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1. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Ulama
Caliphate
Qing Empire
Dirty War
2. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Umayyad Caliphate
1683
Charles Darwin
Mohenjo-Daro
3. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism
Dharma
Francisco Franco
Mahayana Buddhism
deforestation
4. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Roman Republic
Song Dynasty
Albert Einstein
Constitutional Convention
5. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
1533
Aswan High Dam
Olmec
1989
6. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Absolutism
Great Western Schism
Mass production
Great Zimbabwe
7. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
Enlightenment
Simon Bolivar
Humanism
Peloponnesian War
8. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
Hammurabi
1967
Leonardo da Vinci
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
9. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Long March
1991
Marco Polo
Jenne-Jeno
10. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Three-field system
Mandate of Heaven
Babylonian Empire
Leonid Brezhnev
11. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
Divination
Pax Mongolica
Sun Yat-Sen
Fransisco Pizarro
12. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
Mechanization
Sunnis
Hittites
Guomindang
13. 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.
1863
Socrates
Vedas
Neo-Assyrian Empire
14. Leader of the Russian Revolution; Bolshevik.
Postmodernism
Vladimir Lenin
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mita
15. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
pictograms
Kepler
Abbasid Caliphate
Mita
16. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
1956
Benjamin Franklin
Treaty of Nanking
Maya
17. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sandinista
NATO
Ibn Khaldun
18. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
1871
Sufi
Salvador Allende
Huguenot
19. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
1949
Jacobins
1600
Olmec
20. 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
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Mechanization
Han
21. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
Nehru
deforestation
Afrikaners
Tiananmen Square
22. Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations (Hint: 1__6)
1776
Tennis Court Oath
Ziggurat
Zen
23. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Tokugawa Shogunate
Helsinki Accords
Mass production
Congress of Vienna
24. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Richard Arkwright
1853
hadith
Alexander the Great
25. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Rajputs
Harappa
Sikhism
Cold War
26. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Papacy
Habsburgs
Malay
Balance of power
27. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Cixi
Roman Principate
Israel
4th century CE
28. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
Siddhartha Gautama
Absolutism
James Watt
Submarine telegraph cables
29. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
Mao Zedong
Winston Churchill
Jamestown
Black Death
30. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Mass deportation
Hernan Cortes
pictograms
Crusades
31. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
1839
Hieroglyphics
Roman Senate
Iron curtain
32. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Asoka
Mali
Napoleon
Agora
33. A term for the middle class. A social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. They derive social and economic power from employment - education - and wealth - as opposed to the inherited power of aristocratic fami
Economic sanctions
10000 BCE
Bourgeoisie
Solon
34. Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran.
Scramble for Africa
Ayatollah Khomeini
Humanism
Hydrogen bomb
35. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Cultural Revolution
Nation-State
Leonardo da Vinci
Holocaust
36. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Auschwitz
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jose Morelos
Safavid Persia
37. Spanish estates that were often plantations
Gupta Empire
Hacienda
Celts
Guomindang
38. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
1947
Cottage industry
Shinto
1863
39. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Isfahan
Olmec
Marie Curie
Fascism
40. A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India. It includes the Bhagavad-Gita - the most important work of Indian sacred literature. Mahayana Buddhism -Branch of Buddhism followed i
Lusitania
1861
Holocaust
Mahabharata
41. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Nongovernmental Organizations
1939
Empress Dowager Cixi
Enconmienda
42. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
Submarine telegraph cables
Thebes
Shang
1853
43. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Shah Abbas I
Asoka
Max Planck
Empress Wu
44. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Ghana
Tokugawa Shogunate
Tang Revival
Zoroaster
45. 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.
Tiananmen Square
Paleolithic
Papacy
Roman Principate
46. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
Humanism
Shamanism
Shah Abbas I
Devshirme
47. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Umma
Iroquois Confederacy
Rama
Code of Hammurabi
48. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Swahili
Glorious Revolution
Mohenjo-Daro
Pancho Villa
49. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Daoism
Constitutionalism
Nonaligned
50. Building erected in London - for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Made of iron and glass - like a gigantic greenhouse - it was a symbol of the industrial age.
Crystal Palace
Timur
Victorian Age
1271-1295 CE
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