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1. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Mestizo
Sepoy
1989
Samurai
2. An umbrella term for people of diverse perspectives but many of whom typically advocate equality - protection of workers from exploitation by property owners and state ownership of major industries. This ideology led to the founding of certain labor
Socialists
1502
Woodrow Wilson
Guilds
3. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Medieval
Trireme
Hadith
Huguenot
4. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Pax Romana
Jacobins
NATO
Great Zimbabwe
5. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Thomas Edison
Sandinista
Ulama
1987
6. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Sahel
Nikita Khrushchev
Encomienda
Mestizo
7. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Empress Wu
Mercantilism
Adolf Hitler
Buddhism
8. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Vasco da Gama
Neolithic
Botany Bay
Constantine
9. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Pax Romana
Otto von Bismarck
Woodrow Wilson
Jose Morelos
10. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.
John F. Kennedy
Swahili
Nomad
Economic sanctions
11. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Ghana
Francisco Franco
Napoleon Bonaparte
221 BCE
12. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
1919
Israel
Zoroaster
Treaty of Versailles
13. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
1300 BCE
Keiretsu
Laissez Faire
Realpolitik
14. A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
Janissary
10000 BCE
cuneiform
Nikita Khrushchev
15. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Imperialism
Romanization
Aristotle
1871
16. 'Way of the Elders' branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It remains close to the original principles set forth by the Buddha; it downplays the importance of gods
King Charles I
Mandate System
Theravada Buddhism
Babylonian Empire
17. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
liberalism
Mass production
Ulama
Laissez faire
18. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Aqueduct
Winston Churchill
Zoroaster
Scramble for Africa
19. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Khmer Empire
1991
John Locke
Reconquista
20. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Constantine
1054 CE
Umma
Tang Empire
21. Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
1776
Zoroaster
1919
Khubilai Khan
22. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Mandate of Heaven
Kamikaze
Driver
Charlemagne
23. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Dar al-Islam
League of Nations
1917
24. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Laissez faire
Monophysites
Battle of Midway
Korean War
25. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Hebrew Bible
220 CE
Driver
Rigveda
26. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Pax Romana
221 BCE
Hittites
1962
27. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Alexander the Great
Benito Mussolini
Ma'at
1517
28. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Great Western Schism
Champa Rice
Balance of Power
Solidarity
29. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
1979
Meiji Restoration
Yuan Empire
Witchcraft
30. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Jesus
Caesar Augustus
1863
Cultural imperialism
31. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Kepler
Taiping Rebellion
Mentuhotep I
Alexandria
32. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Hammurabi
1956
Hiroshima
Samurai
33. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Balance of power
ziggurat
World Bank
1948
34. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.
Janapadas
Afrikaners
Suleiman the Magnificent
1899
35. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
Simon Bolivar
Yellow River
Memphis
Black Death
36. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Maya
Aborigine
Uigurs
1939
37. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Carthage
Hydrogen bomb
Aristotle
Asoka
38. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
McCarthyism
Columbian Exchange
Laissez faire
Sigmund Freud
39. Substance used for the domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the British
Suleiman the Magnificent
Gunpowder
Alexander the Great
Silk Road
40. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Great Zimbabwe
Fransisco Pizarro
Buddha
Trireme
41. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Muhammad
Charles de Gaulle
732 CE
Crusades
42. Date: Stock Market Crash
1054 CE
1929
Zulu
Ma'at
43. Networks of iron (later steel) rails on which steam (later electric or diesel) locomotives pulled long trains at high speeds. The first were built in England in the 1830s. Success caused the construction of these to boom lasting into the 20th Century
Railroads
Punic Wars
Hoplite
Stone Age
44. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Third World
Ramesses II
McCarthyism
Aborigine
45. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
Cultural imperialism
Diaspora
Byzantine Empire
Holocaust
46. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Muscovy
Mecca
Assimilation
Peloponnesian War
47. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
1271-1295 CE
1347 CE
Economic sanctions
Lama
48. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
Scientific Revolution
Alexandria
Empress Dowager Cixi
Zoroastrianism
49. Centralized Indian empire of varying extent - created by Muslim invaders.
Absolutism
Janapadas
Neocolonialism
Delhi Sulatanate
50. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
Muhammad Ali
1071 CE
Woodrow Wilson
Druids
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