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1. 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
Sandinista
Balance of power
Monotheism
Abbasid Dynasty
2. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Diaspora
Safavid Empire
Pax Romana
Caliphate
3. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Delhi
Zen
Fresco
Mandate System
4. A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. (p. 284)
Hydrogen bomb
1325 CE
Mycenae
Uigurs
5. 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.
Absolutism
Isfahan
Marco Polo
Asoka
6. 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.
Cossaks
Plato
Investiture
Byzantine Empire
7. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Stock exchange
Persian Wars
Dharma
Qin
8. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby
Kepler
Mesopotamia
Ziggurat
Alexander the Great
9. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Diaspora
Ethiopia
Juan Peron
Teotihuacan
10. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
1521
1689
Mansa Musa
Carthage
11. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
Josiah Wedgwood
1885
Printing press
Minoan
12. 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
Humanists
Opium Wars
Botany Bay
1885
13. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Parthians
Franz Ferdinand
Five Year Plans
Empiricism
14. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Agricultural Revolution
Khmer Empire
Mahabharata
Tanzimat
15. The unification of opposing people - ideas - or practices
Fascist Party
Philip II
Syncretism
Fresco
16. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
1347 CE
Gens de couleur
Maximillien Robespierre
Benjamin Franklin
17. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Peloponnesian War
Vladimir Lenin
1521
1994
18. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.
Pericles
Paleolithic
Salvador Allende
Comfort girls
19. Date: 9/11 Attacks
2001
Serf
Caravel
Suleiman the Magnificent
20. Date: First Crusade(Hint: ___5 CE)
1095 CE
Abolition
Benito Mussolini
Cottage industry
21. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Nuclear nonproliferation
Memphis
Charles de Gaulle
Charles Darwin
22. 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
Champa Rice
Caste system
Humanism
Artha-sastra
23. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Teotihuacan
Sumerians
Sepoy
1815
24. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Albert Einstein
Gens de couleur
Muhammad
Karl Marx
25. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Delhi
1994
Muhammad
Alexander the Great
26. 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.
Dirty War
Porfirio Díaz
Socrates
Philosophes
27. Chinese ethical and philosophical teachings of Confucius which emphasized education - family - peace - and justice
Scientific Revolution
Khomeini
Confucianism
Plebeians
28. Opposing or even destroying images - especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.
Iconoclast
Fransisco Pizarro
Khubilai Khan
Hundred Years War
29. 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)
Stoicism
Czar
Monasticism
Abolition
30. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
Sigmund Freud
Zoroastrianism
Sun Yat-sen
Atlantic System
31. 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.
Peloponnesian War
Ghana
Napoleon Bonaparte
Macartney Mission
32. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Great Circuit
Opium Wars
Hiroshima
Zen
33. Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east - Spain and the British Isles in the west. Conquered by Roma
Cyrus II
Sanskrit
Celts
Jesuits
34. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Tributary system
Peloponnesian War
Byzantine Empire
Twelve Tables
35. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Postmodernism
Abbasid Dynasty
Nonaligned
Mikhail Gorbachev
36. 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
Shang
Great Zimbabwe
Christopher Columbus
Little Ice Age
37. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Montezuma II
Tanakh
Huguenot
Buddha
38. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Janissaries
Maximillien Robespierre
Eva Peron
Silk Road
39. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Hegemony
Meiji Restoration
Indian Ocean
Shamanism
40. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Suleiman the Magnificent
1945
Balfour Declaration
Jacobins
41. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Grand Canal
Warsaw Pact
loess
Darius I
42. The founder of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
Cold War
Minoan
Syncretism
43. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Jesuits
Fascist Party
Estates General
Little Ice Age
44. Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate - Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox - and his descendants - the Timurids - maintained his empir
Timur
Four Noble Truths
Sigmund Freud
assimilation
45. Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. (See also Warsaw Pact.)
Mughal Empire
NATO
Ziggurat
McCarthyism
46. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
New Economic Policy
Hoplite
Indian Civil Service
Hatshepsut
47. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
Cottage industry
Quran
Manchus
Leonardo da Vinci
48. The extension of political rule by one people over other - different peoples. First done by Sargon of Akkad to the Sumerian city states.
Plebeians
Pericles
Imperialism
Syncretism
49. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Deism
Goths
Balance of power
Young Turks
50. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Mandate of Heaven
Apostle Paul
Chiefdom
Cecil Rhodes
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