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1. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
1071 CE
Khipu
Driver
Cold War
2. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Serf
Asoka
Mita
1839
3. Government ruled by a single party and/or person that exerts unlimited control over its citizen's lives.
Totalitarianism
10000 BCE
Khipu
Thomas Malthus
4. Suffering is always present in life; desire is the cause of suffering; freedom from suffering can be achieved in nirvana; the Eightfold Path leads to nirvana
Malay
Balance of power
Four Noble Truths
National Assembly
5. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
Colombian Exchange
Han
Treaty of Nanking
Suleiman the Magnificent
6. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Yongle
Fascist Party
Hinduism
Fourteen Points
7. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
Umayyad Caliphate
Alexander the Great
Timur
Saddam Hussein
8. Date: French Revolution begins
1789
Ma'at
Balance of power
1989
9. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
1815
John Locke
Fourteen Points
Girondins
10. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Christopher Columbus
Ma'at
Movable type
Realpolitik
11. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Sun Yat-sen
Khomeini
Akhenaten
Great Western Schism
12. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Habsburg
Yin and yang
Totalitarianism
Peloponnesian War
13. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Sepoy Mutiny
Bolsheviks
Enlightenment
Wheel of Life
14. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
French Revolution
Charlemagne
Jenne-jeno
Gentry
15. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Sokoto Caliphate
Eva Peron
Daoism
Code of Hammurabi
16. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
New Economic Policy
Cossaks
1994
Colonization
17. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
Mycenae
Ghana
Stock exchange
Western Front
18. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional Convention
Sumerians
Pancho Villa
Augustus
19. Date: independence & partition of India
Comfort girls
Hoplite
Caravel
1947
20. Date: end of WWII
1945
Octavian
Yongle
Bolshevik
21. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Daoism
Ottomans
John F. Kennedy
Mercantilism
22. The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia - where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community.
Iconoclast
NATO
Umma
Mantra
23. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Alexander the Great
Solidarity
Aborigine
1618
24. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Ziggurat
Guild
Durbar
Nonaligned
25. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
Pilgrimage
Pericles
United Nations
1945
26. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Gens de couleur
Hebrew Bible
Christopher Columbus
Thomas Edison
27. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Hittites
The Mahdi
Napoleon Bonaparte
Steam engine
28. Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule (Hint: 1__7)
Constantine
James Watt
1857
1325 CE
29. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1066 CE
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1941
Centuries
30. Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity - obedience - and poverty. (Primary Centers of Learning in Medieval Europe)
Monasticism
Minoan
1949
Ghana
31. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Conquistadors
1324 CE
Mongol Empire
Scientific Revolution
32. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Stone Age
220 CE
Steam engine
Emilio Aguinaldo
33. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Cyrus II
Mongols
Mohenjo-Daro
Samsara
34. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Keiretsu
Caesar Augustus
Constantinople
Congress of Vienna
35. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Warsaw Pact
Ming
Pax Romana
Kamikaze
36. 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.
Ptolemy
Janapadas
1962
Tao-te Ching
37. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Mass deportation
Creole
Ptolemy
Chavin
38. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Panama Canal
Gujarat
Zionism
Enclosure Movement
39. 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
Zhou dynasty
Devshirme
1689
40. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
Pax Romana
Hoplite
Tiananmen Square
Industrial Revolution
41. Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
1948
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Diffusion
Encomienda
42. Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644 - which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.
Zhou Dynasty
Manchus
Durbar
Girondins
43. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Montezuma II
Yellow River
Steppes
Sandinistas
44. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Berlin Conference
Bhagavad-Gita
Thomas Edison
1502
45. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
Tennis Court Oath
Maximillien Robespierre
Siddhartha Gautama
Daoism
46. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Submarine telegraph cables
Agora
Herodotus
Humanism
47. The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
WTO
Hellenistic
Tribune
Sigmund Freud
48. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Yin and yang
1929
Absolutism
Mita
49. Date: Battle of Tours(Hint: _32 CE)
Kamikaze
Jesus
Hydrogen bomb
732 CE
50. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Ziggurat
Bolshevik
Napoleon Bonaparte
Eva Peron
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