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1. Economic system with private/ corporate ownership/ competitive market
Capitalism
Confucianism
Submarine telegraph cables
Caravel
2. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Sumer
Humanism
Kievan Russia
Syncretism
3. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
Treaty Ports
Yurt
loess
Monotheism
4. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Mesopotamia
Dalai Lama
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sepoy
5. 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.
Guomindang
Prince Henry The Navigator
Apostle Paul
Kievan Russia
6. The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. (p. 292)
Shamanism
Tenochtitlan
1885
Enconmienda
7. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Tito
Diaspora
1911
Gupta Empire
8. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Protestant Reformation
Divine Right of Kings
Ghana
Albert Einstein
9. Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.
Sunnis
Tributary system
1804
Swahili
10. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
World Bank
Hydrogen bomb
Warsaw Pact
1947
11. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
Oracle Bones
Aqueduct
Ghana
Delhi Sultanate
12. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
Creole
Chinampas
Cyrus
Tang Revival
13. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Mongol Empire
Bolshevik
Sandinistas
Alexander the Great
14. Many people (mostly women) were accused of this and burned at the stake in medieval and early modern Europe.
Witchcraft
Delhi Sulatanate
Bourgeoisie
urbanization
15. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Abbasid Dynasty
Vishnu
Suez Canal
Ottomans
16. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Mughal Empire
Polis
Zheng He
Octavian
17. 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
1776
Bhagavad-Gita
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Young Turks
18. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
1683
Nuclear nonproliferation
1861
Byzantine Empire
19. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution. It follows the Paleolithic period.
Neolithic
cuneiform
Catholic Reformation
Indian National Congress
20. Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median - Lydian - and Babylonian empires
Minoans
Empiricism
Persia
1853
21. 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)
Suez Canal
Tennis Court Oath
Babylon
Electricity
22. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Submarine telegraph cables
Lusitania
Hundred Years War
Persia
23. Date: German Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Gulag
Zoroastrianism
1871
Abolition
24. Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas (Hint: 1__3)
Trireme
Emilio Aguinaldo
1533
Christopher Columbus
25. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
Meiji Restoration
Yongle
Ziggurat
Bourgeoisie
26. Theory that all knowledge originates from experience. It emphasizes experimentation and observation in order to truly know things.
Satrapy
Empiricism
Hellenistic
Teotihuacan
27. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
Siddhartha Gautama
Manumission
1857
Colonialism
28. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Pax Romana
Napoleon
Acropolis
Beijing
29. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Guild
Vasco da Gama
Third World
Separate Spheres
30. 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.
League of Nations
Stalingrad
NATO
legalism
31. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Pericles
Sokoto Caliphate
Battle of Midway
Babylonian Empire
32. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
1071 CE
Bolsheviks
Colombian Exchange
Siberia
33. In Indian tradition - the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a 'spirit' and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. Used in India to make people happy with their lot in life.
Junk
Mandate of Heaven
Sikhism
Karma
34. 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
Muscovy
Cambyses II
Botany Bay
35. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment - torture - and executions by the military.
Persian Wars
Dirty War
Capitalism
Champa Rice
36. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Constantine
Proxy war
Colonization
Humanists
37. Intellectual movement initiated in Western Europe 'putting man first' - and considering humans to be of primary importance.
Great Zimbabwe
Humanism
Balance of power
Junk
38. An area of homogenous people that share a common feeling of nationality
Nation-State
Humanism
Olmec
ziggurat
39. Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification (Hint: 1__1)
Gothic Cathedrals
1861
Maori
Ming
40. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Great Zimbabwe
Atlantic System
Prince Henry The Navigator
Mein Kampf
41. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi
Tenochtitlan
Shah Abbas I
Industrial Revolution
Witchcraft
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
Atahualpa
1945
Bourgeoisie
Industrial Revolution
43. 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.
vassal
Yin and yang
WTO
Divination
44. A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Ramesses II
Delhi Sultanate
Sepoy
Scientific Revolution
45. New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE
Roman Senate
Maori
Shamanism
Tanakh
46. Date: Battle of Manzikert(Hint: __71 CE)
1071 CE
Labor union
Adolf Hitler
Stone Age
47. A Greek word meaning 'dispersal -' used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. Jews - for example - were spread from Israel to western Asia and Mediterranean lands in by the Romans.
Cambyses II
Diaspora
Roman Republic
Khubilai Khan
48. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Tiananmen Square
Joesph Stalin
Alexander the Great
Napoleonic Wars
49. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Railroads
Concordat
Serbia
Tang Revival
50. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Suez Canal
Akhenaten
Vedas
Humanism
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