Units 1-2
The founder of Daoism was whom?
Laozi
The leader of the Ottoman Empire who conquered Constantinople
Mehmed II
Name at least two women's right leaders in the 1800s.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of which communist party in Russia before the revolution?
Bolshevik
Countries which did not choose a side in the Cold War and wanted their independence from their colonizers were known as
non aligned countries
Name the 2 main arms of the United Nations
Security Council and General Assembly
The original name of Genghis Khan?
Temujin
Name 4 religions spread along the Silk Road
Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Islam
These silver mines were really important in the Americas. Name the place and country they were located in.
Potosi, Bolivia
Buddha's real name was...
Siddartha Gautama
This Russian leader was the first to centralize power in Russia and was the grandfather of Ivan IV
Ivan the Great
Who wrote the Jamaica letter in order to get merchants to support independence in South America?
Simon Bolivar
This Mexican dictator catered to the West and let the peasants suffer (hint he ruled for 34 years)
Porfirio Diaz
2 military alliances formed during the Cold War
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Name two negative effects of the Green Revolution
Chemicals, putting small farmers out of business
The landowning class in feudal Japan were called the
daimyo
Name 3 Mongol Khanates
Yuan (China), Il Khanate (Persia), Golden Horde (Russia)
The last effective Inca emperor before his capture and execution during the Spanish conquest.
Atahualpa
Name 2 technologies of the Incas?
Carpa Nan, Quipu, Chasqui (runners), terraced farming
What happened to Russia in Units 1 & 2 which made it further behind the West (technologically)?
The Mongols invaded Russia, took their craftsmen and dispersed them throughout the Mongol Empire.
Name 2 Enlightenment thinkers whose ideas can be found in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights?
Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire
Name the Big Four who were at the Paris Peace Conference after World War 1
England, France, U.S., Italy
This conference was held after the war was done in Europe and it determined what to do with Japan to end the war in the Pacific
Potsdam Conference
This medical invention transformed women's lives in being able to control their own fertility.
Birth Control
Name two examples of Monumental architecture other than the Taj Mahal and Versailles
Qing imperial portraits, Sulimaney Mosque, Red Fort, etc.
Name 2 different types of tax collection systems and the empires they belonged to.
Mughals -Zamindar tax collection
Ottomans-tax farming
Mexica-tribute lists
Ming-collected taxes in hard currency
Name 2 successful resistance movements against imperialism in the 1800s
Ghost Dance, Tupac Amaru, Sepoy Mutiny, Xhosa Cattle Killing, Maji Maji, Anglo-Zulu war
This Hindu Kingdom had a strong navy in which they used to control trade in the area of Southeast Asia
Srivijaya Empire
Calvinism, Anglicanism
The first country in Latin America to win independence was?
Haiti
Mussolini and Hitler's nicknames
Il Duce and the Furer
Name 2 nations in Asia and 2 nations in Eastern Europe that became Communist after World War 2:
China, Vietnam, North Korea, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Name one disease associated with poverty and one disease associated with increased longevity.
Poverty - malaria, t.b., cholera
Longevity- Heart disease, Alzheimer's disease
Which explorer made it just to the tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Diaz
Name 2 examples of syncretic religions
Sikhism, Vodun, Neo-Confucianism
The ancient name of the Ethiopia was __
Axum
Who was the founder of the Mughal Empire?
Babur
This failed uprising against the Qing Dynasty weakened it during the 1850s and 1860s?
The Taiping Rebellion
When a person decides to protest an unjust law without violence, this is known as
Civil Disobedience
This was the first American to go to space?
Alan Shephard
This was mass-produced and extensively used during World War II, serving as a critical medical breakthrough that saved thousands of Allied lives.
Penicillin
The philosophy that represented the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people was known as
utilitarianism
Who is considered the "Father" of the Green Revolution?
Norman Borlaug
Mongol Conquests begin in this year
1211
The Sack of Constantinople happens in this year.
1453
The Berlin Conference happens in this year.
1884
The partition of India happens in this year.
1947
The Cuban Missile Crisis Happens in this year
1962
The Rwandan Genocide Happens in this year.
1994
When a group of people are scattered throughout a region or area this is known as
A diaspora
Name 2 different terms we learned throughout the year from different regions that meant that rulers were given the right to rule because of God or some spiritual presence.