Wednesday, November 13, 2013

HONORS WORLD HISTORY

THE BENEVOLENT DESPOTS OF EUROPE, THE RUSSIANS, THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE, YEARS OF REVOLUTION AND CHANGE, REVOLUTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA TOPICS AND TERMS Hapsburgs, Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, Maria Theresa, absolute rulers, Joseph II, benevolent, despot, Hohenzollerns, Prussia, Frederick William, militaristic ,Frederick the Great, Spanish Bourbons, Mongols, Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrible, steppes, Cossacks, Black Sea, Siberia, Greek Orthodox Church, , Romanov dynasty, Peter the Great, Azov, Baltic Sea, Moscow, St. Petersburg, westernize, Catherine the Great, geocentric, Copernicus, heliocentric, Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe, Johann Kepler, Vesalius, William Harvey, Simon Stevin, Rene Descartes, analytic geometry, Wilhelm Leibnitz, Isaac Newton, calculus, law of falling bodies, William Gilbert, Benjamin Franklin, Allesandro Volta, Robert Boyd, Joseph Priestly, Antoine Lavoisier, Jamestown, Georgia, town meetings, New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies, plantations, French and Indian War, taxation without representation, Parliament, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, American Revolution, France, Spain, Netherlands, democracy, New World, viceroys, Napoleon Bonaparte, Venezuela, Francisco Miranda, Simon Bolivar, Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Jose de San Martin, Bernardo O’Higgins, Portugal, Mexico, Haiti, West Indies, Cuba, Puerto Rico, James Monroe, Monroe Doctrine, Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal Zone, A Man, A Plan, A canal, Panama

Monday, November 4, 2013

HONORS WORLD HISTORY: THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

TOPICS AND TERMS Reconquista, Marco Polo, astrolabes, Prince Henry the Navigator, Sagres, plantation, Bartholmeu Dias, Cape of Good Hope, Vasco de Gama, Mozambique, Columbus, King John II of Portugal, Ferdinand and Isabella, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, Arawaks, Hispaniola, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, West Indies, East Indies, Vikings, Leif Ericson, Vinland, Pope Alexander VI, Line of Demarcation, Treaty of Tordesillas, Amerigo Vespucci, Juan Ponce de Leon, Isla de las Pascuas, Florida, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, The Great South Sea, Ferdinand Magellan, Strait of Magellan, Mar Pacifico, Juan Sebastian del Cano, conquistadors, Hernan Cortes, Montezma, Quetzalcoatl, Malinche, Tenochtitlan, Cuauhtémoc, Incas, Pizzaro, Atahualpa, Viceroy, El Dorado, Seven Cities of Cibola, Hernando de Soto, Francisco de Coronado, Zuni Indians, encomiendas, peons, caciques, Bartalome de las Casas, Pedro Cabral, Northwest Passage, King Henry VII of England, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, New Netherlands, Dutch Guiana (Surinam), Dutch East Indies Co., Dutch West Indies Co., English East Indies Co., Puritans, Quakers, Jamestown VA., House of Burgesses, Francis I of France, Jacques Cartier, St. Lawrence River, New France, Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France, Louis Joliet, Jacques Marquette, LaSalle, Louisiana, St. Domingue, Haiti, French and Indian War, 1763 Treaty of Paris, circumnavigate, bullion, monopoly