| Term | Definition |
|---|
| This ruler was nicknamed the Sun King and built Versailles, curbed the power of the nobles and protestants. His reign ended in a series of wars. | Louis XIV |
| This British monarch was overthrown by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 | James II |
| This Russian Tzar modernized Russia at great cost. He built a new capital on the Baltix and made Russia a major military power | Peter I |
| This Habsburg ruler reigned in the mid-18th century. She began the modernization of her empire but lost Silesia to Frederick the Great | Maria Theresa |
| Palace of the French Kings from roughly 1660-1789 | Versailles |
| Which of the following English laws did Sir Edward Coke use against King Charles I of England in the struggle that resulted in the English Civil War | Magna Carta |
| After the execution of Charles I, England was ruled by | Oliver Cromwell |
| This dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644 | Ming |
| This dynasty ruled China from 1644-1911 | Qing |
| Japanese word for lord. Rivals to the Shogun | Daimyo |
| This dynasty of Shoguns ruled Japan from 1600 to 1868 | Tokugawa |
| This dynasty ruled Viet-nam from 1802 until 1800's | Nguyen |
| Ottomans conquered Egypt in 1517 from these slave soldiers | Mamluks |
| List the three gold kings in the Niger river valley | Ghana, Mali, Songhai |
| Impressive ruins in the Southern Africa, capital of the Shone State, it gives its name to a modern southern African country | Great Zimbabwe |
| This west African state was famous for its culture and bronzes | Benin |
| This nation, located in the Arabian Peninsula, ruled Zanzibar | Oman |
| The Ottomans ruled from this city | Istanbul |
| This Ottoman sultan ruled from 1520 to 1566 | Suleyman the Magnificent |
| Name of the dynasty that ruled Persia from 1500 - 1722 | Safavid |
| Ached is located on what island of Indonesia | Sumatra |
| The Sikh religion was based on this man's irenic teachings | Guru Nanak |
| Name given to the paper money of the French Revolution. In theory, secured by unbought Church lands and overproduction touched off wave of inflation | Assignats |
| The first republic of France was established in what year | 1792 |
| This General, who was actually Italian, was the ultimate winner of the French Revolution by 1799 | Napoleon |
| This southern European country was the bleeding ulcer for Napoleon's Empire, which he occupied and tried to invade | Spain |
| This man united German states into the German empire | Otto von Bismarck |
| The Decemberist Revolution took place in | Russia |
| This country passed the Reform Bill of 1832 | United Kingdom |
| The revolutions of this year saw the overthrow of Metternich as Prime Minister of Austria | 1848 |
| The major crop of Slave South before Civil War was | cotton |
| This man wrote the Jewish State which argued for a Jewish homeland | Theodore Herzl |
| The cholera epidemic of London in 1846 was caused by | industrialization |
| Which Euro nation was the least industrialized in 1900 | Russia |
| Which of the following was the first to introduce social welfare programs (Russia, France, England, Germany) | Germany |
| This German socialist challenged Marx's notion of the need for violent revolution and instread argued that electoral politics would be more successful | Eduard Bernstein |
| This Latin American nation was an empire until the 1880's | Brazil |
| Name given to a large estate in Latin American | latifundia |
| This man ruled Argentina from 1827 - 1855 | Rosas |
| This man was the president of Mexico when France attempted to conquer Mexico and install a new emperor | Benito Juarez |
| The overthrow of this man resulted in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 | Diaz |
| Year Brazil abolished slavery | 1888 |
| The Indian Mutiny took place in | 1857 |
| This canal linked Europe with India | suez |
| With no living Imam to guide them, Shi'a followed this cleric | mujtahid |
| This Man ruled Egypt from 1805-1849 | Muhammad Ali |
| The Boers of South Africa are actually Spanish Settlers (T,F) | False |
| Which of the following is a German colony in 1914 (Eritrea, Rio De Ora, Togo, Pemba) | Togo |
| Name given the the Persian middle class | Bazaari |
| This treaty signed in 1840 opened much of China to Western Trade | Treaty of Nanjing |
| China defeated Japan in 1895 (T / F) | false |
| This group revolted against the Qing 1850-1873 | Taipings |
| The Tokugawa were emperors of Japan (T, F) | false |
| Name given to the period of westernization in Japan 1868-1912 | Meiji |
| China, Japan, Russia all wanted this small hermit kingdom | Korea |
| Who were the three nations that were a part of the Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria, Italy |
| This member of the Triple A proclaimed neutrality in 1914 then joined the other side in 1915 | Italy |
| This German naval weapon, if used ruthlessly, would probably have won the war for Germany | Submarine |
| Lenin overthrew Tsar Nicholas II in Feb. 1917 (T/F) | False |
| This man's murder was the spark of World War One | Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| The invasion of this neutral country by Germany in 1914 brought the UK into the war against Germany | Belgium |
| This city gave its name to the German Republic in 1919 (Keil, Berlin, Weimar, Bonn) | weimar |
| Stalin defeated Trtsky to become leader of the Soviet Union (T/F) | True |
| Name given to wealthy peasants in the Soviet Union during the collectivization of the 1930's | kulaks |
| Fascism has its start in post WWI Italy (T/F) | True |
| The USSR was an ally of Germany for part of WWII (TF) | True |
| Italy was an ally of the USA from 1939-1943 (TF) | False |
| This Battle, named for the city in which it took place, was the turning point of the German-Russian front of 1941-1945 | Stalingrad |
| This American Economic Plan helped in the recovery of post WWII Europ | Marshall Plan |
| This alliance was directed against the Soviet Union | NATO |
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