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1. A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class - and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi - appealing to the poor.
Indian National Congress
Siddhartha Gautama
Timur
Caravel
2. Empire in southern China (1127-1279) while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology - medicine - astronomy - and mathematics.
Song Dynasty
Zoroaster
Repartimiento
All-India Muslim League
3. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
Ma'at
1689
1935
Mandate of Heaven
4. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945).
Karl Marx
Octavian
Khmer Empire
Mao Zedong
5. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
180 CE
Treaty of Versailles
Champa Rice
Goths
6. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Holocaust
333 CE
Vladimir Lenin
Manchus
7. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Jainism
Atahualpa
Czar
Akbar
8. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
476 CE
Sigmund Freud
1258 CE
1941
9. Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center - and not earth.
Copernicus
1853
Song Dynasty
Olmec
10. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Great Circuit
Ethiopia
1789
Monotheism
11. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Manchus
Timur
Sigmund Freud
Indentured servitude
12. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Nazca
Jacobins
Victorian Age
Martin Luther
13. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Tang Revival
Guild
Vedas
Iron curtain
14. 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
Ibn Khaldun
Shang Dynasty
Stoicism
Guild
15. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Eva Peron
Cambyses II
Taiping Rebellion
2001
16. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
32 CE
Memphis
1756
Perestroika
17. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
King Leopold II King of Belgium
cuneiform
Qin
Plato
18. The central text of Daoism.
Tao-te Ching
Vedas
Hoplite
Hanseatic League
19. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
Aqueduct
Centuries
632 CE
Inca
20. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Hegemony
Columbian Exchange
Mass production
Salvador Allende
21. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Kievan Russia
1979
Muhammad Ali
Gens de couleur
22. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Capitalism
Balfour Declaration
The Golden Triangle
Mass deportation
23. 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
Daoism
221 BCE
John Locke
24. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Talmud
Guomindang
Third World
Pax Romana
25. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Thomas Malthus
Czar
Indulgences
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
26. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Artha-sastra
1071 CE
Gentry
All-India Muslim League
27. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.
Janapadas
Suleiman the Magnificent
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Fresco
28. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Nuclear nonproliferation
3000s BCE
Zulu
Napoleonic Wars
29. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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30. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
1324 CE
Western Front
Empiricism
Nation-State
31. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
Three-field system
Macedonia
Habsburg
The Mahdi
32. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sandinistas
Mandate System
Tang Revival
33. Arab prince - leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921 - and he reigned under British protection until 1933.
Scholasticism
Korean War
Sandinista
Faisal
34. 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.
Pilgrimage
Zoroastrianism
Long March
Delhi Sultanate
35. Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins (Hint: 1__6)
1863
1756
Persia
Capitalism
36. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Artha-sastra
180 CE
Prince Henry The Navigator
Crystal Palace
37. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
1600
Polis
Daoism
Emilio Aguinaldo
38. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Asante
Hadith
Indian Ocean
Terrorism
39. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Solidarity
Beijing
Tito
Serbia
40. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Constantine
Holocaust
Tennis Court Oath
Maya
41. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Ming
Meiji Restoration
Tang Empire
Max Planck
42. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
hadith
Crystal Palace
Pancho Villa
1095 CE
43. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
ideograms
Hundred Years War
Fransisco Pizarro
1325 CE
44. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
1607
Aryans
1861
James Watt
45. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Printing press
Byzantine Empire
Josiah Wedgwood
46. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Emilano Zapata
Thebes
Sandinista
Proxy wars
47. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Cold War
1258 CE
Concordat
Wheel of Life
48. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
1871
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Akbar
Guomindang
49. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Octavian
Plato
Vladimir Lenin
Yin and yang
50. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
1956
Nuremberg Trials
1857
Babylonian Empire
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