Unit 1
In this kind of democracy the people elect people to serve in a legislature to make laws and also elect all major government officials.
What is a representative democracy?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
This term describes the warriors sent from Spain to conquer native American civilizations in the Americas.
What are conquistadores?
Europe was affected by this period of hostility and tension between the US and the USSR.
What is the Cold War?
China had a series of these over 4,000 years; a family line of emperors.
What are dynasties?
These are the two different kinds of command economy.
What are socialism and communism?
This early Christian took journeys throughout the Roman Empire converting people and establishing Christian communities.
Who is Paul?
This term describes illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States when they were children.
What are Dreamers?
The Industrial Revolution in Europe led to advances in this which were applied to their militaries.
What is technology?
This country is the world's largest democracy, the world's 3rd largest economy, and has rapidly growing population.
What is India?
This theme of geography is focused on dependency, adaptation and modification.
What is human-environment interaction?
This is the Buddha's given name.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
This is a cost of immigration.
What is: short term wage decrease, public services strained?
He was the first to be called tsar in Russia.
Who is Ivan the Great?
These military rulers governed Japan; the title means Great General.
Who are Shoguns?
This is the amount a producer earns above what it costs him to make the product; it is an important incentive for businessmen in a market economy.
What is profit?
This has a deep impact on reincarnation, depending on whether it is good or bad.
What is karma?
This war between Britain and France in North America resulted in a British victory; however, Britain had spent a great deal of money to achieve dominance.
What is the French and Indian War?
French is part of this branch of the Indo-European language family.
What are the Romance or Italic branch?
These East Asian warriors conquered China but were unable to conquer Japan despite several attempts.
Who are the Mongols?
South Africa had this government in apartheid because the white minority ruled over the black majority.
What is an oligarchy?
This Hindu god had many avatars including Krishna.
Who is Vishnu?
The cause of this Native American civilization's end in Latin America is unknown; we only know their cities were abandoned.
Who are the Maya?
Some historians believe that vikings originating from this country conquered local Slavs and established Kievan Rus; they were called Varangians.
What is Sweden?
This Indian emperor converted to Buddhism and tried to promote peace after his brutal rise to power.
Who was Ashoka?