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1. Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Diocletian
Declaration of the Rights of Man
King Charles I
Tang Revival
2. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Afrikaners
Winston Churchill
Five Year Plans
Darius I
3. 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
Habsburg
Marie Curie
Diaspora
Devshirme
4. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Mamluks
2001
Carthage
1861
5. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Leonardo da Vinci
Benito Mussolini
Little Ice Age
Max Planck
6. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Josiah Wedgwood
Aristotle
Marie Curie
Medieval
7. The cycle of life in Hinduism
Sunnis
New Imperialism
Samsara
Bartolomeu Dias
8. 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.
Peloponnesian War
Zhou
Olmec
Ramesses II
9. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
1863
Hittites
liberalism
Medina
10. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
All-India Muslim League
Dalai Lama
Berlin Conference
French Revolution
11. 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.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Ming
Christopher Columbus
Steppes
12. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Caravel
Medieval
Memphis
Caliphate
13. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Hanseatic League
Emperor Menelik
Varna
Sunnis
14. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Mauryan Empire
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
527 CE
1954
15. This area possessed the biggest network of sea-based trade in the postclassical period prior to the rise of Atlantic-based trade.
Shamanism
Mandate of Heaven
1898
Indian Ocean
16. 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.
Catholic Reformation
Deng Xiaoping
The Mahdi
Hundred Years War
17. Persian capital from the 16th to 18th centuries found in central Iran
Bourgeoisie
Isfahan
Tao-te Ching
Vladimir Lenin
18. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Conquistadors
Nazism
Ghana
Peloponnesian War
19. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Ming
Empress Wu
Quran
1804
20. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Iconoclast
Babylonian Empire
Trireme
Indulgence
21. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Jacobins
National Assembly
1324 CE
Great Zimbabwe
22. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
Puritans
Eva Peron
Panama Canal
Timur
23. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Four Noble Truths
Khmer Empire
Abolition
Timur
24. Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the in these cities - foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
3000s BCE
Treaty Ports
Leonid Brezhnev
Neo-Assyrians
25. A major Mesopotamian empire between 934-608 BCE. They used force and terror and exploited the wealth and labor of their subjects. They were an iron-age resurgence of a previous bronze age empire.
Fourteen Points
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Sandinista
Sufi
26. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Ottomans
Leonid Brezhnev
Armenia
Alexander the Great
27. 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
Patricians
Chiang Kai-Shek
NATO
Young Turks
28. Literally 'those who serve -' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
1533
10000 BCE
Khomeini
Samurai
29. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Atlantic System
Sigmund Freud
Mecca
Western Front
30. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
1939
Daoism
Caliphate
Diaspora
31. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Shang Dynasty
323 BCE
Adolf Hitler
Columbian Exchange
32. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Ulama
Perestroika
Porfirio Díaz
Zionism
33. 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
Sandinista
Julius Caesar
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Sikhs
34. 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.
1871
Great Zimbabwe
Shakespeare
Gupta Empire
35. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Asoka
Minoan
Hatshepsut
Mita
36. 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.
Tito
1939
Socrates
Steam engine
37. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Realpolitik
Jacobins
Nikita Khrushchev
Memphis
38. 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.
Simon Bolivar
Ghana
Bartolomeu Dias
Mandate of Heaven
39. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Tang Revival
Nation-State
Italian Renaissance
NATO
40. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.
Parthians
Girondins
Augustus
Guild
41. 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.
Junk
Akhenaten
Socrates
Caste system
42. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Stoicism
Mycenae
Suleiman the Magnificent
Bartholomew Dias
43. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Aryans
World Bank
Mita
Bartholomew Dias
44. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
Pericles
Gens de couleur
Guomindang
Aswan High Dam
45. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Muhammad Ali
Jizya
Apostle Paul
Fransisco Pizarro
46. Commander of the Japanese army in ancient and feudal times. At times more similar to a duke and/or a military dictator.
Shogun
African National Congress
Minoans
Herodotus
47. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
ideograms
Gulag
Uigurs
48. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Indulgences
Balfour Declaration
Crusades
1815
49. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Scramble for Africa
1939
Korean War
Moksha
50. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Bourgeoisie
Mulatto
Royal African Company
Sigmund Freud
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