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1. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Ferdinand Magellan
Xia
Agricultural Revolution
Janissary
2. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Solomon's Temple
Ming
Acropolis
Kepler
3. 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.
Meiji Restoration
Persian Wars
Eva Peron
Puritans
4. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Juan Peron
Mahabharata
Guild
Comfort girls
5. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Joseph Stalin
Tanakh
Bartolomeu Dias
1071 CE
6. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Zen
Aristotle
1962
Bantu
7. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
1863
Polis
Akbar
Sepoy
8. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
Silk Road
Mercantilism
Hittites
Minoan
9. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Taiping Rebellion
1949
Byzantine Empire
Babylon
10. French General who founded the French Fifth Republicn in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969
1502
Charles de Gaulle
Mass deportation
Sepoy
11. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Manchus
Armenia
Balance of Power
12. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Mita
Iconoclast
Gothic Cathedrals
Catholic Reformation
13. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Yuan Empire
Roman Principate
Peloponnesian War
Janissaries
14. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Congress of Vienna
1271-1295 CE
Sepoy Mutiny
Peloponnesian War
15. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Kepler
Hittites
Battle of Midway
Champa Rice
16. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Capitalism
Cottage industry
Jose Morelos
Salvador Allende
17. 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.
Yongle
Buddhism
Macartney Mission
League of Nations
18. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
liberalism
Trireme
1861
Hieroglyphics
19. 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.
Hebrew Bible
John Locke
Carthage
Yellow Turban
20. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Macartney Mission
Roman Principate
Tao-te Ching
Humanism
21. Date: Black Death hits Europe(Hint: ___7 CE)
Empress Dowager Cixi
Papacy
1347 CE
Memphis
22. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc
Panama Canal
Separate Spheres
Richard Arkwright
Abolition
23. 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.
Thebes
Mao Zedong
Extraterritoriality
1815
24. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Leonid Brezhnev
1931
Philosophes
Timur
25. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Byzantine Empire
Delhi
Benjamin Franklin
Bantu
26. 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.
Neocolonialism
Humanists
Totalitarianism
Champa Rice
27. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
hadith
Warsaw Pact
Joint-stock company
Islam
28. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
1810s
Mita
Horse collar
Durbar
29. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
5th century BCE
Hegemony
Byzantine Empire
1066 CE
30. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
1848
Emperor Menelik
Malay
Umayyad Caliphate
31. Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome - but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Isl
Mandate System
Zaibatsu
Hellenistic Age
George Washington
32. Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Pax Romana
Hebrew Bible
Khomeini
Maori
33. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
1945
Quran
1756
Manumission
34. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Twelve Tables
1962
Deism
220 CE
35. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Treaty Ports
Glorious Revolution
Modernization
Emperor Menelik
36. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
Pilgrims
Civilian Conservation Corps
Paleolithic
George Washington
37. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Puranas
Samsara
Hinduism
Prince Henry The Navigator
38. The spread of ideas - objects - or traits from one culture to another
Nazism
Charles Darwin
Diffusion
Khmer Empire
39. The northeastern sector of Asia or the Eastern half of Russia.
Siberia
1941
Agora
Driver
40. Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes(Hint: ___ century CE)
4th century CE
Great Zimbabwe
Investiture
1914-1918
41. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Benjamin Franklin
Francisco Franco
Philip II
Witch-hunt
42. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Teotihuacan
Constantinople
Encomienda
Crusades
43. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Ghana
Gothic Cathedrals
Vasco da Gama
Civilian Conservation Corps
44. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Mongols
Five Year Plans
Muhammad
95 Theses
45. Capital of the Aztec Empire - located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150 -000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
Quran
Collectivization
Proxy wars
Tenochtitlan
46. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Peloponnesian War
Indulgences
Mali
Kievan Russia
47. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Socrates
Yuan Empire
Humanism
Laissez Faire
48. A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade - farming - and mining.
Sigmund Freud
Great Zimbabwe
Bolshevik
Empress Wu
49. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
The Golden Triangle
Mulatto
Taiping Rebellion
Christopher Columbus
50. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Enlightenment
1588
French Revolution
Vedas
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