215 | British Raj | British political establishment in India; developed because of a rivalry between France and Britain in India | 30 | |
6919473507 | Boers | Dutch settlers in Southern Africa | 31 | |
6919478686 | Toussaint L'ouverture | Former slave from Haiti | 32 | |
6919489324 | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | Leader of Mexican Independence | 33 | |
6919493577 | Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo | Agreement that ended the Mexican-American War | 34 | |
6919505257 | Panama Canal under U.S. control | The U.S. paid millions of dollars for the construction of the canal | 35 | |
6919508956 | Importance of Suez Canal | Created an easier trade route from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean | 36 | |
6919512224 | Opium War | Fought between the British and China beginning in 1839; fought to protect British trade in opium and resulted in British victory, opening of Hong Kong as a Britishtrading port | 37 | |
6919527170 | Boxer Rebellion | Outburst aimed at expelling foreigners from China | 38 | |
6919540141 | Communism | Lenin's political party | 39 | |
6919543987 | U.S. came by ship | U.S. first opened up trade in Japan | 40 | |
6919547580 | Francis Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungary that was assassinated to start WW1 | 41 | |
6919554019 | Russian leader before revolution | Vladimir Lenin | 42 | |
6919556621 | Result of Versailles Treaty | Entrance of WW1 | 43 | |
6919569260 | Benito Mussolini | Founder of Italian Fascism | 44 | |
6919570139 | Stalin | Russian leader after Lenin | 45 | |
6919588055 | Mao Zedong | Leader of Chinese communist party | 46 | |
6919590126 | Adolf Hitler | Leader of National Social Party in Germany | 47 | |
6919590934 | Holocaust | Mass genocide and "Final Solution" to kill the opposition and inferior races off | 48 | |
6919595453 | Pearl Harbor | U.S. entry into WW2 | 49 | |
6919596961 | United Nations | Replacement for the League of Nations | 50 | |
6919605275 | Yalta Agreement | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1945 | 51 | |
6919613014 | Apartheid | Policy of strict racial segregation | 52 | |
6919632458 | Cold War countries | United States, Soviet Union, and Cuba | 53 | |
6919635873 | Iron Curtain | Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between free and communist societies taking shape in Europe after 1946 | 54 | |
6919641605 | Marshall Plan | Financial aid | 55 | |
6919648539 | Berlin Wall construction | Built in 1961 to halt the flow of immigration from East Berlin to West Berlin; torn down at end of Cold War in 1991 | 56 | |
6919658973 | Solidarity movement | In Poland | 57 | |
6919665887 | Soviet missiles in Western Hemisphere | Located in Cuba | 58 | |
6919669455 | Cuban Revolution of 1950 | Fidel Castro took over Cuba | 59 | |
6919671973 | Indira Gandhi | Daughter of Jawaharla Nehru; installed as a figurehead prime minister and central figure in Indian politics | 60 | |
6919690374 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Religious ruler of Iran who tried to eliminate western influences and establish a purely Islamic government | 61 | |
6919698309 | Saddam Hussein | Former president of Iraq | 62 | |
6919714757 | Nelson Mandela | First black president of South Africa | 63 |
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