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1. 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.
Warring States Period
1853
632 CE
Hoplite
2. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
Khubilai Khan
Cyrus II
Gunpowder
Divination
3. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Carthage
Balance of power
1853
Cuban Missile Crisis
4. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Tanzimat
Nomad
Humanism
5. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
Muhammad Ali
McCarthyism
527 CE
Civilian Conservation Corps
6. 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
ziggurat
Alexander the Great
Jacobins
Steam engine
7. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Nehru
Otto von Bismarck
Herodotus
1502
8. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Tang Revival
Sikhism
Warsaw Pact
Capitalism
9. Wars between Britain and the Qing Empire (mind 1800s) - caused by the Qing government's refusal to let Britain import Opium. China lost and Britain and most other European powers were able to develop a strong trade presence throughout China against t
League of Nations
OPEC
Opium Wars
Philosophes
10. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
Buddha
Wheel of Life
Scramble for Africa
Hydrogen bomb
11. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
NATO
Bhagavad-Gita
1607
Julius Caesar
12. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
World Bank
Zhou
Scientific Revolution
St. Augustine
13. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Catholic Reformation
1533
Assimilation
Armenia
14. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Mulatto
Jesuits
Bartholomew Dias
Forbidden City
15. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Albert Einstein
Colombian Exchange
Gothic Cathedrals
Napoleon
16. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
Chinampas
Bartholomew Dias
Quran
17. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Minoan
John Locke
Shogun
732 CE
18. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Kamikaze
Berlin Blockade
Romanization
Oracle Bones
19. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Karma
John F. Kennedy
1054 CE
Ming
20. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Sokoto Caliphate
Albert Einstein
Cossaks
Qing Empire
21. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
1857
Goths
Carthage
Monotheism
22. 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.
1919
Guild
Shang Dynasty
Modernization
23. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
WTO
Tribute system
Qing Empire
Inca
24. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Hegemony
Gold Coast
Bourgeoisie
Jizya
25. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
1521
Papyrus
Quran
Sikhism
26. 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
The Golden Triangle
Moksha
Zoroaster
Buddhism
27. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Hieroglyphics
Semitic
Abbasid Caliphate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
28. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Balance of power
Harappa
Christopher Columbus
Nikita Khrushchev
29. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
ideograms
Pilgrims
Sumer
Socrates
30. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Zimmerman telegram
Persia
Bourgeoisie
Shamanism
31. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
The Golden Triangle
Mansa Musa
Tokugawa Shogunate
Alexandria
32. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Pax Mongolica
Guild
Panama Canal
Francisco Franco
33. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Stoicism
Meiji Restoration
NATO
Karl Marx
34. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Philip II
Laissez Faire
Ptolemy
1300 BCE
35. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Artha-sastra
Carthage
Aztecs
Diffusion
36. 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.
1453 CE
Joesph Stalin
Black Death
Mikhail Gorbachev
37. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Sufi
Christopher Columbus
Suez Canal
Apostle Paul
38. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Aborigine
Tenochtitlan
Congress of Vienna
Diaspora
39. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Vladimir Lenin
Telegraph
Mali
Hanseatic League
40. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Golden Horde
Persepolis
Gothic Cathedrals
732 CE
41. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Columbian Exchange
Fidel Castro
Hundred Years War
10000 BCE
42. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Steppes
Dutch West India Company
1776
Protestant Reformation
43. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Mercantilism
Sudetenland
Janissary
44. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Postmodernism
Sepoy
Long March
1600
45. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Muscovy
Syncretism
Printing press
Three-field system
46. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Hieroglyphics
1776
Mycenae
Long March
47. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
Macartney Mission
Cossaks
Nomad
48. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Huns
St. Augustine
Gold Coast
Oracle Bones
49. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
527 CE
Song Dynasty
New Economic Policy
Code of Hammurabi
50. Roman emperor of 284 C.E. Attempted to deal with fall of Roman Empire by splitting the empire into two regions run by co-emperors. Also brought armies back under imperial control - and attempted to deal with the economic problems by strengthening the
Buddha
Pax Romana
Diocletian
Hittites
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