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1. 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
Enconmienda
Young Turks
1618
Scientific Revolution
2. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Jizya
1689
Monsoon
Aztecs
3. The longest single poem in the world - about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Dharma
Mahabharata
Mita
Artha-sastra
4. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Nazism
Tiananmen Square
6th century BCE
1810s
5. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Siberia
Alexandria
OPEC
Juan Peron
6. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Ulama
Umma
Constitutional Convention
Shinto
7. 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.
Zhou Dynasty
Socrates
French Revolution
Constantinople
8. 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.
Jesuits
Korean War
Cultural imperialism
Shogun
9. Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire(Hint: _27 CE)
ziggurat
527 CE
Nomad
Nikita Khrushchev
10. 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.)
Song Dynasty
Little Ice Age
Pax Romana
Sun Yat-sen
11. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Napoleonic Wars
Congress of Vienna
Silk Road
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
12. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Iron curtain
Leonardo da Vinci
Ziggurat
Mein Kampf
13. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
1885
Ramesses II
Mita
Darius I
14. 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.
1095 CE
Constantinople
Estates General
Three-field system
15. 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.
1905
Hacienda
Black Death
Shang Dynasty
16. 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
Socrates
Gunpowder
1618
Protestant Reformation
17. 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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18. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Ulama
Hammurabi
Qin
Carthage
19. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Muhammad
Shakespeare
Reconquista
loess
20. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Mycenae
Keiretsu
Fourteen Points
Tamil Kingdoms
21. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Atlantic System
Darius I
Monsoon
McCarthyism
22. The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China.
Siddhartha Gautama
Ibn Khaldun
Dutch West India Company
Forbidden City
23. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
Christopher Columbus
Fascism
Salvador Allende
Siberia
24. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
Crystal Palace
Concordat
Constantinople
Marco Polo
25. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Sandinista
Great Zimbabwe
1861
WTO
26. Turkish empire based in Anatolia. Arrived in the same wave of Turkish migrations as the Seljuks.
Ottomans
Iconoclast
Scientific Revolution
Epic of Gilgamesh
27. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
OPEC
Berlin Blockade
95 Theses
Mercantilism
28. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Bolsheviks
Ethiopia
Gens de couleur
29. 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
Humanists
Peloponnesian War
Divine Right of Kings
McCarthyism
30. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
Joint-stock company
Manumission
1959
31. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Stoicism
Junk
Nonaligned
1948
32. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Diffusion
Napoleon
Martin Luther
Deism
33. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Roman Principate
Enlightenment
Yellow River
Civilian Conservation Corps
34. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
4th century CE
323 BCE
Three-field system
Mulatto
35. 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.
Atlantic System
1347 CE
1258 CE
Suez Canal
36. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
urbanization
Woodrow Wilson
Constantine
St. Augustine
37. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gold Coast
Fidel Castro
Crusades
38. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
1683
Hoplite
Conquistadors
Sunnis
39. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Hanseatic League
Jenne-Jeno
Shi Huangdi
Driver
40. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Safavid Empire
Manumission
Charlemagne
Legalism
41. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Simon Bolivar
Babylonian Empire
1959
Beijing
42. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Kievan Russia
1931
Jesus
Alexandria
43. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Siberia
Apostle Paul
Sokoto Caliphate
Philip II
44. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
Suleiman the Magnificent
Ulama
Nation-State
1989
45. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Papacy
Janissary
Treaty of Nanking
Punic Wars
46. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
1950
Siddhartha Gautama
Terrorism
Mechanization
47. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
Maya
Apostle Paul
Kievan Russia
African National Congress
48. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
liberalism
1991
Nazca
49. The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between around 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
Kamikaze
Syncretism
Agricultural Revolution
Teotihuacan
50. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Indian Civil Service
180 CE
Nehru
Nonaligned
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