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1. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Lama
Sun Yat-Sen
Mali
1899
2. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Qin
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Janissaries
Solidarity
3. 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.
Jesuits
Silk Road
Emperor Menelik
Ramesses II
4. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Zheng He
Leonid Brezhnev
Apostle Paul
Babylonian Empire
5. The 6 -000-mile (9 -600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists - led by Mao Zedong - were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Forbidden City
Zhou Dynasty
Long March
Steppes
6. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Black Death
Sub-Saharan Africa
1949
loess
7. 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
Trireme
Lama
Cold War
8. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Holocaust
St. Augustine
Porfirio Díaz
Neocolonialism
9. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Maori
Junk
Porfirio Díaz
Mohenjo-Daro
10. Subordinate to Alexander who took over Egypt after his death
Guild
Emilio Aguinaldo
Liu Bang
Ptolemy
11. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
Humanism
1324 CE
Prince Henry The Navigator
Cultural Revolution
12. Large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses - herding cattle - sheep - and horses as well as hunting.
Suleiman the Magnificent
World Bank
Zoroaster
Huns
13. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
Kamikaze
John Locke
Emilano Zapata
Assimilation
14. 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)
Indian National Congress
Atlantic System
Babylon
Aswan High Dam
15. Considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Jenne-jeno
Xia
1588
The Mahdi
16. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Great Circuit
Nongovernmental Organizations
1959
Revolutions of 1848
17. Greek ships built specifically for ramming enemy ships.
Hittites
Trireme
1607
Jesus
18. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
1947
Steppes
Daoism
Sigmund Freud
19. 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.
Christopher Columbus
Monotheism
Vladimir Lenin
Han
20. Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets
NATO
Nazca
Sufi
Lusitania
21. Date: Stock Market Crash
Hacienda
Gens de couleur
1929
Silk Road
22. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
McCarthyism
Separate Spheres
Treaty Ports
Twelve Tables
23. Process of changing property from private ownership to communal ownership. Usually this went along with communist efforts to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing.
Collectivization
Karma
Berlin Blockade
Crusades
24. Nazi extermination camp in Poland - the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews - Gypsies - Communists - and others were killed there. (p. 800)
Harappa
Auschwitz
Mein Kampf
4th century CE
25. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Mansa Musa
Theodosius
Hammurabi
Glorious Revolution
26. Branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Mainly found in Iran and a small part of Iraq. It is the state religion of Iran. A member of this group is called a Shi'ite.
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27. Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage(Hint: __24 CE)
Telegraph
1945
1324 CE
Printing press
28. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Terrorism
Puritans
Ulama
Concordat
29. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
1939
1954
Leonid Brezhnev
Otto von Bismarck
30. 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.
Cecil Rhodes
Empiricism
Sun Yat-Sen
Monsoon
31. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I - to be administered under League of Nations supervision. Used especially in reference to the Western European possession of the Middle East after
Hadith
95 Theses
Armenia
Mandate System
32. 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.
Proxy war
Varna
1948
Maya
33. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Holocaust
Extraterritoriality
Sandinistas
Diaspora
34. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
Pax Mongolica
The Golden Triangle
Darius I
Imperialism
35. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Janissaries
Pancho Villa
Qin
Juan Peron
36. In Daoist belief - complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine - light - and active qualities while the other with feminine - dark - and passive qualities.
Yin and yang
Indulgences
Conquistadors
Zionism
37. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
1959
Dutch West India Company
Asoka
38. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Polis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Xia
Mongols
39. 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
Zionism
Tang Revival
Trireme
Humanism
40. 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.
1071 CE
World Bank
Timur
Mechanization
41. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Sepoy
Adolf Hitler
Max Planck
1492
42. A collection of ancient stories that feature Hindu gods such as Vishnu and Shiva
Jesuits
Holocaust
Manchus
Puranas
43. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Dutch West India Company
Imperialism
ziggurat
44. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Octavian
Silk Road
Little Ice Age
1948
45. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Guilds
Hatshepsut
Tribune
Habsburg
46. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
Mycenae
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1488
Indian Ocean
47. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
ideograms
Olmec
Serbia
Hellenistic
48. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Fascist Party
Inca
476 CE
Asante
49. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
Rigveda
Balfour Declaration
Scientific Revolution
Hadith
50. The 'Roman Peace' - that is - the state of comparative concord prevailing within the boundaries of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) to that of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.)
Papacy
Jizya
Warsaw Pact
Pax Romana
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