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1. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
Western Front
Grand Canal
Pearl Harbor
Aristotle
2. A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia - he initially persecuted the followers of Jesus but - according to Christian belief - after receiving a revelation on the road to Syrian Damascus - he became arguably the most significant figure in the
Apostle Paul
Balfour Declaration
Muhammad Ali
1939
3. 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
Jenne-Jeno
Centuries
Divine Right of Kings
Stoicism
4. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.
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5. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Aryans
1492
Samsara
1433 CE
6. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Pericles
Talmud
Napoleonic Wars
Roman Senate
7. Honorific name of Octavian - founder of the Roman Principate - the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor.
Caesar Augustus
Qin
Yellow River
Rajputs
8. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
1815
Junk
Bhagavad-Gita
Driver
9. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Caste system
Empiricism
Stoicism
Satrapy
10. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Treaty of Versailles
Karl Marx
Italian Renaissance
Zaibatsu
11. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Sokoto Caliphate
Satrapy
Glorious Revolution
333 CE
12. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Medieval
Revolutions of 1848
Ziggurat
Great Circuit
13. The fulfillment of social and religious duties in Hinduism
Muhammad
Dharma
Sumer
Tao-te Ching
14. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
McCarthyism
Diffusion
Reconquista
John F. Kennedy
15. German princely family who ruled in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and controlled most of Central Europe
Habsburgs
Babylon
Pax Romana
95 Theses
16. British passenger ship holding Americans that sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915 by German U-Boats killing 1 -198 people. It was decisive in turning public favor against Germany and bringing America into WWI.
1683
Colonialism
Lusitania
Warring States Period
17. The formula - brought to China in the 400s or 500s - was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs - shot - and bullets.
Gunpowder
Caesar Augustus
Prince Henry The Navigator
Nomad
18. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Abbasid Caliphate
Cold War
Pilgrimage
John F. Kennedy
19. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ptolemy
Pax Romana
Jizya
20. He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan.
Han
Yuan Empire
Rajputs
Empress Wu
21. Term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity. It has roots in ancient Vedic - Buddhist - and south Indian religious concepts and practices.
Islam
Hinduism
Modernization
1954
22. A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries C.E. - based on the ambiguous title princeps ('first citizen') adopted by Augustus to conceal his military dictatorship.
Roman Principate
Ming
Sikhs
Apostle Paul
23. Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with many deaths.
Tributary system
Stalingrad
Italian Renaissance
Tiananmen Square
24. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Repartimiento
Consul
Israel
Monophysites
25. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Constitutionalism
Mita
Economic sanctions
Devshirme
26. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Shi Huangdi
urbanization
Vladimir Lenin
Punic Wars
27. 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.
1853
Sikhs
Taiping Rebellion
Capitalism
28. Weaving - sewing - carving - and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers - frequently women - are usually independent. Most manufacturing was done this way before the industrial revolution.
Cottage industry
Tanakh
Pax Romana
Balfour Declaration
29. Date: end of WWII
1945
Cultural imperialism
Silk Road
Balance of power
30. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Agricultural Revolution
Caravel
Cottage industry
Umma
31. Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.
1959
Crusades
Patricians
Pericles
32. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Plebeians
Printing press
Dar al-Islam
33. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
League of Nations
cuneiform
Humanism
Hammurabi
34. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Five Year Plans
Mantra
Cyrus
French Revolution
35. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Botany Bay
Great Circuit
Napoleon
Mita
36. Date: Iron Age(Hint: 1_00 BCE)
Holocaust
Jizya
1300 BCE
Five Year Plans
37. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Zhou dynasty
Meiji Restoration
Diffusion
Bengal
38. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Dutch West India Company
Albert Einstein
Asante
Iroquois Confederacy
39. Date: End of Han Dynasty(Hint: _20 CE)
Babylon
Alexander the Great
220 CE
Constantine
40. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Max Planck
Mandate of Heaven
Empress Dowager Cixi
Tennis Court Oath
41. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Enlightenment
Fransisco Pizarro
Ma'at
Papyrus
42. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Estates General
1962
Postmodernism
1949
43. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
Shi'a
Horse collar
Dar al-Islam
Muscovy
44. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Bourgeoisie
Mass production
Black Death
Durbar
45. Associations like those of merchants or artisans - organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members - and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
ziggurat
Guild
Nuremberg Trials
Nubians
46. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Kepler
Abbasid Caliphate
Democracy
47. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
hadith
Vishnu
Sikhs
Mughal Empire
48. Date: 9/11 Attacks
Getulio Vargas
Safavid Empire
1618
2001
49. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Liu Bang
Roman Republic
Atahualpa
50. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.
Monasticism
Constantinople
1956
Israel
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