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Ancient World & Religions
Definitions Famous Autocrats Revolutions Twentieth Century
since 1945
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Location of the earliest civilization in India
Lawmaker of ancient Babylonian civilization
The period of domestication of animals and growing of crops
Religious terms: Eightfold Path, Four Noble Truths, and nirvana
belong to this religion
Kingdom in West Africa experiencing advances in mathematics, science and
medicine and art.
Feeling pride and devotion to one’s country.
Spread of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause.
The systematic extermination or destruction of an entire people or
national group
Period from about 1350-1600 in which European scholars revived the learning of ancient Greece and Rome
Form of government in which religious leaders serve as rulers
This is a policy of openness domestically, and towards the west initiated by Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbahev
This German Nazi nationalist outlined the theory of the
“master race”
This leader provided Russia with a “window” to the west
This famous autocrat built the palace of Versailles
The ruler of the Byzantine empire
(527-565)
used this set of laws to unite the empire under his control
Supreme ruler of all mongols conquered a vast empire that
stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe
This prison became a symbol of the French
revolution in 1789
This was a long slow revolution which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines
This revolutionary, a creole priest in Mexico, is famous for
“El Grito Dolores”
In 1816, this gifted general helped Argentina win
freedom from Spain
In November1917 this Bolshevik leader
overthrew the existing government promising
“peace, land and bread”
This war was known as a
“war of words”
In 1949, Western powers formed an alliance against
Soviet aggression
Led by Lech Walesa, this trade union pressured the government of Poland for changes that would improve the standard of living.
In 1992 this Yugoslav republic was accused of “ethnic cleansing, ” in which Serbs killed or terrorized thousands of Muslim civilians.
The burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and natural gas – by
factories, automobiles, and other sources releases chemical
pollutants into the air.