WHAP TRIO

Muhammad

Abbasid Caliphate, Sharia law

Prince Vladimir

Kievan Rus, Cyrillic

Urban II

Crusades, Investiture controversy

Tang Taizong

Grand Canal, Equal field system

Thomas Aquinas

Medieval Europe, Scholasticism

Sufis

Sultanate of Delhi, Dervishes

Byzantine Empire

Fall of Constantinople, Caesaropapism

Vijayanagara

Kinship groups, “City of Victory”

Inca

Terraced agriculture, Mit’a

Maya

End of world in 2012, Maize

Ming Dynasty

Yongle Encyclopedia, Junk ship

Song Dynasty

Neo Confucianism, Syncretism

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations, Capitalism

Martin Luther

Protestant Reformation, Justification by faith

John Locke

The Enlightenment, 3 Rights of the People

Thomas Hobbes

The Leviathan, “Social Contract”

Voltaire

“écrasez l'infâme”, Philosophes

Peter the Great

“Window on the West”, Westernization

Shah Jahan

Mughal Empire, Taj Mahal

Nicolas Copernicus

Scientific Revolution, Heliocentric

Ignatius Loyola

Council of Trent, Jesuits

William & Mary

Glorious (Bloodless) Revolution, Parliament

Motecuhzoma

Aztec Empire, Chinampas

Atahualpa

Potosí silver mines, Quipu

Vasco da Gama

Europeans reach India, Volta do mar

Bartolomeo Dias

Cape of Good Hope, Caravel

Zheng He

Ming Dynasty, Eunuch

Gavin Menzies

1421: The Year China Discovered America, Ahistorical

Cardinal Richelieu

Thirty Years War, Divine right of kings

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto, Communism

James Watt

Crystal Palace Exhibition, Steam engine

Napoleon Bonaparte

Waterloo, Coup d’état

Maximillien Robespierre

Reign of Terror, Guillotine

Toussaint L’ouverture

Haitian Revolution, Gens de coleur

Simón Bolívar

Jamaica Letter, Gran Colombia

Otto von Bismarck

Franco-Prussian War, Realpolitik

Alexander II

Emancipation of the Serfs, Zemstvos

Cixi

Boxer Rebellion, “Dragon Lady”

Matthew C. Perry

The Meiji Restoration, Samurai

Muhammad Ali

Egyptian rebellion against Ottoman Empire, “Sick man of Europe”

Cecil Rhodes

Scramble for Africa, Imperialism

Janissaries

Tanzimat Reforms, Devshirme

Joseph Stalin

5 Year Plans, Collectivization

Mohandas Gandhi

Salt March, Satyagraha

Nicholas II

Bloody Sunday, Duma

Ayatollah Khomeini

Iranian Revolution, Fundamentalism

Harry S Truman

Marshall Plan, Containment

Nikita Khrushchev

Sputnik, De-Stalinization

Fidel Castro

Cuban Missile Crisis, Communism

Chiang Kai-Shek

The Long March, Guomindang

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistan, Muslim League

Jawaharlal Nehru

Bandung Conference, Nonalignment

John Maynard Keynes

Great Depression, Deficit spending

Hideki Tojo

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Comfort women

Gamal Abdel Nassar

Suez Canal Crisis, Pan-Arabism

Kaiser William II

World War I, “blank check”

Osama bin Laden

Sept. 11 attacks, Terrorism

Porfirio Diaz

Mexican Revolution, Caudillo