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1. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Zimmerman telegram
Horse collar
Serbia
Israel
2. 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.
Printing press
Timur
Asante
Cultural imperialism
3. 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.
Hadith
Karma
Siddhartha Gautama
Lusitania
4. A school of Chinese philosophy that come into prominence during the period of the Warring states and had great influence on the policies of the Qin dynasty. People following this took a pessimistic view of human nature and believed that social harmon
Artha-sastra
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Janissaries
legalism
5. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Leonardo da Vinci
Karl Marx
Cixi
Marco Polo
6. A portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Centa Asia - consisting of a tentlike structure of skin - felt or hand-woven textiles arranged over wooden poles.
Kievan Russia
10000 BCE
Yurt
Colonialism
7. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Bantu
Junk
Napoleon Bonaparte
Witch-hunt
8. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Caliphate
Zoroastrianism
Asoka
1848
9. (r. 1865-1909) - He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the infamous ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
Fascist Party
Hanseatic League
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Tenochtitlan
10. 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.
WTO
Habsburgs
Tenochtitlan
Cuban Missile Crisis
11. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Gulag
Hebrew Bible
Holocaust
Suez Canal
12. A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.
Driver
Aristotle
Khipu
Aryans
13. 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.
Hinduism
Medieval
Nongovernmental Organizations
1991
14. A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for lighting - industrial motors - and railroads beginning in the 1880s.
Golden Horde
Electricity
Holocaust
Aristotle
15. Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hint: 1__5)
Khmer Empire
Monsoon
Armenia
1935
16. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Khipu
Abbasid Dynasty
Winston Churchill
Shang
17. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Comfort girls
Delian League
Tennis Court Oath
King Leopold II King of Belgium
18. Date: Rise of Islam(Hint: __2 CE)
Mita
632 CE
Jacobins
Persepolis
19. Political units in India in the years 700-600 BC. They are the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic (Iron Age) India. They are the earliest kingdoms set up by the Indo-Aryans migrants to India.
Francisco Franco
Medieval
Steppes
Janapadas
20. German astronomer and mathematician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries - known as the founder of celestial mechanics
Assimilation
Kepler
Hieroglyphics
Sun Yat-sen
21. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
1689
Jamestown
Witch-hunt
Macedonia
22. In medieval Europe - an association of men (rarely women) - such as merchants - artisans - or professors - who worked in a particular trade and created an organized institution to promote their economic and political interests.
Joseph Stalin
Guild
Atlantic System
Scientific Revolution
23. Date: Marco Polo Travels(Hint: '__71-__95 CE')
Khmer Empire
732 CE
1271-1295 CE
Rigveda
24. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Tribute system
Mestizo
NATO
Bantu
25. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
Prince Henry The Navigator
cuneiform
Railroads
Ghana
26. Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly - beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel - electricity - machinery - and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.
Manchuria
Divination
Tokugawa Shogunate
Five Year Plans
27. Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Mulatto
Chavin
Richard Arkwright
28. 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.
Asoka
Dar al-Islam
Socrates
Darius I
29. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Hacienda
Dirty War
Acropolis
Concordat
30. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Diocletian
Semitic
Stone Age
Manor
31. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
1863
Proxy war
Hoplite
Ulama
32. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Bourgeoisie
Jainism
Humanism
Ibn Battuta
33. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Khubilai Khan
Nomad
Stone Age
Ibn Battuta
34. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier - more limited - agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993.
Charlemagne
Submarine telegraph cables
Mein Kampf
European Community
35. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Cossaks
Pax Mongolica
Tang Empire
1324 CE
36. 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.
Habsburg
Romanization
Gothic Cathedrals
Durbar
37. 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
Mandate of Heaven
Guomindang
Inca
38. A technique of painting on walls covered with moist plaster. It was used to decorate Minoan and Mycenaean palaces and Roman villas - and became an important medium during the Italian Renaissance.
Hieroglyphics
Fresco
Iron curtain
1987
39. English overthrow of 1688-1689 in which James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. The significance is that Parliament made the monarchy powerless - gave themselves all the power - and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing
Cortes
Botany Bay
Glorious Revolution
Fascist Party
40. 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.
Meiji Restoration
Pericles
Diaspora
Babylon
41. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Silk Road
Shi'a
Mita
Nuremberg Trials
42. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Mandate of Heaven
Karl Marx
1571
Artha-sastra
43. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire - reached the Indus Valley - founded many Greek-style cities - and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Stalingrad
1502
Balfour Declaration
Alexander the Great
44. Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses (Hint: 1__9)
Ulama
1517
1054 CE
Mercantilism
45. The chief marketplace of Athens - center of the city's civic life.
Conquistadors
Maya
Republic
Agora
46. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
John F. Kennedy
Sokoto Caliphate
Perestroika
Mandate of Heaven
47. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Khubilai Khan
Sumerians
1776
Byzantine Empire
48. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1941
1899
Mesopotamia
1989
49. Completed in 449 BCE - these civil laws developed by the Roman Republic to protect individual following demands by plebeians.
Twelve Tables
Divination
Conquistadors
Manchuria
50. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Julius Caesar
Siddhartha Gautama
Mestizo
Liu Bang
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