Units 1-2
The founder of Daoism was whom?
Laozi
The leader of the Ottoman Empire who conquered Constantinople
Mehmed II
Where was the first women's rights convention held?
Seneca Falls, New York
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of which communist part y 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
Which Russian czar moved the boyars to Moscow to keep the princes from rising up against him?
Ivan IV the terrible
Who was known as the "Liberator" of 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 Pack
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
3 technologies of the Aztecs?
Chinampas, pyramids, aqueducts
Which Russian czar wanted to Westernize Russia?
Peter the Great
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 4 nations that became Communist after World War 2:
China, Vietnam, Cuba, 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
Some say this is the first Christian nation (located in Africa)
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
In 2015, 195 nations signed this in order to refocus their efforts to combat climate change
The Paris Agreement
The philosophy that represented the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people was known as
utilitarianim
Who is considered the "Father" of the Green Revolution?
Norman Borlaug