What city is located at 39°N Latitude,105°W Longitude?

According to the diagram, what statement is true?

What did Machiavelli mean by this quotation from his Renaissance time period literary work, The Prince?

July 15, 1348 “The Black Death has come to our village. Thomas, the blacksmith’s son, died last night only hours after the first black spots appeared on his body. Lord Piers, our landowner, has ordered that no one is to enter or leave the village. He hopes this will save the lives of the people in the surrounding countryside. However, for us there is no escape.”

What is the central idea of this journal entry from a person living during the Black Death?

What was the importance of the invention of Johann Gutenberg’s printing press during the Reformation?

According to the map, which country remained a Catholic nation after the Reformation?

“The Spanish conducted slave-raiding expeditions along the East Coast before the Naváez and de Soto expeditions to Florida, a practice that had become widespread throughout the Spanish new world since the Columbian voyages. Queen Isabella forbade the practice, but the Spanish monarchs agreed in 1503 to what was later called the Encomienda system. Under this system, Spaniards would be granted an allotment of Indians who were to be protected and Christianized. In essence the natives became forced laborers who worked the land, labored in mines, and constructed public buildings.”

According to this passage, how did Spanish leaders in Latin America misuse the Encomienda system?

As Native Americans began to die in massive numbers from disease, where did Europeans begin to get their slave labor from?

What was the name of this important trade route that linked the New World, Europe, and Africa?

Conquistadors who took over much of Latin America by force came from which country?

What is the main reason most slaves died during the Middle Passage?

“It must be acknowledged that the term “republic” is of very vague application in every language...I would say purely and simply it means a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally according to rules established by the majority.”

~Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Which idea best represents Jefferson’s idea of a republican form of government

The people are extremely well qualified for choosing those whom they are to entrust with part of their authority.

~Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

Of Laws Directly Derived from the Nature of Government, 1748

Which best summarizes Montesquieu’s view of the responsibility of citizens in a democracy?

...reason, which is that law teaches all mankind, who would but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions

~John Locke, Two Treatises on Government, 1689

Which concept of the Enlightenment would the above passage most likely support?

Revolutions have most often occurred in nations in which demonstrate which of the following?

In exploring the relationship between governments and people, Thomas Hobbes argued that governments resulted from a social contract to maintain and orderly society. John Locke, another philosopher of the Enlightenment, inspired American revolutionaries by arguing that a new social contract could be instituted under what circumstance?

To which historical era is this quotation most likely referring?

The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day. Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals. The whole town seemed to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere. The steam-engines shone with it, the mills throughout their many stories oozed and trickled it.

~Charles Dickens, Hard Times, 1854

How did labor unions affect the lives of many workers during the late nineteenth century?

What do the events in the list have in common?

*Increased coal mining

*Increased petroleum refining

*Development of the Bessemer process

*Development of the incandescent light bulb

What new power source from the Industrial Revolution led to charges in transportation?

After reading the quotation below, what can one conclude that the author is describing?

I looked about the narrow streets of squeezed-in stores and houses, ragged clothes, dirty bedding hanging out of the windows, ashcans and garbage cans piled up on the sidewalks. A sadness pressed down upon my heart - the first doubt of America.

~Anzia Yezierska, Hungry Hearts, 1920

During the Age of Imperialism, what was the theory that one’s ethnic group is superior to all others?

An American principle that any intervention from an external country in American affairs would be seen as hostile

This type of rule involves the stronger country completely taking over all aspects of government and culture

The name of the conference in 1884-85 where European countries met to draw up the boundaries of imperial rule in Africa

The name of the social system in India where people are assigned certain jobs based on their social status. They cannot move out of which social group they are born into

Which is an accurate statement based on the information in the graph?

“Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”~Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

The quote best describes the effects of what?

How did U.S. president Woodrow Wilson plan to keep another war like WWI from ever happening again?

Which statement best describes Europe just before World War I?

What was a major cause of World War I?

“...The Nazi holocaust, which engulfed millions of Jews in Europe, proved anew the urgency of the re-establishment of the Jewish state, which would solve the problem of Jewish homelessness by opening the gates to all Jews and lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations….”

This statement is referring to the establishment of which nation?

Based on the information provided by the diagram, which statement is a valid conclusion about the 1930s?

During World War II, which event occurred last?

“...Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and many more would die - 60,000 by November and another 70,000 by 1950. Most of them would be victims of a new method of killing - radiation…”

~Ronald Takai

The situation described in this passage was the direct result of which World War II event?

Why are the leaders in this 1936 cartoon being depicted as “spineless”?

What is the best conclusion that can be drawn from these graphs about 1991?

What did the political climate of the Cold War cause the world’s two superpowers to do?

What was one difference between the war in Korea in the 1950s and the war in Vietnam in the 1960s?

What term used in the Cold War describes the division highlighted in the image above?

The United States and the U.N. can use economic sanctions to protest against countries they do not agree with (communism, racism, etc…) around the world. What does this mean?

The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement that created a trilateral trade bloc in North American and was signed by…

One of the major reasons for poverty, high birth rates, and inadequate resources to support the growing populace in underdeveloped nations is…

What is this cartoon saying about ISIS?

What kind of terrorism attacks a particular group of people and destroys their historical artifacts?

“Today, my fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices: secretaries, business men and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge -- huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong.”

What event is George W. Bush referring to?