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Global History Basics
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1. (1929- ) President of the Palestine National Authority and Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Considered by many to be a terrorist - he has in recent years been accepted as the legitimate authority to speak for the Palestinians. His
Monroe Doctrine
chancellor
hydroelectric power
Arafat - Yasir
2. Theory of the universe that states the earth is the center - and that the sun revolves around it.
Cavour - Camillo
dharma
Greco-Roman
geocentric model
3. (1827-1912) English surgeon who discovered that germs cause post operative infections. He then insisted doctors use antiseptics - substances that kill germs - on their hands and instruments before surgery. This process greatly reduced the number of d
Lister - Joseph
Pantheon
Machiavelli - Niccolo
Ramayana
4. The removal of people of a specific ethnic group by means of genocide - terror - or forced expulsion.
Orthodox Christianity
ethnic cleansing
acupuncture
anatomy
5. (1040?-1099) The head of the Roman Catholic Church Who issued the proclamation the began the First Crusade.
Pope Urban II
Daimler - Gottlieb
Dalai Lama
Industrial Revolution
6. (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. He wrote Two Treaties on Government which explained that all men have Natural Rights - which are Life - Liberty - and Property - and that the purpose of government was to protect these rights.
Seljuk Turks
centralized government
Locke - John
natural resources
7. (2575 BCE - 2134 BCE) Period in ancient Egyptian history characterized by the building of the Great Pyramids at Giza.
Old Kingdom
bureaucracy
fascism
Mecca
8. (582?-500?BCE) Greek mathematician responsible for the Pythagorean Theorem which states the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Fleming - Alexander
Oligarchy
greenhouse gas
Pythagoras
9. A prevention treatment containing weakened microbes of the kind of disease one is guarding against. It is administered to stimulate the immune system against that disease.
Garibaldi - Guiseppe
vaccine
Arabic
Communist Manifesto - The
10. A book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that describes the new political system of scientific socialism - which becomes the basis for communism. The book states that all of human history is based on the conflict between the bourgeoisie (thos
Last Supper - The
Michelangelo
mixed economy
Communist Manifesto - The
11. (1672-1725) Czar of Russia. He was responsible for the westernization of Russia in the 18th century.
Rousseau - Jean Jacques
persecution
Peter the Great
Society of Jesus
12. Chemicals used to destroy insects and other pests.
Newcomen - Thomas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Deng Xiaoping
pesticides
13. (?-286 BCE) First king of the Maurya dynasty in India.
Ferdinand - Franz
Kublai Khan
vaccine
Maurya - Chandragupta
14. The name of a tribe of South Africa people who live in the northern part of Natal. They were the dominate tribe in the late 19th century when European Imperialism began. They resisted both the Boers and the British - but ultimately lost their homelan
evolution
Descartes - Rene
Zulu
Genghis Khan
15. A political policy in South Africa where black South Africans could only live in certain areas - were required to use separate trains - beaches - restaurants - and schools - and could not enter into an interracial marriage.
peasantry
Abbassid Dynasty
pictographs
apartheid
16. North American Free Trade Agreement - an economic treaty between Canada - the United States - and Mexico to lower tariffs and create a free trade environment. NAFTA was ratified by its member nations in 1994.
Pope
NAFTA
Put Out System
zoology
17. A social theory which states that the level a person rises to in society and wealth is determined by their genetic background.
Social Darwinism
Luther - Martin
judicial
Hussein - Saddam
18. An early trading civilization located in present day Lebanon and Syria along the Mediterranean. They produced various products - such as glass - papyrus scrolls - and dyes - and established trade across the entire Mediterranean Sea. The Phoenician tr
Dutch East Indies
Phoenicians
Taoism / Daoism
Mussolini - Benito
19. Shinto - Which means 'Way of the Gods -' is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on nature. Many consider Shinto to be a form of Animism due to the many similarities found between them. Shinto teaches that there is a sacredness of the whole
Triangle Trade
westernization
Shinto
absolute monarchy
20. A group formed in protest of the policy of Apartheid in South Africa. It was eventually outlawed due to their violent tactics - and Nelson Mandela - one of its leaders - was imprisoned for over thirty years.
