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1. A book circulated throughout China during the reign of Mao Zedong - which contained his political philosophy for China. It was required reading in all schools.
Little Red Book
Age of Exploration
CE
dam
2. (1810-61) Prime Minister of Sardinia - a large Italian State. He formed alliances with other foreign powers to help end Austria's and Spain's control. Instrumental in the unification of Italy.
Cavour - Camillo
Feudalism
Peter the Great
Orthodox Christianity
3. (circa 300 BCE) - Greek mathematician. Considered to be the father of modern geomertry.
Muezzin
political rights
Euclid
Stalin - Josef
4. A social philosophy which stresses the importance of the individual above society.
Prince - The
Venice and Florence
individualism
sacred
5. The complete destruction of a group of people.
extermination
astronomer
Yeltsin - Boris
culture system
6. Militaristic group of students in China who brutalized anyone who criticized Mao's government.
Triple Entente
absolute monarchy
Red Guard
property
7. The Islamic book of laws which regulates all aspects of life including - moral behavior - family life - business dealings - and government.
sacraments
heliocentric model
Sharia
Daimler - Gottlieb
8. Hindu epic story about the hero Rama Who was the incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Ramayana
Estates
Oligarchy
voting
9. A government owned farms where peasants work on a quota system.
Lister - Joseph
commune
Nagasaki
Bol
10. Relating to a system that makes laws.
Michelangelo
excommunicate
legislative
socialism
11. To travel around something - like an island or the world.
ghetto
liberty
circumnavigate
Pope
12. A religious journey to visit a shrine or other holy site.
Pilgrimage
seed drill
manorialism
Ptolemy
13. A system in government described by Baron de Montesquieu where legislative - judicial - and executive power is shared among the different branches to provide protection against abuses of power.
Columbus - Christopher
League of Nations
check and balance
Prussia
14. Chinese method of treating disorders by inserting needles into the skin. This is to help with the flow of energy that is thought to be blocked.
Herzl - Theodor
natural rights
acupuncture
World War I
15. Alliance of Germany - Italy - and Japan during World War II.
liberty
dynasty
stalemate
Axis Powers
16. Mythical water route from the northeast region of North America to the Pacific Ocean. Many people during the Age of Exploration searched for this route that does not exist. However - the search resulted in the discovery of much of the northeast regio
vaccine
Magellan - Ferdinand
Northwest Passage
Pilgrimage
17. A social - political - and economic system that dominated all aspects of medieval European life.
Model Parliament
Triangle Trade
Feudalism
Magna Carta
18. Economic and Political designation given to developing nations in Asia - Africa - and South America - many of which were former colonies during European Imperialism. These post colonial nations face low literacy rates - massive unemployment - little
Caste System
Internet
inflation
Global South
19. The policy of maintaining colonies as a source of raw materials and new markets. Practiced during old and new imperialism.
Mandate
Bessemer - Sir Henry
Aswan High Dam
colonialism
20. A government which controls all aspects of society from a central location or through a central system.
botany
centralized government
Perestroika
Curie - Marie
21. A document detailing the fundamental laws of a country or organization.
constitution
White Man's Burden - The
Edict of Milan
humanism
22. Dutch descended colonist living in South Africa. Also called Afrikaners.
Berlin Conference
Boers
adaptation
deforestation
23. (1852-1912) Emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912. He was responsible for the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the rapid modernization and industrialization of Japan.
Meiji
bourgeoisie
reverence
Austro-Hungarian Empire
24. A company that sells shares to investors who share in the profits and losses.
Kenyatta - Jomo
Irish Potato Famine
absolute monarchy
joint stock company
25. A long-established custom or belief.
censorship
tradition
Roosevelt Corollary
Phoenicians
26. A monarch who retains absolute control of their country while also enacting reform based on Enlightenment ideas.
enlightened despots
colonialism
Zollverein
habitation
27. Confucian philosophy about social order where everyone has a place and respect is paid to elders - parents - and the government. The relationships are - ruler to ruled - father to son - older brother to younger brother - husband to wife - friend to f
Five Relationships
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Canon on Medicine
de San Mart
28. The death of all members of a species.
enlightened despots
extinction
zoology
parliament
29. Treating a person - or a group of people unfairly or cruelly due to ethnic background - gender - or other difference.
Pantheon
Wright - Orville
Five Relationships
persecution
30. Theory of Thomas Hobbes that states the people form a social contract with government where they give up all rights for protection from other citizens.
trench warfare
Pythagoras
famine
social contract
31. Services including the collection and disposal of sewage and garbage.
matriarchal
sanitation
dynasty
mercantilism
32. (371?-289 BCE) - Chinese philosopher - who studied Confucianism. He later refined many of the ideas and spread them across China. Also known as Mengzi - or Meng-tzu.
Mao Zedong
Lloyd George - David
Mencius
Aswan High Dam
33. Time period during the 15th and 16th centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for easier trade routes to China and India. Resulted in the discovery of North and South America by the Europeans.
Pol Pot
Age of Exploration
Ataturk - Mustafa Kemal
natural rights
34. A political policy in which countries attempt to preserve peace by keeping an equal military and economic status.
American Revolution
Hiroshima
balance of power
Ayatollah Khomeini
35. (1834-1900) German inventor. He is best know for his work in the development of the gasoline internal combustion engine.
Daimler - Gottlieb
World War I
Great Depression
trade fair
36. The curving distance east or west of the prime meridian that stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Boers
longitude
Deng Xiaoping
Pacific Rim
37. A drainage ditch used to help control flooding.
emperor
Hebrew
stockholder
dyke
38. The cultural mixing of both ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
Greco-Roman
ghetto
Panama Canal
Bolshevik
39. A group of people within a society who share the same social - political - and economic status.
social class
Triple Entente
Columbian Exchange
Princip - Gavrilo
40. Theory of Thomas Hobbes that states the people form a social contract with government where they give up all rights for protection from other citizens.
social contract
smallpox
ethnic group
Glasnost
41. (1215-1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China.
Meiji
Einstein - Albert
Kublai Khan
British East India Company
42. Letters of forgiveness for one's sins provided by the medieval Church - and one of the causes of the Reformation.
Holy Trinity
indulgence
economic rights
inflation
43. The extinct language of ancient India. Spoken between fourteenth and fifth centuries BCE. Still used today in classic literature.
Sanskrit
hijacking
Middle Kingdom (China)
Monroe Doctrine
44. In Islam - the leader of prayers and religious scholar.
market economy
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Imam
Phoenicians
45. The territories ruled by ancient Rome which at one time encompassed most of the Mediterranean world and parts of France - England - and Germany. The empire lasted from 27 BCE to 395 CE.
individualism
Roman Empire
Feudalism
manorialism
46. French philosopher Jean Jaques Rousseau's book in which he wrote that people were basically good - and that society - and its unequal distribution of wealth - were the cause of most problems. Rousseau believed that government should be run according
aqueducts
stockholder
Social Contract - The
Osama bin Laden
47. A form of fine handwriting.
calligraphy
Yeltsin - Boris
filial piety
Yin and Yang
48. A global network of computers that communicate through phone and satellites. The Internet has services such as the World Wide Web and e-mail.
Internet
stockholder
relay runners
Prussia
49. A system of writing which uses pictures for concepts and ideas.
hieroglyphics
Creoles
separation of powers
algebra
50. (570-490 BCE?) Chinese philosopher credited with originating Taoism/Daoism. His teachings were collected and published as the Tao-te Ching.
Triple Entente
Rhodes - Cecil
Bolshevik
Lao Tze
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