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1. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
Jizya
Guild
4th century CE
assimilation
2. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
Abolition
Stone Age
Talmud
Mestizo
3. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Roman Republic
1857
Nubians
Habsburg
4. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
James Watt
Bolsheviks
Golden Horde
Gulag
5. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Proxy wars
Darius I
Ibn Battuta
Neolithic
6. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
Mongols
African National Congress
Yongle
Victorian Age
7. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
1517
Samsara
Indian Civil Service
Maya
8. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Mercantilism
Extraterritoriality
Darius I
Alexander the Great
9. Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within the Muslim empire
Teotihuacan
Postmodernism
Jizya
Charlemagne
10. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Constitutionalism
Sub-Saharan Africa
Constantinople
Atahualpa
11. 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
Submarine telegraph cables
Gothic Cathedrals
Vladimir Lenin
Tang Empire
12. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
Fascism
Daoism
Pax Romana
Empress Dowager Cixi
13. A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins - experiences - beliefs - and practices of the early Hebrew people. Most of the extant text was compiled by members of the priestly class in the fifth century B.C.E.
Colonialism
Hebrew Bible
Qing Empire
Holocaust
14. 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
Buddhism
Guild
Mita
Mahabharata
15. 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.
Solidarity
Guild
1776
Fresco
16. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Berlin Conference
Mamluks
Berlin Blockade
Hacienda
17. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Empress Dowager Cixi
United Nations
1839
Uigurs
18. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Wheel of Life
Richard Arkwright
Assimilation
Young Turks
19. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
1071 CE
Guild
Hundred Years War
King Leopold II King of Belgium
20. Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia - founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital - Chang'an.
Malay
Tang Empire
Jesuits
Comfort girls
21. The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes.
Mita
Balance of power
Mauryan Empire
liberalism
22. Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. They eventually seized power in Russia in 1917.
Bolsheviks
Leonardo da Vinci
Mansa Musa
1804
23. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
Gothic Cathedrals
Mandate System
1095 CE
Balance of Power
24. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
vassal
Isfahan
ideograms
Dar al-Islam
25. 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
Mechanization
Treaty of Nanking
Sandinista
Mali
26. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Great Circuit
Berlin Blockade
Thomas Edison
Teotihuacan
27. 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.
Mycenae
Zhou Dynasty
Hiroshima
Tang Empire
28. 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
Zhou Dynasty
Treaty of Nanking
Hieroglyphics
Stoicism
29. Doctrine that states that the right of ruling comes from God and not people's consent
Yellow Turban
Divine Right of Kings
Augustus
Shamanism
30. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
10000 BCE
Uigurs
Sufi
Kievan Russia
31. An important symbol of Buddhism. It represents the endless cycle of life through reincarnation.
Wheel of Life
Plebeians
1066 CE
Empiricism
32. 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.
Mercantilism
Victorian Age
Consul
League of Nations
33. Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925 - the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek - who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
1861
Asante
Alexandria
Guomindang
34. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
Minoans
5th century BCE
Berlin Blockade
Ghana
35. 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
cuneiform
Rama
Telegraph
Cyrus II
36. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Hundred Years War
1618
Creoles
Humanism
37. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Yin and yang
Kamikaze
Zimmerman telegram
Neo-Assyrians
38. 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
Opium Wars
323 BCE
Abolition
Dirty War
39. Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (Hint: 1__4)
Aborigine
Congress of Vienna
Memphis
1954
40. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States - it opened in 1915.
Horse collar
Panama Canal
Qin
Steppes
41. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Nomad
Zimmerman telegram
Hammurabi
Zhou Dynasty
42. 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
Bourgeoisie
Deism
Daoism
Timur
43. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Janissaries
1905
Vasco da Gama
Diocletian
44. 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.
1066 CE
Hernan Cortes
Medina
Jenne-Jeno
45. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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46. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).
Porfirio Díaz
King Charles I
Punic Wars
Guild
47. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Enclosure Movement
Albert Einstein
Iron curtain
Treaty Ports
48. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Joesph Stalin
Mestizo
Yellow Turban
cuneiform
49. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Kepler
Humanism
Solomon's Temple
Gothic Cathedrals
50. Continuing the imperial revival started by the Sui Dynasty this dynasty that followed restored the Chinese imperial impulse four centuries after the decline of the Han - extending control along the silk route. Trade flourished and China finally reach
Tang Revival
Constitutional Convention
1347 CE
Zoroaster
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