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1. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Pax Romana
Botany Bay
220 CE
1433 CE
2. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church - begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.
Catholic Reformation
Jacobins
1898
Sanskrit
3. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Mechanization
Apostle Paul
Albert Einstein
Fransisco Pizarro
4. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Parthians
Tokugawa Shogunate
Hieroglyphics
Submarine telegraph cables
5. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Berlin Conference
Mandate of Heaven
Sandinista
Papyrus
6. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
Zhou
Sun Yat-sen
Bartholomew Dias
Centuries
7. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
1839
Jainism
Meiji Restoration
Indian National Congress
8. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Carthage
1571
Jesus
Emperor Menelik
9. Literally 'middle age -' a term that historians of Europe use for the period between roughly 500 and 1400 - signifying the period between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.
Richard Arkwright
Medieval
Ulama
Stone Age
10. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
assimilation
Scramble for Africa
Glorious Revolution
11. 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.
Hellenistic Age
Mansa Musa
Benito Mussolini
Atahualpa
12. A French Protestant
1989
Huguenot
Roman Principate
Industrial Revolution
13. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Laissez Faire
Indian Ocean
Devshirme
14. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Diocletian
Nation-State
Caliphate
1433 CE
15. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Manchuria
Janissary
Humanism
Crystal Palace
16. Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as - in early China - the cracks on oracle bones or - in ancient Greece - the flight of birds through sectors of the sky.
Divination
Collectivization
Copernicus
Indulgences
17. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
European Community
1910
1861
1945
18. One of the earliest Christian kingdoms - situated in eastern Anatolia (east of Turkey today) and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. The Ottoman Empire is accused of systematic mass killings of Armenians in the ear
Armenia
Israel
1910
Hebrew Bible
19. 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
1600
Sasanid Empire
Girondins
Protestant Reformation
20. Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities - but the large-scale implies central planning.
Mulatto
Concordat
Mohenjo-Daro
Balance of Power
21. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Muscovy
Napoleonic Wars
10000 BCE
George Washington
22. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Carthage
Bantu
Woodrow Wilson
23. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Jesus
Ibn Khaldun
1962
Hellenistic
24. 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.
Song Dynasty
Bread and Circuses
Stalingrad
Nation-State
25. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.
Philosophes
Bartolome de Las Casas
Semitic
Legalism
26. 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.
Montezuma II
Mycenae
Zapata
Berlin Conference
27. 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great Zimbabwe
Liu Bang
Proxy war
28. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Printing press
476 CE
Mestizo
Yurt
29. Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture.
Byzantine Empire
Getulio Vargas
Teotihuacan
Kepler
30. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Scientific Revolution
Emilio Aguinaldo
Republic
Economic sanctions
31. Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
Ibn Battuta
Theravada Buddhism
Adolf Hitler
32. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Simon Bolivar
Terrorism
1588
Mohandas Gandhi
33. Concession from Spanish letting a colonist take tribute from Indians in a certain area
Enconmienda
Hittites
180 CE
Treaty of Nanking
34. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Akhenaten
Mechanization
Bolsheviks
1929
35. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Printing press
Deng Xiaoping
Empress Wu
Ulama
36. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Nation-State
Mandate System
Roman Republic
Constitutionalism
37. The repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Deng Xiaoping
assimilation
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Mantra
38. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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39. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Mass production
Balance of power
1271-1295 CE
Apostle Paul
40. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Labor union
Emperor Menelik
Guilds
Zhou dynasty
41. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Guild
Dirty War
Middle Passage
Zionism
42. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
New Economic Policy
Ayatollah Khomeini
Socialists
1919
43. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Indian Civil Service
Black Death
Neocolonialism
10000 BCE
44. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Monotheism
Hellenistic
Mughal Empire
St. Augustine
45. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Woodrow Wilson
Royal African Company
Patricians
Silk Road
46. 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.
Armenia
Socrates
Teotihuacan
Getulio Vargas
47. Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew - Aramaic - and Phoenician. The most widespread modern member of the this language family is Arabic.
Mestizo
Semitic
Hundred Years War
632 CE
48. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
cuneiform
Realpolitik
City state
Zen
49. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Caliphate
Ghana
Girondins
Gold Coast
50. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
1861
Shogun
Mecca
Caravel
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