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1. 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).
1521
Fascism
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Nongovernmental Organizations
2. Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred
Solon
Delhi Sulatanate
Black Death
Zimmerman telegram
3. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Perestroika
Hieroglyphics
Crystal Palace
Great Zimbabwe
4. A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable.
1962
Shah Abbas I
Little Ice Age
Tokugawa Shogunate
5. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
NATO
Inca
Cold War
Leonardo da Vinci
6. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
Telegraph
95 Theses
Sumerians
Paleolithic
7. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
1914-1918
Shamanism
Guild
Legalism
8. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
1689
African National Congress
Varna
Constantine
9. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Romanization
Kepler
Junk
Totalitarianism
10. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Mein Kampf
Zoroastrianism
Akbar
Investiture
11. French wars against England - Prussia - Russia - and Austria led by Napoleon
Monophysites
1914-1918
Timur
Napoleonic Wars
12. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Third World
Minoans
Monophysites
Mercantilism
13. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
House of Burgesses
Comfort girls
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Treaty Ports
14. 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
Pax Romana
Hieroglyphics
Italian Renaissance
15. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Monasticism
Khipu
Josiah Wedgwood
Tribute system
16. European scholars - writers - and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar - rhetoric - poetry - history - languages - and moral philosophy) - influential in the fifteenth century and later.
1899
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Grand Canal
Humanists
17. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Siddhartha Gautama
1517
Babylonian Empire
Constantine
18. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Atahualpa
Vladimir Lenin
Young Turks
Babylon
19. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Plebeians
McCarthyism
Perestroika
Charlemagne
20. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
Silk Road
Artha-sastra
Four Noble Truths
The Mahdi
21. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
Zoroaster
League of Nations
Constantine
Sigmund Freud
22. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Manumission
Civilian Conservation Corps
Submarine telegraph cables
Sun Yat-Sen
23. A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first short-lived Chinese empire (221-206 B.C.E.). Their ruler - Shi Huangdi - standardized many features of Chinese society and enslaved his subjects.
Yellow River
Babylon
1517
Qin
24. A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Indulgences
ideograms
Samurai
Minoans
25. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Indulgences
Trireme
Royal African Company
Scientific Revolution
26. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Joesph Stalin
Ptolemy
Emperor Menelik
Mestizo
27. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
1839
Socialists
Weimar Republic
Sub-Saharan Africa
28. 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.
Gulag
Divination
Battle of Midway
Oracle Bones
29. The plant that produces fibers from which many textiles are woven. Native to India - it spread throughout Asia and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places - including early Islamic Iran - Yi Korea - Egypt - and the US
Cotton
Silk Road
Hieroglyphics
Leonardo da Vinci
30. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
King Leopold II King of Belgium
1914-1918
Bread and Circuses
Balance of power
31. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.
Philosophes
pictograms
Bartholomew Dias
Caravel
32. 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
Emperor Menelik
Papacy
National Assembly
Stalingrad
33. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
ideograms
cuneiform
Aryans
Minoan
34. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
James Watt
Devshirme
Darius I
Concordat
35. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
Hegemony
Treaty of Versailles
Delhi Sulatanate
1839
36. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
1959
Great Zimbabwe
Francisco Franco
Extraterritoriality
37. An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany - founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Hanseatic League
Five Year Plans
1857
38. A slave soldier of the Ottoman Army
Monasticism
Plato
1914-1918
Janissary
39. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
Olmec
Steam engine
Girondins
Mestizo
40. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Asante
Theodosius
Jizya
41. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1258 CE
Junk
476 CE
Mechanization
42. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Middle Passage
Hittites
Jose Morelos
Stoicism
43. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Zhou dynasty
Gold Coast
Triumvirate
Vedas
44. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
City state
Socialists
1271-1295 CE
1991
45. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Indulgences
Hieroglyphics
Colombian Exchange
Hernan Cortes
46. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Enclosure Movement
Great Circuit
Cold War
Nomad
47. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Habsburgs
Jose Morelos
Battle of Midway
Hammurabi
48. English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
Puritans
Mahabharata
Manor
Gunpowder
49. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
1871
Berlin Blockade
Adolf Hitler
Aborigine
50. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Octavian
1994
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Safavid Empire
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