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1. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
Sufi
Shang
Golden Horde
Caste system
2. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Lama
Guild
Epic of Gilgamesh
Mita
3. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Albert Einstein
1941
Empiricism
4. Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs (Hint: 1__1)
Treaty of Versailles
Puranas
1618
1521
5. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Agricultural Revolution
Zionism
Cultural imperialism
Indulgences
6. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
deforestation
Forbidden City
Proxy wars
1956
7. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Horse collar
Fascist Party
Gupta Empire
Swahili
8. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Teotihuacan
Bolsheviks
Paterfamilias
Siberia
9. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.
Totalitarianism
Mandate of Heaven
Qin
Teotihuacan
10. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Iron curtain
1517
Caesar Augustus
Charles Darwin
11. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very
1931
Khipu
Champa Rice
urbanization
12. The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship - divination by means of oracle bones - and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of this cultu
Maori
Fascist Party
Mantra
Shang
13. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Akhenaten
Serbia
Treaty of Versailles
Zhou dynasty
14. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
Sokoto Caliphate
All-India Muslim League
Babylonian Empire
Simon Bolivar
15. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
1911
Charles de Gaulle
Warring States Period
Victorian Age
16. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Peloponnesian War
1521
Empress Wu
Constitutionalism
17. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Suez Canal
Indentured servitude
Tanakh
Shakespeare
18. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Mikhail Gorbachev
Henry the Navigator
Bartholomew Dias
1899
19. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Yuan Empire
1898
Caliphate
Durbar
20. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Tribute system
Joesph Stalin
Silk Road
Druids
21. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cottage industry
Asian Tigers
Quran
1258 CE
22. German journalist and philosopher - founder of the Marxist branch of socialism. He is known for two books: The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (Vols. I-III - 1867-1894).
Junk
1588
Karl Marx
Mandate of Heaven
23. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
Joint-stock company
Witch-hunt
Ulama
Sufi
24. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Cossaks
Mongols
Siddhartha Gautama
Atlantic System
25. 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)
Monotheism
Peloponnesian War
Divination
Shah Abbas I
26. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Safavid Persia
1989
Habsburg
Carthage
27. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Islam
Zhou
Young Turks
Hydrogen bomb
28. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Zoroastrianism
Diaspora
Indulgences
Eva Peron
29. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Islam
Aqueduct
Joseph Stalin
Constantine
30. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Fourteen Points
Mulatto
1899
Sufi
31. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Republic
Mestizo
Helsinki Accords
Dharma
32. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Meiji Restoration
Empress Dowager Cixi
Hacienda
Semitic
33. Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence (1810-1821) (Hint: 1__0)
1300 BCE
Alexandria
Mahayana Buddhism
1910
34. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Constantine
Nuremberg Trials
Zoroastrianism
Tito
35. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
cuneiform
Sudetenland
Sunnis
Warring States Period
36. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Gunpowder
Darius I
Hieroglyphics
Minoan
37. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Sufi
Fidel Castro
Cyrus
Durbar
38. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Mesopotamia
Maximillien Robespierre
Steam engine
assimilation
39. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Xia
Talmud
Hieroglyphics
Bolshevik
40. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Empress Wu
Reconquista
Trireme
Cossaks
41. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Fourteen Points
Bread and Circuses
Submarine telegraph cables
Extraterritoriality
42. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Cottage industry
Monsoon
Islam
Roman Republic
43. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Prince Henry The Navigator
Holocaust
Zulu
Labor union
44. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Zen
Creoles
Leonardo da Vinci
James Watt
45. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.
Yurt
Nirvana
Warring States Period
Humanism
46. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Sunnis
Ghana
Quran
Holocaust
47. 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.
Shi'a
Shogun
Minoans
Julius Caesar
48. Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
1917
Oracle Bones
Pax Romana
Kepler
49. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.
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50. Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans (Hint: __33 CE)
Crystal Palace
1433 CE
Muscovy
Mandate System
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