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1. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Carthage
Zheng He
1683
Constantine
2. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Three-field system
1917
Realpolitik
Rajputs
3. South American civilization famous for its massive aerial-viewable formations
Silk Road
Victorian Age
Teotihuacan
Nazca
4. Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa (Hint: 1__0)
Babylon
Fascism
1600
32 CE
5. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Fourteen Points
Mongols
Babylon
Qin
6. 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.
Five Year Plans
Roman Principate
Shi Huangdi
Acropolis
7. The central text of Daoism.
1571
Proxy wars
Lusitania
Tao-te Ching
8. 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.
Guild
Realpolitik
Ramesses II
Safavid Persia
9. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Sudetenland
Postmodernism
Umayyad Caliphate
Octavian
10. 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.
Champa Rice
Tito
Quran
Fresco
11. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
James Watt
Papyrus
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ottomans
12. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church - of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258 - 445)
Victorian Age
Treaty of Versailles
Papacy
Socrates
13. Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches - tall vaults and spires - flying buttresses - and large stained-glass windows.
Gothic Cathedrals
Mahayana Buddhism
Moksha
Persian Wars
14. The belief that there is a God - but after the creation of the world became indifferent to it
Lama
Deism
Zulu
Charlemagne
15. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Confucianism
Twelve Tables
Diaspora
Mantra
16. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
Saddam Hussein
Teotihuacan
Girondins
1839
17. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Mein Kampf
Ming
Empress Dowager Cixi
City state
18. Date: End of Pax Romana(Hint: _80 CE)
Jamestown
180 CE
Adolf Hitler
Leonardo da Vinci
19. 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.
Electricity
Wheel of Life
Collectivization
Humanism
20. The last of pre-Islamic Persian Empire - from 224 to 651 CE. One of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire for a period of more than 400 years
1756
Sasanid Empire
Submarine telegraph cables
1911
21. Leader of the Soviet Union directly after the Russian Revolution.
Humanists
Asante
Joseph Stalin
Delhi Sultanate
22. Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424) - the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City - a huge encyclopedia project - the expeditions of Zheng He - and the reopening of China's borders to trade and trav
Indulgence
Hydrogen bomb
Sikhs
Yongle
23. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Bolshevik
Mongol Empire
Nirvana
Bolsheviks
24. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Constantine
Sepoy Mutiny
Buddha
Silk Road
25. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
Hegemony
Xia
League of Nations
Royal African Company
26. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Safavid Persia
Separate Spheres
Enconmienda
Mongols
27. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Roman Senate
Agricultural Revolution
Macartney Mission
28. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
Medina
Dalai Lama
Bread and Circuses
Botany Bay
29. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional Convention
Carthage
Mandate of Heaven
Nirvana
30. President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.
Diaspora
Samsara
1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. Under the Islamic system of military slavery - Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state - ruling Egypt and Syria (125
Nubians
1863
Mamluks
Patricians
32. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
1949
Scientific Revolution
Swahili
Humanism
33. Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
Cultural imperialism
Henry the Navigator
Great Zimbabwe
Qin
34. 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.
Mali
Steel
Treaty of Versailles
Getulio Vargas
35. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
Xia
Sufi
Twelve Tables
Hydrogen bomb
36. The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small
Mass production
Babylon
Puritans
Woodrow Wilson
37. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Shinto
Hadith
1861
Roman Republic
38. Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad - and his quotations
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Islam
Driver
Hadith
39. A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh. The Temple priesthood conducted sacrifices - received a tithe or percentage of agricultural revenues.
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40. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
Pancho Villa
1857
Treaty of Nanking
Ottomans
41. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.
George Washington
Fransisco Pizarro
Mita
Holy Roman Empire
42. 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.
1095 CE
1325 CE
Rigveda
cuneiform
43. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Samsara
Leonardo da Vinci
1979
Faisal
44. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
assimilation
Mohandas Gandhi
Constantinople
Solidarity
45. Soviet leader who denounced Stalin
Royal African Company
Nikita Khrushchev
Solon
Persian Wars
46. Foreign residents in a country living under the laws of their native country - disregarding the laws of the host country. 19th/Early 20th Centuries: European and US nationals in certain areas of Chinese and Ottoman cities were granted this right.
Ethiopia
Extraterritoriality
1959
Fidel Castro
47. The traditional group of representatives from the three Estates of French society: the clergy - nobility - and commoners. Louis XVI assembled this group to deal with the financial crisis in France at the time - but the 3rd estate demanded more rights
Estates General
Isfahan
Assimilation
Adolf Hitler
48. The English monarch who was beheaded by Puritans (see English Civil War) who then established their own short-lived government ruled by Oliver Cromwell (Mid 1600s).
King Charles I
Salvador Allende
Zulu
Diaspora
49. 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.
Western Front
Iron curtain
Tiananmen Square
Joint-stock company
50. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Zhou dynasty
Aristotle
Great Zimbabwe
Mahabharata
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