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1. German leader of the Nazi Party
Pancho Villa
cuneiform
ideograms
Adolf Hitler
2. 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.
Stalingrad
Mestizo
Italian Renaissance
Mercantilism
3. A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain - one grows legumes - and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe.
Sepoy
Three-field system
Chinampas
pictograms
4. 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
Sepoy Mutiny
Babylon
632 CE
Persia
5. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Persepolis
French Revolution
Plato
Alexander the Great
6. Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.
Zoroastrianism
Marie Curie
Nonaligned
Gold Coast
7. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Zhou Dynasty
3000s BCE
Socrates
Mongol Empire
8. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
ethnic cleansing
Leonid Brezhnev
Rigveda
Hellenistic
9. A form of government - usually hereditary monarchy - in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
Maximillien Robespierre
Balance of power
1533
Absolutism
10. An ancient religion of India with a small following today of only about 10 million followers. Originated in the 800s BCE. They prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice rely mainly on self-effort to prog
Asoka
Jainism
Three-field system
cuneiform
11. The Russian feudal duchy that emerged as a local power gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite princes convinced their Mongol Tatar overlords to let them collect all the tribute gold from the other Russian princes on behalf of th
Muscovy
1300 BCE
James Watt
Pilgrimage
12. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1347 CE
1959
Laissez faire
Mughal Empire
13. A major Hindu god called The Preserver.
Josiah Wedgwood
Vishnu
Moksha
All-India Muslim League
14. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Guild
1271-1295 CE
Muhammad
Tokugawa Shogunate
15. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Mercantilism
Theravada Buddhism
1945
Shi'a
16. Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi - who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.
Ma'at
Laissez Faire
Safavid Empire
Divine Right of Kings
17. In colonial Spanish America - term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas - the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples.
Five Year Plans
Hundred Years War
1453 CE
Creoles
18. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
Persepolis
Mass production
Syncretism
Safavid Persia
19. Indian prince who renounced his worldly possessions and founded Buddhism; Buddha
Triumvirate
1947
Siddhartha Gautama
Olmec
20. 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.
Stalingrad
1054 CE
Ziggurat
Monsoon
21. Pupil of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great; argued for small units of government like the city-state
Marie Curie
Islam
Aristotle
Columbian Exchange
22. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
Jesus
Jainism
Absolutism
23. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical ultra-nationalist government. Favors nationalizing economic elites rather than promoting egalitarian socialist collectivization.
Fascism
1488
Cotton
1095 CE
24. Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899 - but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901.
Vladimir Lenin
Theravada Buddhism
Emilio Aguinaldo
1989
25. Roman emperor who adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire and who founded Constantinople as a second capital
Vladimir Lenin
Constantine
Armenia
Guomindang
26. Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British (Hint: 1__8)
Mesopotamia
1588
Akhenaten
Octavian
27. 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.
Treaty of Versailles
Muhammad Ali
Chiefdom
Lama
28. 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.
Quran
Tenochtitlan
Buddha
1325 CE
29. Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It spit the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations - including the Lutheran - Calvinist - and Anglican Churches
Mita
Balance of Power
Protestant Reformation
Napoleonic Wars
30. The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire in 1793.
Jainism
Sandinistas
Macartney Mission
1488
31. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Twelve Tables
Stalingrad
Emperor Menelik
Movable type
32. Term applied to a group of 'developing' or 'underdeveloped' countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.
Janapadas
Third World
Empiricism
Colombian Exchange
33. Elected assembly in colonial Virginia - created in 1618.
Treaty Ports
Tokugawa Shogunate
Nehru
House of Burgesses
34. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Neo-Assyrians
Tamil Kingdoms
Neo-Assyrian Empire
1054 CE
35. 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
Montezuma II
Crystal Palace
Great Zimbabwe
36. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
Philip II
Champa Rice
1488
1871
37. 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.
Bantu
Ottomans
Dharma
Asante
38. Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Between 550 and 530 B.C.E. he conquered Media - Lydia - and Babylon. Revered in the traditions of both Iran and the subject peoples.
Humanists
Thebes
Cyrus
1347 CE
39. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Totalitarianism
Caravel
Mandate of Heaven
Indulgence
40. International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations.
Fourteen Points
United Nations
Catholic Reformation
Mahabharata
41. The treaty imposed on Germany by France - Great Britain - the United States - and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans.
Treaty of Versailles
632 CE
Salvador Allende
Kievan Russia
42. Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war
1804
Mentuhotep I
Shi'a
Tito
43. 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
Neo-Assyrians
Mandate of Heaven
The Golden Triangle
Akbar
44. Chinese dynasty that followed the overthrow of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China. Among other things - the emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. It was mostly a time of vibrant economic productivity
Philip II
Ming
1095 CE
Timur
45. Date: Origin of Buddhism - Confucianism - Taoism(Hint ___ century BCE)
Czar
Centuries
Totalitarianism
6th century BCE
46. Release from suffering into a blissful nothingness
Nirvana
Hieroglyphics
National Assembly
Moksha
47. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
Yin and yang
Scramble for Africa
Olmec
Cultural imperialism
48. 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.
Centuries
Lama
Jesus
Shakespeare
49. Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic - reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
Christopher Columbus
Cortes
Conquistadors
Mandate of Heaven
50. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation.
Zoroastrianism
Crusades
Janissary
Helsinki Accords
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