Cold War
1. Soviet response to NATO: Warsaw Pact
2. The Soviet Union’s Vietnam: Afghanistan
3. Attempting to place Soviet missiles in Cuba led to this event: Cuban Missile Crisis
4. Using others to fight: proxy wars
5. Came crashing down in 1989: Berlin Wall
Aftermath of WWII
1. Partition plans were implemented in these two regions: S. Asia and Palestine
2. The US and Soviet Union emerged as these types of powers: Superpowers
3. The blockading of Berlin by the Soviet Union led to this allied response: Berlin Airlift
4. The US plan to give loans to rebuild Europe after WWII: Marshall Plan
5. Shortly after the war this leader took over China: Mao Zedong
Political plans:
1. FDRs plan during the Great Depression: New Deal
2. Stalin’s plan to rapidly industrialize: 5 year plan
3. Gorbechav’s plan to open the Soviet market: Perestroika
4. South Africa’s government sanctioned segregation: Apartheid
5. Plan in the People’s Republic of China to catch up to the rest of the world (instead it will lead to widespread famine): Great Leap Forward
Traveling
1. Traveled from Morocco through Dar al Islam to China: Ibn Battuta
2. Journeyed on the Great Trek to escape British rule: Boers
3. Admiral who traveled into the Indian Ocean aboard a huge junk: Zheng He
4. Traveled from Elba to France in 1815 to fight for another 100 days: Napoleon
5. Traveled to East Asia to defeat the Song and start the Yuan Dynasty: Kublai Khan
Conquerors
1. Defeated the Mongols (Tatars) in 1462 and established the Muscovite dynasty: Ivan III
2. Created the largest contiguous land empire in the 13th century: Genghis
3. The protestant queen who will defeat the Spanish armada in 1588: Elizabeth
4. Founded the Safavid empire with his red cap army: Ismail
5. Defeated the Aztecs with help from local populations, gunpowder and small pox: Cortes
6. Called himself the “First Emperor of China”: Shi Huangdi
7. Conquered the Middle East (with the exception of the Ottomans who had help from the Venetians) and defeated the Delhi Sultanate, which laid the groundwork for the Mughals: Tamerlane
Big, Fat Losers
1. Defeated by the British in the 7 Years War, and basically kicked out of the New World: French
2. Germanic invasions from the East was the main reason for the downfall of this Classical Empire: Rome
3. Attempted to invade Japan twice, but with the help of Kamikaze, were defeated both times: Yuan or Mongols or Kublai
4. Although he sacked Athens (had it burned to the ground and then rebuilt) he will eventually leave Greece without victory: Xerxes
Empires
1. Empire in which one would find patricians and plebeians: Rome
2. Geographically isolated until they gained a sea port on the Baltic and a warm water port on the Black Sea: Russia
3. Theater State of India: Gupta
4. Gained control of the Eastern Mediterranean by 1453: Ottomans
5. Was tolerant of all religions… and apparently tolerant of plague causing bacteria: Mongols
6. Mesopotamian Empire that conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722BC: Assyrians
7. Conquered Korea and weakened the Ming Empire: Japan
8. Classical empire that emphasized Confucian social philosophy and placed educated bureaucrats at the top of their social hierarchy: Han
Facing Rejection
1. When the government of Tibet attempted to rid the kingdom of this belief system, monks rose up and overthrew the government: Buddhism
2. Driven from Mecca to Medina 622: Muhammad
3. Attempted to end Buddhism in China: Tang
4. Rejected Christian missionaries and closed trade to all but the Dutch and Chinese: Japan
5. Defeat that marked the extent of Ottoman expansion in Europe: Siege of Vienna
6. Denied by the Portuguese, English and initially by the Spanish before he was sent on his epic journey: Columbus
Civilizations: Rise and Fall
1. Key reasons for roads
a. Security and trade
2. Consolidating power in a key location
a. Centralization
3. All defeated by this barbarian horde
a. Huns
4. Religion will create division in this civilization
a. Rome
5. Han wanted to remove power from the landowners so they gave more power to this group
a. Gentry
6. First Roman emperor
a. Caesar Augustus
Civilizations II
1. Given credit with unifying China
Qin
2. Key reason Greek civilization falls
Disunity
3. According to your text, the first real empire
Assyrians
4. Eventually, they will conquer their neighbors, the Egyptions and rule eastern Africa.
Nubians
5. Seen as the greatest threat to classical civilizations
Pastoralists
6. The ruler had been chosen by the supreme deity and would retain his backing as long as he served as a wise guardian of his people
Mandate of heaven
Belief Systems
1. The path or the way
a. Dao
2. Religion of the Persian Kings
a. Zoroastrianism
3. Spread through eastern and western Europe following the Edict of Milan
a. Christianity
4. Will spread along the Silk routes into China
a. Buddhism
5. Reinforced the caste system
a. Hinduism
6. May have influenced or been influenced by dualism
a. Judaism
7. Key reason for the popularity of Buddhism
a. Escape reincarnation
8. Emphasized a structured system and focused on societal health
a. Confucianism
9. Authoritarian political philosophy instated during the Zhou dynasty
a. legalism
Terms
1. Rule by the few
Oligarchy
2. The “best people” often landholding nobles
Aristocracy
3. Lower class of citizens in Rome
Plebeians
4. When salt from the soil seeps to the surface
Salinization
5. Humans can understand and explain natural occurrences
Humanism
6. The study of disease
Epidemiology
7. The practice of smelting metal
Metallurgy
8. temple structure of the mesopotamians
ziggurat
9. phrase that means “different social classes”
social stratification
Big Meetings
1. Decided post-war Europe in 1815: Congress of Vienna
2. Decided who should get what piece of Africa: Berlin Conference
3. Napoleon met with this Czar and convinced him to boycott England: Alexander
4. Women met in this location in New York to discuss women’s rights: Seneca Falls Convention
5. Met with other influential creoles in an attempt to form a Grand Colombia: Bolivar
6. He met with Japanese leaders and forced Japan to enter into trade agreements: Commodore Matthew Perry
Dare to be different
1. Believed the world was pear shaped, even though scholars of the day knew better: Columbus
2. African region that remained Christian after the Muslim conquests: Ethiopia
3. Shi’ite empire surrounded by Sunnis: Safavid
4. Last Latin American country to abolish slavery: Brazil (1889)
5. Rejected the idea of divine right of kings and argued for social contract theory: Rousseau
6. Only female Pharaoh: Hatshepsut
Big, Fat, Losers
1. Led the Persian forces against Greece: Xerxes
2. Last emperor of the Inca: Atahualpa
3. Defeated by the Ethiopians during the Scramble for Africa: Italians
4. Orchestrated much of the carnage of the French Revolution, until he lost his head…literally: Robespierre
5. Mamluks defeated these pastoralists in the Battle of Goliaths well in Palestine, halting their expansion into N. Africa: Mongols
6. The Tang devastated this belief system on the grounds that it was foreign, barbaric and detrimental to the empire’s economy: Buddhism
7. Defeated by a superior Moroccan force in 1591 in a battle that is used as an example of military superiority of European made gunpowder technology: Songhai