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1. Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. It was sleek and light - powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers. Manned by skilled sailors - it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers.
Albert Einstein
Zoroastrianism
Trireme
Great Zimbabwe
2. 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.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Pax Mongolica
Siberia
Tenochtitlan
3. Roman philosophy which emphasizes accepting life dispassionately
Stoicism
Mentuhotep I
Zionism
Mahabharata
4. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Enclosure Movement
Charles Darwin
Sunnis
Teotihuacan
5. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Charles de Gaulle
Shang
Gunpowder
Vedas
6. The period from 475 BC until the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - characterized by lack of centralized government in China. It followed the Zhou dynasty.
Great Zimbabwe
1300 BCE
Triumvirate
Warring States Period
7. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1956
Conquistadors
Winston Churchill
8. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
Jizya
Darius I
St. Augustine
Shang Dynasty
9. 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.
Zoroastrianism
Monotheism
Constantinople
Nubians
10. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
John Locke
Joint-stock company
Muhammad Ali
Augustus
11. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
liberalism
Capitalism
Medieval
Charles Darwin
12. President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
Laissez faire
Warring States Period
House of Burgesses
13. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Syncretism
Safavid Persia
Gulag
Four Noble Truths
14. 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.
Western Front
Muhammad
Guomindang
Crusades
15. Compilations of hymns - religious reflections - and Aryan conquests
Bread and Circuses
Vedas
Nehru
1433 CE
16. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Capitalism
Gulag
Mercantilism
Stalingrad
17. Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture.
Mechanization
Postmodernism
Democracy
Perestroika
18. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Mantra
Yuan Empire
Sikhs
Bread and Circuses
19. The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E. - during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. (p. 148)
Repartimiento
Roman Republic
3000s BCE
Black Death
20. Title given the the Roman emperor Octavian which means 'sacred' or 'venerable'
Confucius
Augustus
Collectivization
Pax Romana
21. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Railroads
Bartolome de Las Casas
Twelve Tables
Charlemagne
22. 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.
Imperialism
Shi'a
Shi Huangdi
Octavian
23. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Totalitarianism
Nazism
Zulu
4th century CE
24. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Mohenjo-Daro
Habsburg
Nubians
25. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
6th century BCE
Rama
Polis
Khmer Empire
26. 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
Diffusion
Nomad
Tang Revival
Ibn Khaldun
27. 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
Grand Canal
Opium Wars
Ptolemy
Submarine telegraph cables
28. A member of the warrior class in premodern feudal Japan
Tang Revival
Guild
Samurai
Octavian
29. Date: Korean War starts
Xia
Serf
Syncretism
1950
30. 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.
Aqueduct
Mesopotamia
Cultural Revolution
Concordat
31. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
loess
Mahabharata
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
333 CE
32. 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.
Proxy wars
Imperialism
1095 CE
Divination
33. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
Akhenaten
Cottage industry
Laissez Faire
cuneiform
34. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Hacienda
Taiping Rebellion
Hellenistic Age
1935
35. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Muslim
Balance of power
Forbidden City
Hinduism
36. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Monotheism
Constitutional Convention
Liu Bang
Nirvana
37. Also known as Mexica - they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Caravel
Enconmienda
Aztecs
Jacobins
38. Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811.
Cyrus II
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Balance of Power
Leonid Brezhnev
39. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Huns
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
40. A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century.
Hanseatic League
Tributary system
Shakespeare
Zoroastrianism
41. 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
Siddhartha Gautama
Serf
Richard Arkwright
Ibn Battuta
42. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Safavid Empire
Stalingrad
Humanism
Cixi
43. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Tiananmen Square
Muslim
Scientific Revolution
Enclosure Movement
44. 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.
Jainism
Puritans
vassal
Glorious Revolution
45. 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.
Pax Romana
Neolithic
Romanization
Colonialism
46. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Jamestown
Gujarat
Cyrus
Indentured servitude
47. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Abbasid Dynasty
Israel
Nehru
Song Dynasty
48. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
1607
Janapadas
Parthians
Third World
49. Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
Plato
Shi'a
Bartholomew Dias
Creole
50. Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste - and Akbar I married a Rajput princess.
Constantinople
Creoles
Bread and Circuses
Rajputs
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