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1. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
John Locke
Creoles
Hieroglyphics
Code of Hammurabi
2. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Indian Civil Service
2001
Manchuria
Roman Republic
3. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Cortes
Leonardo da Vinci
Steppes
Perestroika
4. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Scholasticism
Artha-sastra
Marie Curie
Industrial Revolution
5. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Cyrus
Guomindang
Saddam Hussein
1517
6. 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
Socialists
Hacienda
Siddhartha Gautama
Opium Wars
7. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Daoism
Absolutism
Joseph Stalin
Hoplite
8. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Constitutionalism
Aborigine
Patricians
Postmodernism
9. 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.
Janapadas
Tiananmen Square
Hernan Cortes
Extraterritoriality
10. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Juan Peron
Assimilation
Babylon
1095 CE
11. German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
deforestation
Uigurs
Realpolitik
Weimar Republic
12. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Safavid Persia
Fidel Castro
Telegraph
Stone Age
13. 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.
Monotheism
Deism
Emperor Menelik
Janapadas
14. A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia - constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size - usually with a shrine made of blue enamel bricks on the top
ziggurat
Sokoto Caliphate
Charles Darwin
Napoleon Bonaparte
15. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Monophysites
Warsaw Pact
Indulgences
Berlin Blockade
16. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Junk
Oracle Bones
Adolf Hitler
Teotihuacan
17. 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.
Chavin
Humanism
Benjamin Franklin
Jesuits
18. Free men and women of color in Haiti. They sought greater political rights and later supported the Haitian Revolution.
Emilano Zapata
Sepoy
Gens de couleur
Socrates
19. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Bantu
Macedonia
Constantinople
Colombian Exchange
20. A worldwide Jewish movement starting in the 1800s that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel in 1948.
Zionism
Investiture
Hegemony
European Community
21. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Suez Canal
Guomindang
Bourgeoisie
Jainism
22. 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
Yongle
Mauryan Empire
Mahabharata
Great Zimbabwe
23. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Guild
Holocaust
Puranas
Agora
24. 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.
Fascist Party
Warsaw Pact
Buddha
Neo-Assyrian Empire
25. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Akhenaten
Olmec
6th century BCE
Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. Date: Beginnings of Christianity(Hint: _2 CE)
Confucianism
Ulama
Scholasticism
32 CE
27. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Mecca
Hellenistic Age
liberalism
Khmer Empire
28. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Serf
Jose Morelos
Jacobins
Italian Renaissance
29. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Samsara
Humanism
Kievan Russia
1618
30. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Ibn Battuta
Nirvana
Mongols
Augustus
31. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Driver
Western Front
Trireme
Sun Yat-Sen
32. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Macartney Mission
Legalism
1571
Babylon
33. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Josiah Wedgwood
Janissaries
George Washington
Caravel
34. A well known Italian Renaissance artist - architect - musician - mathemetician - engineer - and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Fertile Crescent
Leonardo da Vinci
Zhou
Peloponnesian War
35. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Sanskrit
Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
Swahili
36. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Divine Right of Kings
Cixi
pictograms
Hiroshima
37. Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished - Border Policy was good - but not well enough enforced - as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.
Ming
Indian Civil Service
Steel
Abbasid Caliphate
38. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
Telegraph
Albert Einstein
Karma
1989
39. Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing - allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page. Invented in Korea 13th Century.
Plato
1588
Cixi
Movable type
40. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Enlightenment
Theodosius
Carthage
Bourgeoisie
41. 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
Marie Curie
Persepolis
Confucianism
42. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
1885
Mycenae
Junk
1871
43. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
French Revolution
Cultural Revolution
Mestizo
Siberia
44. French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General - the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. nationalism -Political ideology that stresses people
Manor
Mamluks
National Assembly
Yellow Turban
45. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.
Investiture
pictograms
cuneiform
League of Nations
46. The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins - granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of these is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation.
Hundred Years War
Indulgence
Samsara
Gothic Cathedrals
47. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Macartney Mission
Cultural imperialism
1931
1911
48. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
Daoism
Gunpowder
Mycenae
Abbasid Caliphate
49. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Keiretsu
Stalingrad
Alexander the Great
Siberia
50. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Rama
Habsburgs
Nation-State
Mentuhotep I
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