Europe and Rusia
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- European nations colonized other countries because they wanted
- more raw materials ans customers
- Augustus Caesar
- first emperor of the Roman Empire
- One of ancient Rome's greatest contributions to the world was
- an organized system of written laws
- Archduke Francis Ferdinand
- his assassination triggered the outbreak of WOrld War I
- Martin Luther
- criticized the Catholic Church and started the Protestant Reformation
- Rennaissance
- time period in European history when the way a rebirth of learning and art
- Henry Bessemer
- developed an improved method of making steel
- city-state
- a city that is also an independent nation
- Socrates
- taught others to uses reason to find the truth; was killed for his teachings
- appeasement
- making concessions to preserve the peace
- Benito Mussolini
- Facist leader of Italy before and during World War II
- colony
- a territory ruled by a distant nation
- Henry Ford
- improved factories by developing the assembly line
- feudalism
- system of rule by lords who were loyal to a king
- James Watt
- improved the steam engine
- humanism
- an approach to knowledge that focused on improving the world
- During the Scientific Revolution, scientists ased their threories on information they had
- tested
- reparations
-
payment for war damages
- Napoleon
- became the ruler of France after the French Revolution; sought to build an empire
- Adolf Hitler
- Nazi leader of Germany before and during World War II
- Johann Gutenberg
- first to develop the printing press in Europe
- middle class
- group of people economically between the poor and the very rich
- The idea of democracy came from
- Alexander the Great
- revolution
- far reaching change
- Which war between the US and the Soviet Union (Russia) lasted from 1945 to 1991?
- the Cold War
- manor
- village and surrounding lands administered by a lord
- Michelangelo
- Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel
- democracy
- a government where the people rule themselves
- Plato
- bstudent of Socrates; wrote down Socrates teachings
- Middle Ages
-
time period in Europe between ancient and modern times
- monarchy
- a country ruled by a king or a queen
- empire
- large collection of people and lands ruled by a single government
- acropolis
- hill-top fortress
- textile
- a cloth product
- serf
-
a person who lived on and farmed a lord's land in feudal times
- blitzkrieg
- lightning was
- Industrial Revolution
- time period in European history when the way good were produced changed
- Pax Romana
- the first 200 years of the Roam Empire which were very peaceful
- Alexander the Great
- created Hellenistic civilization by expanding his empire
- absolute monarch
- government in which the king or queen has complete control and power
- Enlightenment
- time period when philosophers introduced ideas of freedom and equality for all people
- alliance
- mutual agreement between countries to protect and defend each other
- imperialism
- the practice of taking over other lands and turning them into colonies
- nationalism
-
pride in ones country; elevation on one's own nation above others