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1. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
1521
Janapadas
Marie Curie
Zapata
2. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad - and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
All-India Muslim League
Mecca
Huguenot
Empiricism
3. Democratic and nationalist revolutions that swept across Europe during a time after the Congress of Vienna when conservative monarchs were trying to maintain their power. The monarchy in France was overthrown. In Germany - Austria - Italy - and Hunga
Humanism
Revolutions of 1848
Habsburgs
James Watt
4. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Hanseatic League
Diaspora
1533
Sanskrit
5. The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigine
Habsburg
Reconquista
Marco Polo
6. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
OPEC
Enconmienda
Ming
Shah Abbas I
7. Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
Encomienda
Pax Romana
Mauryan Empire
Cuban Missile Crisis
8. 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.)
1600
1910
Legalism
Pax Romana
9. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Goths
Bengal
Mantra
Marie Curie
10. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
1258 CE
Umma
Aztecs
Conquistadors
11. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Ibn Battuta
Habsburg
Yuan Empire
12. 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.
Horse collar
House of Burgesses
1994
Zimmerman telegram
13. A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
Sikhs
Tribune
Suez Canal
Monotheism
14. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Ramesses II
Assimilation
Celts
Plebeians
15. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
527 CE
Zoroastrianism
Acropolis
3000s BCE
16. Conquered territory in Media and later Perisa - ruled through client kings and governors rather than by direct rule.
Balfour Declaration
Janissaries
Satrapy
Swahili
17. Fine yellowish light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China. Because of the tiny needle-like shape of its particles - it can be easily shaped and used for underground structures
Armenia
loess
Emperor Menelik
Nation-State
18. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Babylonian Empire
Cyrus II
Akbar
Monophysites
19. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Realpolitik
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Grand Canal
20. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Teotihuacan
Druids
Zionism
1945
21. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
1258 CE
Nomad
Gold Coast
Mandate System
22. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Hundred Years War
Atlantic System
Afrikaners
Ghana
23. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Three-field system
Iron curtain
Yin and yang
Emperor Menelik
24. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Bartolome de Las Casas
1949
Telegraph
Monasticism
25. Succeeded the Shang dynasty. Similar to the Shang And Xia dynastic periods in that China was fragmented politically. Yet - despite the lack of true centralization - this was one of the longest Chinese dynasties - lasting about 600 years. It left subs
Zhou Dynasty
Tiananmen Square
1776
Socialists
26. The first permanent English settlement in North America - found in East Virginia
Jamestown
Guomindang
Tamil Kingdoms
1600
27. An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress - it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.
African National Congress
Colonization
Charles de Gaulle
1914-1918
28. Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq (Hint: 1__1)
Horse collar
Dharma
1991
Cossaks
29. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Asian Tigers
Colombian Exchange
Khipu
Gunpowder
30. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Khmer Empire
Mongol Empire
Henry the Navigator
Yellow Turban
31. The smallest units of the Roman army - each composed of some 100 foot soldiers and commanded by a centurion. A legion was made up of 60 of these. They also formed political divisions of Roman citizens.
Hydrogen bomb
Hundred Years War
Centuries
1929
32. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Bartholomew Dias
Shamanism
476 CE
1571
33. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
loess
hadith
32 CE
Hoplite
34. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
Democracy
Bread and Circuses
Empiricism
35. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - but its function is unknown.
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Ziggurat
Sigmund Freud
Capitalism
36. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Persia
Divine Right of Kings
Ethiopia
Tang Empire
37. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Fertile Crescent
Fransisco Pizarro
Bolsheviks
Oracle Bones
38. 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.
loess
Diaspora
Zoroastrianism
Sufi
39. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Constantinople
Nehru
Constitutional Convention
Martin Luther
40. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Song Dynasty
Gunpowder
1071 CE
Fidel Castro
41. Date: French Revolution begins
Labor union
1789
Theodosius
Vishnu
42. Arab historian. He developed an influential theory on the rise and fall of states. Born in Tunis - he spent his later years in Cairo as a teacher and judge. In 1400 he was sent to Damascus to negotiate the surrender of the city.
Carthage
Leonid Brezhnev
Oracle Bones
Ibn Khaldun
43. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Grand Canal
Joint-stock company
Quran
Mestizo
44. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)
Totalitarianism
Pearl Harbor
Cortes
1502
45. The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities. Among the first processes to be mechanized were the spinning of cotton thread and the weaving of cloth in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England. (p. 603)
Constitutional Convention
Mechanization
Hanseatic League
hadith
46. A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. He is the basis of the world's largest religion.
Mandate System
Jesus
Sub-Saharan Africa
Empress Wu
47. African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy - trading gold - slaves - and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.
Panama Canal
Adolf Hitler
Asante
Byzantine Empire
48. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
1991
1533
Beijing
Zimmerman telegram
49. 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
Indian Civil Service
Victorian Age
Weimar Republic
Constantine
50. Treaty with harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.
Capitalism
ziggurat
Prince Henry The Navigator
Treaty of Versailles
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