Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro overthrow the government of President Batista, seized and nationalized all lands owned by the Catholic church, and attempted to establish a system of shared resources to provide for the needs of Cuban citizens.

Germany replaced their Kaiser in 1918 as the Great War (World War One) ended. The new government took its place as a representative body for the German people.

England had long been ruled by a monarch when the country experienced the ‘Glorious Revolution’ in the 1600s. The monarch remained as a symbol, but almost completely stripped of legislative power. Parliament gained more power based on laws in the Bill of Rights of 1689.

Benito Mussolini is given power from the Italian King Victor Emmanuel in the 1920s. Mussolini says that communists are enemies, takes control of the army and increases Italian pride and nationalism.

Mr. Detlefsen leaves his classroom unsupervised at 8:00am. He returns at 1:15pm to find the classroom in perfect order. All 16 students were working independently on their various subjects and assignments. Most students were entire pages ahead in their student notebooks.

Chinese dynasties controlled various regions of China for thousands of years. Each dynasty was led by an emperor. Most of China’s population worked as farmers (peasants) with little-to-no political power.

Mr. Detlefsen leaves his classroom unsupervised at 8:00am. He returns at 1:15pm to find the classroom completely destroyed. The walls were full of graffiti, desks were arranged into two forts at opposite ends of the room, and Hanna, Rafa, and Emilio were tied up to the file cabinet with the shoelaces of Sofi, Flore, and Caye . Ben was swinging from the projector.

Democratically elected president Laurent Gbagbo in Africa’s Ivory Coast finished his term in 2011. Gbagbo refused to step down, even though another politician was elected to replace him. Gbagbo was starting to follow ideas of a...

The city-state of Babylon was ruled by a king, who had control over the city, but not the entire region. The king of Babylon created the first code of laws, to which all citizens had to obey.

After the Second Boer War, an agreement was reached between white people living in South Africa. Together, they made up about twenty percent of the population, but this small percentage ruled the vast native population. Whites had access to virtually all the educational and trade opportunities, and they prevented the black majority from having these rights.

Adolf Hitler used Germany's economic problems, dissatisfaction among people and political arguments to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933.

In 1979, following a revolution, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini. As the leader of the revolution, Khomeini then became the leader of Iran’s new Islamic state. He created a political system based on traditional Islamic beliefs.

In 1661 King Louis XIV took complete control of the French government. He created programs to stabilize the economy and declared that nobles did not need to pay taxes. He tried to establish Catholicism as the central state religion and launched many wars with rival countries.

How many years before the Olmec civilization began (1600 BCE) did the first permanent settlements of Mesopotamia (4100 BCE) appear?

Mao Zedong took control in China in 1949 and named China the People's Republic of China. In the 1950s, Mao developed the "Great Leap Forward" which pushed farmers into communes, took their land for "redistribution" and forced farmers to labor for the state.

Which role (purpose) of government does the picture most closely represent?

The Roman Empire built extensive canals and waterways to spread water to different parts of the Empire. This is an example of...

The picture most closely shows the need for which role (purpose) of government?

The Roman Republic started in 509 BCE. Hernan Cortes went on his first expedition in 1518 CE. How many years after start of the Republic was the Cortes expedition?