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1. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
1433 CE
Winston Churchill
Nehru
Sokoto Caliphate
2. 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.
Ghana
Dharma
Aztecs
Monsoon
3. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because - in his view - population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Nuremberg Trials
Thomas Malthus
Malay
Prince Henry The Navigator
4. 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.
Gens de couleur
Fascist Party
Safavid Persia
Emilio Aguinaldo
5. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
Sasanid Empire
Roman Principate
Ibn Khaldun
1810s
6. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
European Community
Plato
Karl Marx
1347 CE
7. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Encomienda
Wheel of Life
Faisal
Delhi
8. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
1905
Constantinople
1945
Gothic Cathedrals
9. 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.
Western Front
Zionism
Babylon
1325 CE
10. 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.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Battle of Midway
Harappa
Paleolithic
11. A book composed by Brahman priests that contains verses and Sanskrit poetry
NATO
1885
Rigveda
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
12. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
The Golden Triangle
1271-1295 CE
Semitic
Humanism
13. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Hoplite
Kamikaze
Tao-te Ching
Patricians
14. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
Julius Caesar
Suez Canal
King Leopold II King of Belgium
1917
15. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.
Terrorism
Abbasid Caliphate
Goths
Holy Roman Empire
16. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)
Colonization
1991
Vladimir Lenin
Daoism
17. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
1810s
1899
Philosophes
Triumvirate
18. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Artha-sastra
2001
Suez Canal
Mughal Empire
19. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Parthians
Lama
Hammurabi
Malay
20. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
World Bank
Scramble for Africa
1979
Mansa Musa
21. The early Communists that overthrew the Czar in the Russian Revolution.
Bolshevik
Thebes
Janissaries
Conquistadors
22. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Champa Rice
Cecil Rhodes
Hieroglyphics
Constitutionalism
23. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
Guilds
Zionism
1839
Aryans
24. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Hoplite
Shi'a
loess
Zen
25. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
1899
Mahabharata
Peloponnesian War
Korean War
26. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Proxy wars
Habsburgs
Vishnu
Apostle Paul
27. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Sikhs
Witch-hunt
Roman Principate
Crystal Palace
28. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Abbasid Caliphate
Jacobins
Catholic Reformation
John F. Kennedy
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
Sandinistas
Peloponnesian War
Khmer Empire
Sunnis
30. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Tang Revival
Teotihuacan
Charlemagne
Guomindang
31. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Tang Revival
Teotihuacan
Julius Caesar
Huns
32. A religion originating in ancient Iran. It centered on a single benevolent deity-Ahuramazda - Emphasizing truth-telling - purity - and reverence for nature - the religion demanded that humans choose sides between good and evil
Warring States Period
Empress Wu
Totalitarianism
Zoroastrianism
33. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Sahel
Scholasticism
Creole
1054 CE
34. 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.
Abbasid Dynasty
Shang Dynasty
Ibn Battuta
1947
35. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
WTO
McCarthyism
1914-1918
Hatshepsut
36. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Hammurabi
Empress Wu
Enconmienda
Forbidden City
37. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
Colonialism
1054 CE
Tributary system
Nikita Khrushchev
38. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Samsara
Montezuma II
Treaty of Nanking
Hebrew Bible
39. The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft - especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Concordat
Movable type
Max Planck
Witch-hunt
40. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
cuneiform
Thebes
Teotihuacan
Olmec
41. 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.
Pericles
Great Circuit
Socrates
Botany Bay
42. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Bantu
Holy Roman Empire
Empress Dowager Cixi
Zimmerman telegram
43. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Extraterritoriality
Constantinople
pictograms
Imperialism
44. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Indentured servitude
Song Dynasty
Sun Yat-sen
Nikita Khrushchev
45. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Janissary
Leonardo da Vinci
Safavid Persia
46. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942 - in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in the pacific theater of World War II.
Alexander the Great
Battle of Midway
Hieroglyphics
Steppes
47. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Khubilai Khan
Monophysites
Getulio Vargas
Gunpowder
48. 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.
Kamikaze
Consul
Swahili
Hittites
49. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
Akbar
Abolition
Manchuria
Diaspora
50. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Stalingrad
Mestizo
Constantinople
Swahili
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