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1. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
Mantra
Cold War
Manor
1863
2. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
Assimilation
Persia
Chinampas
1939
3. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Girondins
Black Death
1300 BCE
Declaration of the Rights of Man
4. The central text of Daoism.
Congress of Vienna
Rama
Buddhism
Tao-te Ching
5. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Wheel of Life
1954
Vedas
Tokugawa Shogunate
6. Zealous proponent of Christianity who was instrumental in its spread beyond Judaism
Kepler
Revolutions of 1848
Rajputs
Apostle Paul
7. Influential book Written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology.
Mein Kampf
Toussaint L'Ouverture
1804
1488
8. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Mulatto
Hieroglyphics
Modernization
Mughal Empire
9. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Karl Marx
Islam
New Imperialism
Scientific Revolution
10. A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world.
Code of Hammurabi
Suez Canal
Fidel Castro
Holy Roman Empire
11. The policy in international relations by which - beginning in the eighteenth century - the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful.
Balance of power
Little Ice Age
Devshirme
Shakespeare
12. The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. Remembered as prosperous era in Chinese History.
League of Nations
Zhou
Sandinista
Modernization
13. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Stock exchange
Habsburg
Mohandas Gandhi
Sokoto Caliphate
14. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Silk Road
Nazism
Mentuhotep I
Napoleonic Wars
15. Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script - particularly that of the ancient Egyptians - in which many of the symbols are conventionalized - recognizable pictures of the things represented
Hieroglyphics
Driver
Hoplite
Holocaust
16. Aggressive empire in Cambodia and Laos that collapsed in the 1400's when Thailand conquered Cambodia
Alexander the Great
Deng Xiaoping
Khmer Empire
Nation-State
17. Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna (Hint: 1_83)
Max Planck
1683
Mohenjo-Daro
Alexandria
18. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Shang Dynasty
Sudetenland
Persian Wars
Thebes
19. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Joseph Stalin
Silk Road
Plebeians
Treaty of Nanking
20. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Muhammad
Islam
Joint-stock company
21. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
Realpolitik
Harappa
Mandate of Heaven
Mecca
22. Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor - but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952.
Sikhism
Muhammad Ali
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bartolomeu Dias
23. A legendary Chinese dynasty that was not believed to exist until relatively recently. Walled towns ruled by area-specific kings assembled armies - built cities - and worked bronze. Created pictograms which would evolve in to the first Chinese script.
Muhammad Ali
Xia
Sumerians
Roman Senate
24. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Fourteen Points
1521
Saddam Hussein
Albert Einstein
25. Ultraconservative empress in Qing (Manchu) dynasty China. Ruled china in the turbulent late 19th century - not as a true Empress but as an Empress Dowager.
1502
Ramesses II
Cixi
Bread and Circuses
26. In medieval Europe - a sworn supporter of a king or lord committed to rendering specified military service to that king or lord - usually in exchange for the use of land.
Twelve Tables
vassal
1517
Delhi Sultanate
27. Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope(Hint: 1__8)
632 CE
1488
2001
Socrates
28. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece - Egypt - and Persia
Shogun
Alexander the Great
Bourgeoisie
Mikhail Gorbachev
29. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Sun Yat-sen
Colonialism
Chinampas
Indulgences
30. Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing.
Henry the Navigator
Gujarat
1853
Hinduism
31. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
John Locke
Mestizo
1863
Beijing
32. The earliest known form of writing - which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
Bengal
cuneiform
Napoleon
Tao-te Ching
33. Date: Battle of Lepanto (Hint: 1__1)
Medina
Woodrow Wilson
1571
Estates General
34. Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
Mao Zedong
1962
NATO
Perestroika
35. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
Copernicus
Max Planck
Caste system
New Economic Policy
36. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Cyrus II
Talmud
Yongle
Berlin Blockade
37. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Abbasid Caliphate
1979
Suez Canal
Cambyses II
38. 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.
Laissez Faire
Saddam Hussein
Hellenistic
Ibn Battuta
39. East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.
Ethiopia
Zhou Dynasty
1271-1295 CE
Diffusion
40. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
2001
Marie Curie
Mamluks
Vladimir Lenin
41. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
assimilation
Weimar Republic
Korean War
Crystal Palace
42. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Yongle
Neo-Assyrians
Fransisco Pizarro
Tang Empire
43. An elaborate display of political power and wealth in British India in the nineteenth century - apparently in imitation of the pageantry of the Mughal Empire.
Durbar
Josiah Wedgwood
Dalai Lama
1919
44. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Vasco da Gama
Taiping Rebellion
Champa Rice
World Bank
45. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Divination
Medina
1989
Martin Luther
46. The most significant Mesoamerican city.
Teotihuacan
Diaspora
Laissez faire
Balance of power
47. A political ideology that emphasizes rule of law - representative democracy - rights of citizens - and the protection of private property. This ideology - derived from the Enlightenment - was especially popular among the property-owning middle classe
Glorious Revolution
Ramesses II
Constantine
liberalism
48. One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity
St. Augustine
Serbia
Malay
Minoans
49. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
4th century CE
Monotheism
Suez Canal
Acropolis
50. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Winston Churchill
Consul
Monsoon
Maya
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