Early History and Religions
Classical and Post-Classical
Connections
Turning Points
20th Century Relations
100
These are massive structures built in ancient Mesopotamia
What are Ziggurats?
100
These mobile camel and goat herders ruled the Arabian Peninsula before Islam.
What are Bedouin?
100
This 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
Who is Zheng He?
100
This form of Protestantism was set up in England after 1534 by Henry VIII.
What is the Anglican church?
100
This form of German lightning warfare was characterized by high mobility and concentrated forces.
What is Blitzkrieg?
200
Zoroastrianism dominated this region/empire for many centuries.
What is Persia?
200
These Turkish-Slav military slaves during the Abbasid Caliphate eventually founded a state in Egypt.
What are Mamluks?
200
This describes the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world in the era 1450-1750.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
This scientist published Copernicus' findings in the 17th century, added his own discoveries concerning laws of gravity and planetary motion and was condemned by the Catholic church for his work.
Who is Galileo?
200
This mutual defense alliance was created as a method of containing and countering the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
300
This was (eventually) the symbol of Islam.
What is the crescent moon?
300
These are the exception.
What are the Mongols?
300
In colonial Latin America, this describes Spanish-Africans who were denied basic political, economic, and social rights due to their mixed heritage.
What is a Mulatto?
300
This intellectual movement centered in France during the 18th century featured scientific advance, application of scientific methods to study of human society and the belief that rational laws could describe social behavior.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
During this conference in February 1945, Winston Churchill met with Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt to discuss the reorganization of Germany after World War II.
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
This ethnic group invaded India, and was responsible for many types of cultural diffusion throughout South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.
What are the Aryans (or Indo-Europeans)?
400
This city in the Arabian Peninsula is where the prophet Muhammad was exiled to before returning.
What is Medina?
400
This is the modern country home to the largest number of Muslims, as well as the method by which Islam reached their shores.
What is Indonesia and what is trade?
400
This economic theory stressed governments' limitation of imports from other nations and supporting internal economies.
What is mercantilism?
400
This international organization was founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation, but was greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join.
What is League of Nations?
500
This two-word phrase describes people who herd animals and move from place to place.
What is "pastoral nomad?"
500
These three goods were traded across the Sahara desert in north Africa.
What are gold, salt and slaves?
500
This traumatic event helped to move European serfs away from their traditional land and into cities.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
500
This process describes the increasing use of biotechnology and genetic engineering, as well as large-scale industrialization in agriculture starting in the mid 20th century.
What was the Green Revolution?
500
During this 1938 conference, European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.
What is the Munich Conference?
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