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1. Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward - the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
1271-1295 CE
Tang Revival
Ulama
Minoan
2. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Kepler
Christopher Columbus
The Golden Triangle
Ming
3. 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.
Tenochtitlan
Ming
1863
Hieroglyphics
4. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle - al-Abbas - they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Cortes
Siberia
King Charles I
Abbasid Caliphate
5. Large Muslim state founded in 1809 in what is now northern Nigeria.
Shakespeare
1325 CE
1600
Sokoto Caliphate
6. A Roman bribery method of coping with class difference. Entertainment and food was offered to keep plebeians quiet without actually solving unemployment problems.
1853
Bread and Circuses
Teotihuacan
Satrapy
7. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Samurai
Islam
Shi Huangdi
Gold Coast
8. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Hundred Years War
Jesuits
Tiananmen Square
Yurt
9. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Mughal Empire
Celts
Helsinki Accords
Suez Canal
10. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Nomad
Labor union
Zapata
Proxy war
11. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Peloponnesian War
Berlin Blockade
Mecca
Safavid Persia
12. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
OPEC
1939
Hadith
Mein Kampf
13. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Hegemony
Jizya
Zoroastrianism
Treaty of Versailles
14. Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires - they were based on gift giving and commercial links.
Emperor Menelik
Timur
Chiefdom
Republic
15. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
St. Augustine
Driver
Stoicism
Horse collar
16. The longest lasting Chinese dynasty - during which the use of iron was introduced.
Zhou dynasty
Muscovy
The Golden Triangle
Holocaust
17. The theory developed in early modern England and spread elsewhere that royal power should be subject to legal and legislative checks.
Constitutionalism
Copernicus
Vedas
Twelve Tables
18. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
Octavian
Creole
Janissaries
Mali
19. A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
legalism
Shogun
Tenochtitlan
Indentured servitude
20. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.
Chinampas
Nazca
Saddam Hussein
Repartimiento
21. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Great Zimbabwe
1095 CE
Constitutional Convention
1899
22. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Adolf Hitler
Napoleon
Khmer Empire
Meiji Restoration
23. One of the early proto-Greek peoples from 2600 BCE to 1500 BCE. Inhabitants of the island of Crete. Their site of Knossos is pictured above.
Minoans
Carthage
Apostle Paul
Catholic Reformation
24. Mass murder of Jews under the Nazi Regime
Holocaust
Mohandas Gandhi
Cyrus II
Ming
25. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Octavian
Proxy wars
Proxy war
Paleolithic
26. 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.
Salvador Allende
Agora
Mass production
Ibn Khaldun
27. Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna - fostered a new style of naturalistic art - and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Diffusion
Akhenaten
1950
Third World
28. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Safavid Empire
Papyrus
Stone Age
Balance of power
29. Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria - Mongolia - Turkestan - and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
Muscovy
Qing Empire
Panama Canal
Printing press
30. A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417 - when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. (p. 411)
Mahayana Buddhism
cuneiform
Chavin
Great Western Schism
31. 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
Lama
Tang Revival
Byzantine Empire
Beijing
32. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Aswan High Dam
African National Congress
Pilgrims
33. Date: Columbus 'Sailed the Ocean Blue' / Reconquista of Spain (Hint: 1__2)
1492
Sun Yat-Sen
Third World
Manumission
34. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
Nation-State
1898
Muhammad Ali
Daoism
35. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Cottage industry
Emperor Menelik
Hellenistic
Ramesses II
36. 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.
Auschwitz
Stoicism
Theravada Buddhism
Solidarity
37. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Josiah Wedgwood
Umma
Cossaks
Vladimir Lenin
38. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Armenia
Golden Horde
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Islam
39. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany - on the one hand - and France and Britain - on the other.
Western Front
Roman Principate
1899
Song Dynasty
40. Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
Nirvana
Agricultural Revolution
10000 BCE
Mechanization
41. 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.
European Community
Separate Spheres
Delhi Sulatanate
The Mahdi
42. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
1863
Hatshepsut
1899
Macartney Mission
43. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Mita
Nuremberg Trials
Treaty of Versailles
Olmec
44. A large central city in the Mesoamerican region. Located about 25 miles Northeast of present day Mexico City. Exhibited city planning and unprecedented size for its time. Reached its peak around the year 450.
Encomienda
Teotihuacan
Vasco da Gama
Reconquista
45. The elite professional class of officials who administered the government of British India. Originally composed exclusively of well-educated British men - it gradually added qualified Indians.
Humanists
Caravel
Satrapy
Indian Civil Service
46. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Kamikaze
Hatshepsut
Atahualpa
Crusades
47. City in Japan - the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb - on August 6 - 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Otto von Bismarck
Hiroshima
Theravada Buddhism
Indentured servitude
48. 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.
Roman Principate
Vasco da Gama
Olmec
1571
49. A major public works program in the United States during the Great Depression.
1919
Laissez Faire
Babylon
Civilian Conservation Corps
50. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
1954
Samsara
Fourteen Points
Sasanid Empire
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