This honorific title, applied to Mohandas K. Gandhi, means "Great Soul."
What is Mahatma?
100
Following the Great War, African economies became widely integrated into the global market and dominated by this type of economic activity.
What is raw material export?
or What is cash crop production?
100
This term means the political and economic influence of a powerful country over another, often a former dependency, but absent direct political control.
What is neocolonialism?
100
The natural rate of the number of male human births for every 100 human female births.
What is 105?
100
According to this famous ancient author, the ancient society of Lydia survived decades of famine by playing a dice game every other day.
Who is Herodotus?
200
This Indian nationalist leader became the first prime minister of Pakistan following the Partition in 1947.
Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
200
Following the Great War, European colonial powers used this policy tool to force Africans into the wage labor market.
What is taxation?
200
This famous muralist created many images with political and revolutionary themes that opposed US influence in Latin America; he was also Frida's common-law husband.
What is Diego Rivera?
200
This country is currently in revolt again the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
What is Syria?
200
An emotion expressing pride and joy at one's accomplishment--the feeling of triumph after adversity.
What is "fiero"?
300
This liberal Chinese nationalist, whose basic political beliefs are outlined The Three Principles of the People, became the leader of the Republic of China in 1912.
Who is Sun Yatsen?
300
Jomo Kenyatta, a "new elite" nationalist, became the fist prime minister and president of this country.
What is Kenya?
300
This country's leftist revolution, ending in 1920, inspired nations throughout Latin America for its bold resistance to US political and economic pressure.
What is Mexico?
300
This country successfully addressed its problem of gender selected births with a public education campaign that included such slogans as "One daughter raised well is worth 10 sons."
What is South Korea?
300
The original computer puzzle game that requires the player to stack falling pieces of the puzzle based on their shapes and the game increases levels of difficulty so the player never actually wins or finishes the game.
What is Tetris?
400
This long retreat in difficult conditions saved the Chinese Communist Party's army from annihilation by the Nationalists.
What is the Long March?
400
This Jaamaican led the "back to Africa" movement
Who is Marcus Garvey?
400
This Brazilian samba dancer, and former hatmaker, perhaps best known in the United States as the Chiquita Banana lady.
Who is Carmen Miranda?
400
The Arabic term for the "uprisings" in the late 1980s and early 2000s by Palestinians in Israeli occupied territories.
What is the Intifada?
400
The opposite of play is not work--it's ___________ .
What is depression?
500
Chiang Kai Shek is the nom de guerre of the famous Chinese Nationalist leader; this is his birth name.
What is Jiang Jieshi?
500
This class of people, educated by the European colonial powers, became the leaders of African nationalist movements.
What is the "New Elite"?
500
This socialist party overthrew the authoritarian regime of Anastasio Somoza in Nicauragua in 1979 takes it name from a 1930s guerilla fighter who resisted the occupation of Nicaraugua by US marines.
Who are the Sandinistas?
500
The Academy-award winning documentary by former Vice President Al Gore about human caused climate change.
What is "An Inconvenient Truth"?
500
Coined in 1975 by American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi this term describes the phenomenon of "satisfying, exhilarating feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning."