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The only terms I need to study:

Carolingian Renaissance: a period of intellectual and cultural revival in 8th 9th centuries. Carolingian rulers. Tried to replicate roman art, failed.

Crusades: Regain holy land, 1000’s app. Call for help against seljuk turks, pope urban 2 arranges it

Estates general: legislative body till 1789, represent three: clergy, nobility, commons

Francis Bacon: mid 15’s to 16’s. English statesman and philo, founder of inductive method (scientific method).

Fujiwara Clan, japanese rulers, in 858, the emperor symbolic, they make chancellor (real control)

Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere: Japanese want to dominate the pacific.

Gutenberg Bible: germany 15th century, first book printed, by gutenberg.

King Henry VIII: Break catholic church, 1500’s, kill all his wives, wants son

Klems von Metternich: 1800’s, architect of congress of vienna, which determined what to do with the land remaining after the napoleonic wars

Lous XIV: 16, 1700’s sun king, divine king rights, best absolute monarch of europe

Malian Empire: sundiata keita founded it, renowned for wealth of rulers, mansa musa spread african culture. 1200 to 1600

Maximilien Robespierre: 1700’s, main committee of public safety, reign of terror

Mao Zedong: 1900’s big communist, long March.

Meiji Restoration: after mathew perry, rapid inustrialation, late 1800’s,

Ming Dynasty: 1300’s to 1600’s, buncha statues of soldiers for emperor, restoration of great wall.

New Deal: roosevelt, get out of great depression, public works

Nicholas Copernicus: 14-1500’s, first to form heliocentric universe.

Octavian: First roman emperor, julius’ nephew, defeat antony. 0 BC ish

Opium Wars: mid 1800s, britan china, regarding allowing trade, china before isolationist

Otto von Bismarck: 1800’s, German statesman, first chancellor, iron chancellor nickname

Peter Abelard: A medieval french scholastic philosopher, theologian and logician. Best thinker of 12th century.

Russo-Japanese War: russian and japan, very early 1900, korea places, japan gets territory

Shogun: Ruler of japanese land, fuedal japan, military ruler, fight against others

Spanish Civil War: 1936-39, nationalist vs republicans (communists), nationalists win, fascist dictatorship

The Seven Years War: mid 1700’s, all major european powers at war. Almost considered first world war, about a million deaths.

The Thirty Years War: mainly in germany. Start 1618, most european countries, protestants and catholics in HRE,

Thomas Aquinas: 13th century, philosopher and theoligian, natural stuff, summa theologica, yay!

Western Front: the zone of fighting western eruope wwI, german army first west. Trench warfare stopped in 1917

Five Pillars of Islam: Are the five major practices of the faithful Muslim: Confession the Allah is the only God and that Mohammed is his messenger; Prayer according to a particular ritual; Fasting; Giving, especially almsgiving; and the pilgrimage to Mecca if health and circumstances permit

Five Year Plans: during depression to boost economy, russia, the plan does not only pertain to russia but rapid economic development, russia did mostly industry

Four Noble Truths:One of the basic concepts in all schools of Buddhism, they are the truth that suffering arises from impermanence; The truth that ignorance is the attachment to impermanent objects; The truth that suffering can be overcome by developing an understanding of the ultimate reality;

Kemal Attaturk: made turkey secular, father turk, 1st president, early mid 1900s

Punic Wars: 3 wars between rome and carthage led to dominance of rome in west mediter.

Scholastism: The system of theology and philoso taught in med european universtities, aristotle logic, tradition and dogma.

Triple Alliance & Entante: entante: wwI, britan, france, russia!!! Alliance: germany, austria-hungary, italys.

Twelfth century reniassance: was a period of many changes during the High Middle Ages. It included social, political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots.

Vasco da gama: was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. Cape of new hope, horn of africa. 1497

William the conquerer: invaded England from Normandy in 1066; established tight feudal system and centralized monarchy in England.

Wilsons points:he Fourteen Points speech was the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I: some belligerents gave general indications of their aims; others wanted to gain territory and so refused to state their aims.

Klems von Metternich: 1800’s, architect of congress of vienna

Lous XIV: 16, 1700’s sun king, divine king rights, best absolute monarch of europe

Otto von Bismarck: 1800’s, German statesman, first chancellor, iron chancellor nickname

Francis Bacon: mid 15’s to 16’s. English statesman and philo, founder of inductive method (scientific method).

Spanish Civil War: 1936-39, nationalist vs republicans (communists), nationalists win, fascist dictatorship

The Seven Years War: mid 1700’s, all major european powers at war. Almost considered first world war, about a million deaths.

The Thirty Years War: mainly in germany. Start 1618, most european countries, protestants and catholics in HRE,

Thomas Aquinas: 13th century, philosopher and theoligian, natural stuff, summa theologica, yay!

Punic Wars: 3 wars between rome and carthage led to dominance of rome in west mediter.

Scholastism: The system of theology and philoso taught in med european universtities, aristotle logic, tradition and dogma.

Triple Alliance & Entante: entante: wwI, britan, france, russia!!! Alliance: germany, austria-hungary, italy.

Treaty Of Westphalia: Ending 30 years war, 1648, peace.