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1. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Song Dynasty
Constantinople
10000 BCE
Nation-State
2. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Caliphate
Trireme
Little Ice Age
Cyrus II
3. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Twelve Tables
Creoles
hadith
Glorious Revolution
4. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Indian National Congress
Zaibatsu
Printing press
1941
5. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Kepler
1947
Vasco da Gama
Aborigine
6. Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999).
Shi Huangdi
Nongovernmental Organizations
1839
Enlightenment
7. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Manchus
Enlightenment
Five Year Plans
Sumer
8. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Fransisco Pizarro
Neolithic
1885
9. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
Karl Marx
James Watt
Khmer Empire
10. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Tanakh
Mita
1271-1295 CE
Agricultural Revolution
11. 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
Aqueduct
Mahabharata
Bantu
Steppes
12. A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the native America
Buddhism
Mohandas Gandhi
Nomad
Encomienda
13. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
Salvador Allende
Francisco Franco
deforestation
1885
14. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Comfort girls
Albert Einstein
Girondins
Herodotus
15. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
George Washington
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
cuneiform
Iroquois Confederacy
16. 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.
Great Zimbabwe
Long March
Labor union
Mahabharata
17. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Indentured servitude
Colombian Exchange
Hoplite
Roman Republic
18. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Huguenot
Umma
1950
Postmodernism
19. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Ethiopia
Caravel
Neocolonialism
Mass deportation
20. Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines -Cuba - Guam - and Puerto Rico (Hint: 1__8)
Hebrew Bible
1917
1898
Constitutionalism
21. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Chinampas
Delhi Sulatanate
Nubians
Ibn Khaldun
22. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Apostle Paul
Bourgeoisie
Indian Ocean
Mass production
23. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
Congress of Vienna
220 CE
Getulio Vargas
1258 CE
24. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Patricians
Indulgence
Salvador Allende
Teotihuacan
25. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Tribune
Colombian Exchange
Great Zimbabwe
Mentuhotep I
26. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Solidarity
Mechanization
Mughal Empire
Legalism
27. Date: end of WWII
pictograms
Francisco Franco
Nikita Khrushchev
1945
28. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires - specially designed for long-distance commercial travel.
Armenia
Junk
City state
1683
29. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Mestizo
Monotheism
Ziggurat
Thomas Malthus
30. 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.
Enlightenment
Railroads
Papyrus
Philosophes
31. 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
Sokoto Caliphate
Tokugawa Shogunate
Wheel of Life
Zionism
32. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Proxy war
Colonialism
pictograms
Hegemony
33. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Hundred Years War
180 CE
Guomindang
1066 CE
34. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
1956
Solon
Daoism
35. A term used by Muslims to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely.
Dar al-Islam
Quran
6th century BCE
Mohenjo-Daro
36. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Song Dynasty
Constitutional Convention
32 CE
1948
37. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Alexander the Great
Confucianism
Hernan Cortes
Constitutional Convention
38. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Totalitarianism
Nongovernmental Organizations
Caesar Augustus
Solon
39. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Investiture
Ghana
Shi Huangdi
Salvador Allende
40. Date: Korean War starts
Quran
Zulu
Taiping Rebellion
1950
41. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
1095 CE
Caravel
Triumvirate
Empiricism
42. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
NATO
Akbar
Electricity
1433 CE
43. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
1571
1914-1918
1905
Macartney Mission
44. 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)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hernan Cortes
Dalai Lama
Bartolomeu Dias
45. Powerful Indian state based - like its Mauryan predecessor - in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture.
Guilds
Proxy war
Gupta Empire
Vedas
46. 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.
Hammurabi
Catholic Reformation
Sokoto Caliphate
Indulgences
47. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Hacienda
1929
Timur
Sikhism
48. Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. In the late 1980s this techno
Comfort girls
Tokugawa Shogunate
Benito Mussolini
Submarine telegraph cables
49. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
Capitalism
Guild
Getulio Vargas
1258 CE
50. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Vladimir Lenin
Wheel of Life
Cyrus
Leonid Brezhnev
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