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1. Date: Norman Conquest of England(Hint: __66 CE)
Indian Civil Service
1066 CE
Persepolis
Bhagavad-Gita
2. During the Cold War - local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed - trained - and financed the combatants.
Ottomans
Proxy wars
Reconquista
Nazism
3. Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
1956
Cultural Revolution
Jacobins
Diocletian
4. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
Silk Road
Opium Wars
Ghana
Republic
5. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
African National Congress
Democracy
Scholasticism
Zionism
6. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Economic sanctions
Romanization
Pericles
Twelve Tables
7. Wife of Juan Peron and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
1914-1918
Franz Ferdinand
Three-field system
Eva Peron
8. Beginning in the eleventh century - military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated - and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms.
Mentuhotep I
Habsburg
Italian Renaissance
Reconquista
9. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Long March
Mercantilism
Fransisco Pizarro
Zulu
10. Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his murder
Berlin Blockade
Daoism
Philip II
Hellenistic
11. Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
Jizya
Collectivization
Monsoon
1949
12. 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
Iroquois Confederacy
1979
Semitic
13. In China - a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime.
Stone Age
Legalism
Wheel of Life
Warring States Period
14. A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery.
5th century BCE
Henry the Navigator
Steam engine
Benito Mussolini
15. Date: Founding of Jamestown (Hint: 1__7)
Crystal Palace
Napoleon Bonaparte
Railroads
1607
16. Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah - it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. Demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.
All-India Muslim League
Chinampas
Ming
Gothic Cathedrals
17. Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities
Delian League
Inca
Black Death
1347 CE
18. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)
Khmer Empire
Pericles
Bartolomeu Dias
Atahualpa
19. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Cecil Rhodes
Babylon
Silk Road
Jesus
20. 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
Shah Abbas I
Hittites
1967
21. A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia - Archaic and Classical Greece - Phoenicia - and early Italy.
Mandate of Heaven
Siddhartha Gautama
Hebrew Bible
City state
22. Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa (Hint: 1__9)
Ulama
Chavin
Vladimir Lenin
1899
23. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Pilgrims
Gold Coast
Isfahan
Aryans
24. 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.
Fresco
Paterfamilias
Delhi Sultanate
1853
25. 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.
Kepler
Tenochtitlan
Emilano Zapata
Conquistadors
26. 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.
Indentured servitude
Simon Bolivar
Nuclear nonproliferation
St. Augustine
27. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Gothic Cathedrals
Scholasticism
Oracle Bones
Tributary system
28. Date: Mongols sack Baghdad(Hint: __58 CE)
Khmer Empire
1258 CE
King Leopold II King of Belgium
1917
29. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
Telegraph
deforestation
Gentry
1804
30. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Mercantilism
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Fidel Castro
Submarine telegraph cables
31. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik
Durbar
Shakespeare
32. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Caravel
Holy Roman Empire
Diaspora
1600
33. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
Xia
Estates General
Faisal
Tamil Kingdoms
34. All non-land-owning - free men in Ancient Rome
Plebeians
Juan Peron
1857
Minoan
35. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
1861
John F. Kennedy
New Economic Policy
OPEC
36. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799).
Pilgrims
George Washington
Mao Zedong
Sokoto Caliphate
37. International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy - Japan - and Germany in the 1930s.
League of Nations
Vishnu
Gentry
Economic sanctions
38. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
pictograms
Caste system
Enlightenment
1899
39. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Porfirio Díaz
Assimilation
Juan Peron
Solidarity
40. Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889-1911). He enlarged Ethiopia to its present dimensions and defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa (1896).
Hieroglyphics
Emperor Menelik
Indentured servitude
Max Planck
41. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428)
Bartolomeu Dias
Deism
Alexandria
Hegemony
42. An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Emphasis on ethics. They considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment - and that a wise person would repress emotions - especially negative ones an
Shi Huangdi
Ibn Battuta
Stoicism
Mikhail Gorbachev
43. 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.
Malay
Mongols
Atahualpa
1071 CE
44. Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training - he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on - he negotiated with the British/INC for Muslim Political Rights
220 CE
Sanskrit
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Tang Empire
45. A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Movable type
Proxy war
King Leopold II King of Belgium
Constantine
46. 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.
1618
632 CE
Dirty War
Teotihuacan
47. Chinese nationalist revolutionary - founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.
National Assembly
Great Zimbabwe
1325 CE
Sun Yat-Sen
48. British entrepreneur and politician involved in the expansion of the British Empire from South Africa into Central Africa. The colonies of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) were named after him. (p. 736)
Hittites
Rama
Mein Kampf
Cecil Rhodes
49. The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths.
Khubilai Khan
323 BCE
1861
Moksha
50. 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
1857
Albert Einstein
Hegemony
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