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1. The movement of people to Urban areas in search of work.
urbanization
4th century CE
Polis
Balance of Power
2. 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.
Fascist Party
Maya
Asian Tigers
Shamanism
3. Boycotts - embargoes - and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies.
Economic sanctions
Bartolomeu Dias
Constantinople
Benito Mussolini
4. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Estates General
Caliphate
Qing Empire
Satrapy
5. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Bourgeoisie
Champa Rice
Electricity
1810s
6. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Gulag
333 CE
Bhagavad-Gita
Repartimiento
7. Date: Stock Market Crash
Apostle Paul
Sun Yat-Sen
1929
Benito Mussolini
8. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
5th century BCE
Monasticism
Zionism
Montezuma II
9. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
1863
Divination
Theodosius
Solomon's Temple
10. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
Steppes
Umma
Holocaust
Malay
11. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Olmec
Crusades
Hoplite
Muscovy
12. The process of reforming political - military - economic - social - and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies - often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies.
Fascism
Modernization
Nongovernmental Organizations
1914-1918
13. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Ethiopia
Crystal Palace
Guild
European Community
14. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Lama
Hittites
Legalism
Josiah Wedgwood
15. 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.
Israel
1607
Sumer
Diaspora
16. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
Tito
Great Circuit
Pancho Villa
Centuries
17. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Cultural imperialism
Sufi
Sokoto Caliphate
Muslim
18. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Gunpowder
Constitutionalism
Cyrus II
Byzantine Empire
19. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Guild
Taiping Rebellion
Reconquista
Holocaust
20. 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
Mahabharata
Manor
Siddhartha Gautama
Catholic Reformation
21. 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
1789
National Assembly
Treaty of Nanking
Nasir al-Din Tusi
22. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
1571
Scholasticism
Hacienda
2001
23. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
6th century BCE
Zen
Liu Bang
Henry the Navigator
24. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Ramesses II
Varna
Janissary
Czar
25. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Tang Revival
Italian Renaissance
1910
ziggurat
26. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Colonialism
Asoka
Gentry
Bartolomeu Dias
27. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.
Iroquois Confederacy
Sikhs
Mohenjo-Daro
Mali
28. Policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power.
1911
Marie Curie
Colonialism
Cultural Revolution
29. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1325 CE
1258 CE
Syncretism
Republic
30. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Otto von Bismarck
Zapata
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Napoleon
31. 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.
Keiretsu
legalism
Indulgence
Franz Ferdinand
32. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
assimilation
Protestant Reformation
Dirty War
Balance of Power
33. Date: end of WWII
3000s BCE
Code of Hammurabi
1945
Balance of Power
34. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
Darius I
Western Front
1941
Terrorism
35. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Code of Hammurabi
1271-1295 CE
Hieroglyphics
221 BCE
36. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
1949
Stoicism
Winston Churchill
1607
37. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Warring States Period
Polis
Mali
Horse collar
38. 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.
Durbar
Mauryan Empire
John Locke
Italian Renaissance
39. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
Humanism
Taiping Rebellion
Comfort girls
Helsinki Accords
40. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
WTO
Mecca
Extraterritoriality
Berlin Conference
41. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Weimar Republic
Moksha
Teotihuacan
1300 BCE
42. The founder of Buddhism
Zhou dynasty
Siddhartha Gautama
Pericles
1905
43. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Mycenae
Karma
1258 CE
Nehru
44. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Warsaw Pact
Saddam Hussein
Ma'at
45. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
1600
Tao-te Ching
Theravada Buddhism
Ibn Battuta
46. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Ming
Maya
Trireme
Hebrew Bible
47. Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England - he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920.
Zimmerman telegram
Sudetenland
Lama
Mohandas Gandhi
48. A French Protestant
Huguenot
Young Turks
Monasticism
WTO
49. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
1689
Glorious Revolution
urbanization
Comfort girls
50. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Colombian Exchange
Nubians
Marie Curie
1533
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