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1. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Perestroika
Pax Mongolica
Macartney Mission
Toussaint L'Ouverture
2. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Druids
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Bartolome de Las Casas
Perestroika
3. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jizya
Copernicus
Yongle
Meiji Restoration
4. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
Benito Mussolini
Peloponnesian War
Shakespeare
Talmud
5. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
House of Burgesses
Long March
Grand Canal
Hoplite
6. An early Chinese dynasty. Not a unified Chinese state. Instead rulers and their relatives gave orders through a network of cities. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing comes from this period.
333 CE
Enclosure Movement
Shang Dynasty
Sunnis
7. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Malay
Semitic
Ulama
Leonid Brezhnev
8. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Thomas Malthus
Delhi Sulatanate
Pericles
Mestizo
9. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Cold War
Habsburgs
Repartimiento
Enclosure Movement
10. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Neolithic
1588
Cixi
11. The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Pilgrims
Abolition
Hadith
Jainism
12. War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism in the Aegean region. It went on for over 20 years. Ultimately - Sparta prevailed but both were weakened sufficient to be soon conquered by Macedonian
Peloponnesian War
Zoroastrianism
Guild
The Mahdi
13. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
1954
1898
Goths
Persian Wars
14. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Minoans
Hellenistic
Ferdinand Magellan
1095 CE
15. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Persian Wars
Tribune
Mulatto
Muslim
16. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Middle Passage
Sepoy
Pancho Villa
Sasanid Empire
17. Ruler of Athens who zealously sought to spread Athenian democracy through imperial force
Pericles
Comfort girls
Gentry
Legalism
18. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Mass deportation
Aztecs
Hadith
Nuclear nonproliferation
19. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Mohenjo-Daro
Empiricism
Agricultural Revolution
Socrates
20. 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.
Democracy
Asante
Alexander the Great
1848
21. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
476 CE
Yongle
Samurai
1492
22. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Vladimir Lenin
Safavid Empire
2001
Siddhartha Gautama
23. Date: Congress of Vienna (Hint: 1__5)
Pax Romana
Winston Churchill
1815
Byzantine Empire
24. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
Suez Canal
Muscovy
urbanization
Christopher Columbus
25. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
1521
Aqueduct
Sun Yat-Sen
Tennis Court Oath
26. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Joseph Stalin
1919
Rama
Karl Marx
27. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Mestizo
Neo-Assyrians
Jesuits
Balfour Declaration
28. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
Varna
1517
cuneiform
Shah Abbas I
29. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Suez Canal
Hiroshima
Timur
Mein Kampf
30. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Sun Yat-Sen
Sikhs
1517
Nazism
31. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
ziggurat
Iron curtain
Mechanization
Aryans
32. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Talmud
Plato
Separate Spheres
Asoka
33. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
Fourteen Points
Sigmund Freud
Umayyad Caliphate
Jizya
34. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Realpolitik
Thomas Malthus
Diffusion
Colonization
35. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Yongle
Aztecs
Helsinki Accords
Philosophes
36. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Alexander the Great
Horse collar
Martin Luther
Modernization
37. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Macartney Mission
Persepolis
Hatshepsut
Caliphate
38. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Karma
Inca
Zen
Pax Romana
39. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Umma
NATO
Grand Canal
Ethiopia
40. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Druids
Qing Empire
Perestroika
ziggurat
41. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Ghana
Byzantine Empire
Driver
Witchcraft
42. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
Centuries
ziggurat
Salvador Allende
Steam engine
43. System of government in which all 'citizens' (however defined) have equal political and legal rights - privileges - and protections - as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Demographic Transition -A change in th
Xia
Democracy
Francisco Franco
Creoles
44. Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt - designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.
Industrial Revolution
Samsara
Legalism
Suez Canal
45. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
1533
476 CE
Mahayana Buddhism
Mughal Empire
46. Athenian philosopher (ca. 470-399 B.C.E.) who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.
Vedas
1689
Socrates
Zaibatsu
47. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
1905
ethnic cleansing
Cultural Revolution
Hundred Years War
48. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
1911
Babylon
Siddhartha Gautama
1095 CE
49. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Gothic Cathedrals
Islam
10000 BCE
Cultural imperialism
50. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Mentuhotep I
Assimilation
Champa Rice
Dar al-Islam
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