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1. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Patricians
Leonardo da Vinci
Sub-Saharan Africa
476 CE
2. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Umma
Janissaries
Habsburgs
Pax Mongolica
3. 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.
Laissez faire
Vladimir Lenin
Hiroshima
James Watt
4. Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers - the United States - and Japan - which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories.
Safavid Empire
Empress Wu
Celts
New Imperialism
5. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
Bourgeoisie
Gentry
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
6. The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period.
Gujarat
1994
Oracle Bones
Fourteen Points
7. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
Zoroastrianism
1939
Yurt
Nehru
8. 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.
Stoicism
Crusades
Neocolonialism
Bourgeoisie
9. 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.
Mecca
Akbar
Henry the Navigator
Tributary system
10. Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is 'restructuring' - referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Indentured servitude
Gupta Empire
Perestroika
Serbia
11. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Teotihuacan
Apostle Paul
Vladimir Lenin
Fidel Castro
12. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Fourteen Points
1600
Iconoclast
Tributary system
13. 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.
Roman Republic
1935
Ferdinand Magellan
Qing Empire
14. Date: Korean War starts
1950
Winston Churchill
Collectivization
Jacobins
15. In medieval Europe - an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some of them worked as artisans and in factories; in Russia it was not abolished until 1861.
Umma
Serf
Tribute system
Caravel
16. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
1839
Guomindang
Memphis
Harappa
17. Capital of the Mugal empire in Northern India
Joseph Stalin
Delhi
Nubians
Safavid Persia
18. An imperial eunuch and Muslim - entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean - from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Gentry
32 CE
Nehru
Zheng He
19. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Ibn Battuta
Goths
1618
1956
20. 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.
Mughal Empire
Reconquista
Caliphate
Zen
21. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Zhou Dynasty
Benito Mussolini
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Zaibatsu
22. 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.
Shang
Gens de couleur
Carthage
Hittites
23. The first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.
Fidel Castro
Salvador Allende
Western Front
Joesph Stalin
24. Greek Historian - considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively - collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Herodotus
Lama
Hydrogen bomb
1954
25. Someone with interracial ancestry - especially found in Latin America
Monotheism
WTO
Mestizo
Vasco da Gama
26. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
1776
Diaspora
Roman Senate
Sandinista
27. 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
221 BCE
Mass deportation
Totalitarianism
28. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
Muhammad
Creoles
Perestroika
Hundred Years War
29. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
Polis
1839
Manor
Babylonian Empire
30. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety - fulfill vows - or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions - such as the Muslim journey to Mecca.
Mahabharata
League of Nations
Pilgrimage
Yellow River
31. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Yin and yang
220 CE
Ibn Battuta
Xia
32. 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.
Hundred Years War
Abbasid Caliphate
Darius I
Ayatollah Khomeini
33. System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. These knots are interesting because the Inca are notable for being a relatively sophisticated empire and civilization - but they had no written language (very
Bartholomew Dias
Khipu
Muslim
Gothic Cathedrals
34. Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade (Hint: 1__3)
1853
Bartholomew Dias
Imperialism
Mao Zedong
35. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Leonardo da Vinci
Zoroastrianism
House of Burgesses
Terrorism
36. 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
African National Congress
loess
Ottomans
Asante
37. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mandate of Heaven
Semitic
Benjamin Franklin
Asian Tigers
38. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Zhou
Medieval
Monasticism
Zen
39. Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time - he was ultimately assassinate
1095 CE
Scientific Revolution
Zhou
Emilano Zapata
40. Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god - and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam.
5th century BCE
Monotheism
Janissary
Congress of Vienna
41. Roman emperor (r. 312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire - he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a tolerated/favored religion.
Pax Mongolica
1571
Constantine
Aristotle
42. Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His biggest rival though was the Islamized Golden Horde. He is the great great grandfather of Babur who later founds the Mughal Empire.
Ulama
Agora
John F. Kennedy
Timur
43. Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Pax Romana
Habsburg
Zulu
Jacobins
44. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
1502
Khipu
Beijing
Postmodernism
45. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
1931
New Imperialism
Mansa Musa
Tito
46. A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.
Perestroika
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Napoleon Bonaparte
Monsoon
47. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
Sahel
National Assembly
Scholasticism
48. 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
Zulu
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Five Year Plans
Little Ice Age
49. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Repartimiento
John Locke
NATO
Wheel of Life
50. 'Restructuring' reforms by the nineteenth-century Ottoman rulers - intended to move civil law away from the control of religious elites and make the military and the bureacracy more efficient.
1956
Tanzimat
legalism
Treaty Ports
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