Commonwealth of Independent States
African National Congress
liberty
volence
21. Pride in one's country or culture - often excessive in nature.
ethnocentric
Hobbes - Thomas
nationalism
Hellenistic
22. Formed by the Creator (Father) - Redeemer (Son) - and Sustainer (Holy Spirit). Christians believe that these three entities are all part of a single higher power.
resources
Imperialism
Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Accident
Holy Trinity
23. Lowest class in most social class systems - including factory workers - miners - and others.
legislative
working class
Calvin - John
Abraham
24. Land owning feudal lords in Japan.
Shakespeare - William
daimyo
river delta
Dias - Bartholomeu
25. (1966-1976) Political policy in started in China by Mao Zedong to eliminate his rivals and train a new generation in the revolutionary spirit that created communist China. The Cultural Revolution resulted in beatings - terror - mass jailings - and th
Treaty of Versailles
colonization
Cyrillic
Cultural Revolution
26. Lines of equal distance measured north and south of the equator.
Cardinal Richelieu
scholar
latitude
architect
27. A branch of mathematics pioneered by Islamic mathematician al-Khwarizimi in which letters are used to represent unknown numbers to generalize arithmetic.
Curie - Pierre
Rhodes - Cecil
algebra
Congress of Vienna
28. A gas such as carbon dioxide - ozone - or water vapor that are a factoring the warming of the Earth's atmosphere.
Venice and Florence
Meiji
greenhouse gas
BCE
29. The control of one country by another through the stationing of military troops and military government.
extermination
occupation (military)
Kuomintang
Einstein - Albert
30. The cooperative relationship between two or more people who are involved in the same activity.
Hippocrates
partnership
Brahman
Confucius
31. A society that has a high level of culture and social organization including organized government - job specialization - and a organized belief system.
Zulu
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
civilization
Native Americans & Slaves
32. The passing of information through a series of runners.
agriculture
Dias - Bartholomeu
Mali
relay runners
33. Farmers who were tied to the land during European feudalism. They were not slaves because they could not be bought or sold - but they could not readily leave the manor either. Serfs were given land to farm in exchange for service to their lord. This
Aztecs
Scientific Method
serfs
famine
34. Nations that are economically and technologically less developed than industrialized nations.
developing nations
Catherine the Great
navigable rivers
Chamberlain - Neville
35. (1371-1433?) Chinese naval explorer who sailed along most of the coast of Asia - Japan - and half way down the east coast of Africa before his death.
Zheng He
Zollverein
humanism
Caliph
36. (1509-1564) Theologian and church reformer who developed a form of Protestantism during the Reformation. His church is known for the idea of predestination - which states certain people are predestined for heaven.
Calvin - John
rigid social class system
African National Congress
astrolabe
37. The process of altering life forms by manipulating their genetic structure.
general will
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
diaspora
genetic engineering
38. The cooperative relationship between two or more people who are involved in the same activity.
partnership
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Put Out System
ethnic group
39. Revolutionary document of the French Revolution. Written in 1789 - it spelled out certain rights believed to be universal to all mankind. Patterned on the American Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
caravel
Social Darwinism
Sikhism
40. A truce during wartime.
Pasteur - Louis
United States Constitution
Churchill - Sir Winston
armistice
41. Rights such as owning property - or the choice to be employed.
legislative
Abbassid Dynasty
World War I
economic rights
42. Various materials found in nature used in manufacturing such as wood - coal - and oil.
natural resources
hydroelectric power
Moses
geocentric model
43. (1869-1940) Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1937 to 1940. He is responsible for the policy of appeasement with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Chamberlain - Neville
Shiva
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cabinet System
44. To gain something when someone dies - such as property or money.
Chamberlain - Neville
Bell - Alexander Graham
inherit
Slavic
45. Political revolution in the British North American Colonies starting in 1776 that removed the colonies from Great Britain's control - and established an independent nation know as the United States of America.
dam
American Revolution
armistice
Three Gorges Dam
46. (1918-1981) President of Egypt between 1970 and 1981. He was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists for making peace with Israel.
interracial marriage
al-Sadat - Anwar
Khmer Rouge
serfs
47. (1948-49) War between Israel and the Arab world over the formation of the nation of Israel.
Israeli War for Independence
Curie - Pierre
Hunting and gathering
Eratosthenes
48. To adopt western ideas and culture.
westernization
plebeian
Pol Pot
suffrage
49. An economic system controlled by strong - centralized government - which usually focuses on industrial goods. With little attention paid to agriculture and consumer goods.
Command Economy
ideographs
Reformation
antiseptic
50. Rain that contains pollutants due to the burning of fossil fuels. It is damaging to the environment.
multinational company
acid rain
Clemenceau - Georges
migration