Section 2: History & Government

Question 1

City-State

Answer 1

Each city-state was independent, but was linked to other city-states by Greek language and culture.

Question 2

Middle Ages

Answer 2

The period between ancient and modern times.

Question 3

Feudalism

Answer 3

A system in which monarchs or lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty, replaced centralized goverment.

Question 4

Crusades

Answer 4

A series of brutal religous wars to win palestine, the birthplace of Christianity, from Muslim rule.

Question 5

Renaissance

Answer 5

A 300 -year period of discovery and learning, brought about great advances in European civilization.

Question 6

Reformation

Answer 6

The revolt and separation from the Catholic Church forming Protestanism.

Question 7

Enlightenment

Answer 7

During the late 1600s and early 1700s, many educated Europeans emphasized the importance of reason and began to question long-standing traditions and values.

Question 8

Industrial Captipalism

Answer 8

An economic system in which business leaders used profits to expand their companies.

Question 9

Communism

Answer 9

A philosophy that called for a society based on economic equality in which the worker would control the factories and industrial production.

Question 10

Reparations

Answer 10

Payment for damages.

Question 11

Holocaust

Answer 11

The mass killing of more than 6 million European Jews and others by Germany’s Nazi leaders.

Question 12

Cold War

Answer 12

A power struggle between the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, and the noncommunist world, led by the United States.

Question 13

European Union

Answer 13

An organization whose goal was a united Europe in which goods, services, and workers could move freely among member countries.