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1. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics - astronomy - and development of the calendar.
Maya
Fascist Party
Totalitarianism
Muhammad Ali
2. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Totalitarianism
Yin and yang
Cyrus II
Habsburg
3. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Leonid Brezhnev
Scientific Revolution
Sumer
Nuremberg Trials
4. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Qin
Balance of power
Samsara
Scientific Revolution
5. Members of a religious community founded in the Punjab region of India.
Philosophes
Semitic
Zheng He
Sikhs
6. When colonists were allowed to use Indians for forced labor in colonial South America - also known as the repartimiento system
Chiefdom
Mita
Shah Abbas I
Fresco
7. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
George Washington
Carthage
Victorian Age
Khomeini
8. Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto (Hint: 1__8)
Great Circuit
1848
Teotihuacan
Martin Luther
9. Date: Korean War starts
McCarthyism
1950
1911
Marco Polo
10. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
National Assembly
Artha-sastra
Monotheism
Sikhism
11. Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871 - when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist - he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire
Otto von Bismarck
Monsoon
Constitutionalism
1095 CE
12. 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.
Horse collar
Muscovy
Nubians
Liu Bang
13. 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.
Forbidden City
Gunpowder
Royal African Company
Richard Arkwright
14. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Scientific Revolution
Carthage
National Assembly
Mamluks
15. Date: Pearl Harbor - entry of US into WWII
1941
African National Congress
Laissez Faire
Franz Ferdinand
16. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Treaty of Versailles
Patricians
Girondins
Apostle Paul
17. An epic poem from Mesopotamia - and among the earliest known works of literary writing.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Panama Canal
Shinto
Treaty Ports
18. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
liberalism
Balfour Declaration
Celts
Asian Tigers
19. 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.
Cold War
Minoans
Mesopotamia
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
20. The revolt against the British by many different groups across India 1857 but led particularly by some of the disgruntled Indian soldiers working for the British. It caused the British government to take over more direct control of India from the Bri
Umma
1935
Artha-sastra
Sepoy Mutiny
21. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
House of Burgesses
Fascism
Zulu
Benito Mussolini
22. 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.
Minoan
Stalingrad
Mao Zedong
Sumer
23. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
Leonid Brezhnev
Sikhs
Hydrogen bomb
Shah Abbas I
24. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
1689
Qin
Woodrow Wilson
Sufi
25. 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
Indulgence
Asian Tigers
Martin Luther
26. Date: Stock Market Crash
Mahayana Buddhism
1433 CE
Emperor Menelik
1929
27. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
1804
Jenne-jeno
1994
deforestation
28. Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki - Finland in 1975 by the Soviet Union and western European countries.
Helsinki Accords
Tamil Kingdoms
Hieroglyphics
Encomienda
29. Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930 - he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State') - a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization.
1954
Sepoy Mutiny
Epic of Gilgamesh
Getulio Vargas
30. Place that the British first colonized in Australia
Sigmund Freud
Cambyses II
Minoan
Botany Bay
31. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Serbia
Ulama
Mamluks
632 CE
32. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Stalingrad
Humanism
Samsara
Nasir al-Din Tusi
33. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Safavid Empire
Weimar Republic
Mita
Labor union
34. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Shakespeare
1954
Mestizo
Nikita Khrushchev
35. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Bhagavad-Gita
Lama
1899
Warsaw Pact
36. City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca.
World Bank
Medina
Carthage
Jesus
37. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Labor union
Muhammad
Daoism
1910
38. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
Mecca
Aqueduct
Hammurabi
cuneiform
39. Explorer of West Africa in the 15th century - making many new discoveries there about Africa.
Nasir al-Din Tusi
deforestation
Liu Bang
Prince Henry The Navigator
40. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Ming
Victorian Age
urbanization
1949
41. The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E. - these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture - wide-ranging trade - ceremonial centers - and monumental construction.
Romanization
Byzantine Empire
Olmec
Hebrew Bible
42. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
Romanization
Philip II
Colonialism
Constantine
43. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
1950
Jose Morelos
Woodrow Wilson
vassal
44. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Hoplite
Teotihuacan
African National Congress
Witch-hunt
45. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
1054 CE
Inca
Bolsheviks
Pericles
46. 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.
Diaspora
Octavian
Salvador Allende
St. Augustine
47. These strong and predictable winds have long been ridden across the open sea by sailors - and the large amounts of rainfall that they deposit on parts of India - Southeast Asia - and China allow for the cultivation of several crops a year.
Monsoon
Yongle
1991
Jacobins
48. 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.
Warring States Period
Qin
Qin
Long March
49. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Creole
476 CE
Fresco
Patricians
50. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Huguenot
Ming
Monophysites
Constantine
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