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| 9902459407 | Lydians | Western Turkey empire, 1200 BCE to 600 BCE | 0 | |
| 9902459408 | Akkadians | Fertile Crescent empire, 2334 BC to 2154 BC | 1 | |
| 9902466547 | Assyrians | Upper Fertile Crescent, 2500 BCE to 609 BCE | 2 | |
| 9902979073 | helots | Class of serfs in Sparta, intermediate in rank between a slave and a citizen | 3 | |
| 9903067811 | Teutons | Possible Germanic tribe located around Jutland or somewhere in Scandinavia | 4 | |
| 9913718262 | corvée system | Unpaid, unfree labor that is intermittent in nature and limited in time; usually with regards to peasant farmers who occasionally submit to a feudal lord, or to state that require general citizens to contribute to public works projects | 5 | |
| 9913987879 | Zhang Qian | Han dynasty diplomat under Emperor Wu of Han; travelled the Silk Road and spent a lot of time in Central Asia | 6 | |
| 9914288143 | Helsinki Accords | Final part of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; signed by all European countries (except Albania and Andorra), Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, the United States, and Canada; attempted to improve relations and cooperation between the communist bloc and the West | 7 | |
| 9914343370 | historiography | The study of how historical accounts are produced | 8 | |
| 9914350795 | Celts | Iron Age/Medieval peoples of western Europe and the British Isles | 9 | |
| 9914350796 | Scythians | Group of Iranian nomads who inhabited the area west of the Black Sea from the 9th to the 1st centuries BCE | 10 | |
| 9914487057 | sakk | Predecessor to a check; credit instrument used by many Arab institutions long ago | 11 | |
| 9915145838 | Jan Hus | Central figure of the Bohemian Reformation, a key predecessor to the Protestant Reformation; Czech in origin | 12 | |
| 9925676889 | Battle of Talas | Battle between the Abbasids and Tibetans on one side and the Tang Dynasty under Emperor Xuanzong on the other; the Abbasid victory marked the end of Tang expansionism to the west | 13 | |
| 9925682285 | huaca | Inca holy site or revered object | 14 | |
| 9926647347 | Razin Rebellion | Example of peasant revolt against aristocracy during the century; from 1670 to 1671, Stepan _________ revolted against boyars and administrators in the Duchy of Muscovy along the Volga River; claimed to be doing the tsar a favor by removing corruption | 15 | |
| 9926677132 | Cripps Mission | Headed by Sir Stafford __________ of the United Kingdom in 1942; intended to secure full Indian support for the World War II effort; failure resulted in the Quit India Movement and the subsequent crackdown and jailing of various Indian leaders | 16 | |
| 9928549885 | Franco-Prussian War | War in 1870 and 1871 between the French and Germans; German victory resulted in the fall of the French Second Empire under Napoleon III, the creation of the French 3rd Republic, and the unification of the German states into the German Empire under Otto von Bismarck's guidance | 17 | |
| 9928667173 | devshirme | The practice of forcibly recruiting Christian boys from the Balkans region, converting them to Christianity, and putting them through a series of examinations to determine their place in the Ottoman elites; used to create the Janissaries | 18 | |
| 9929087354 | Darfur | Region of western Sudan suppressed and mistreated by Sudanian government; result of ethnic differences (people of this region are Blacks as opposed to the Sudanians, who view themselves as Arabs even though they are not technically Arab) | 19 | |
| 9932879480 | Janjaweed | Militia that attacks the people of Darfur | 20 | |
| 9932900788 | Green Belt Movement | Major ecological movement in Kenya | 21 | |
| 9935636664 | Mukden Incident | 1931 incident where Japan staged the bombing of a railway that they had built in Manchuria as an excuse for the invasion of Manchuria; provided pretext for the Second Sino-Japanese War | 22 | |
| 9935682516 | Molotov Plan | Plan named for the Soviet foreign minister immediately before, during, and after World War II; served as a counterweight to the Marshall Plan in eastern Europe | 23 | |
| 9935689612 | National Security Report 68 | Secret policy paper of the United States that set up a plan to militarize the United States and her western Allies during the Truman administration | 24 | |
| 9935967364 | Bretton Woods Conference | aka UN Monetary and Financial Conference; meeting between the 44 Allied nations to discuss the international monetary and financial order after World War II | 25 | |
| 9938158340 | Atahuallpa | Last leader of the Incas; defeated and killed by Francisco Pizarro | 26 | |
| 9952346117 | Royal Road | Built by Darius the Great to promote transportation and communication through the Persian Empire; also considered part of the Silk Road | 27 | |
| 9952346118 | satraps | Provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire | 28 | |
| 9952347592 | qanats | Underground irrigation canals associated with Persia; spread to Arabic world | 29 | |
| 9952367354 | Delian League | Alliance formed by Greek city states in response to Persian invasion under Xerxes | 30 | |
| 9952384328 | equal-field system | Land ownership and distribution policy under the Sui and Tang dynasties | 31 | |
| 9952400947 | Pax Romana | Term for period of peace brought on by Roman Empire's control | 32 | |
| 9952402859 | Pax Mongolica | Term created by historians as analog to Pax Romana, except during the Mongol Empire | 33 | |
| 9952407955 | yassa law | Law code of Genghis Khan instituted by Mongols | 34 | |
| 9952430346 | Edict of Milan | Edict that established Christianity as Roman religion under Constantine | 35 | |
| 9952436502 | Council of Trent | 1545 meeting crucial to the Catholic Reformation (aka counter-reformation) that established what was heresy, what were the doctrines of the church, and made the courts of the Inquisition | 36 | |
| 9952449534 | pashas | Nobles in the Ottoman Empire | 37 | |
| 9952463273 | John Stewart Mill | Liberal utilitarian who believed that a bit of socialism mixed in with capitalism will maximize a society's utility | 38 | |
| 9952474281 | Luddism | Movement that rejected industrialization; often destroyed machinery in protests to make point | 39 | |
| 9952477743 | Jacobins | Radical group among the French Revolutionary government | 40 | |
| 9952515940 | Munich Pact | Agreement signed between Neville Chamberlain (UK) and Adolf Hitler (Germany) to appease Hitler and allow him to annex the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; it was (wrongly) hoped that would quench Hitler's thirst for more land | 41 | |
| 9952553253 | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) | Two sets of talks between the USSR and the US to limit the amount of strategic nuclear weapons available to both countries; froze the number of nuclear launch capable devices such as missiles and launchers, and sought to reduced nuclear weapons' manufacture | 42 | |
| 9952557119 | detente | A period a relaxed relations between two countries; used especially during the Cold War under the Nixon administration; continued through Ford and Carter administrations but ended with Reagan administration | 43 | |
| 9952563650 | Nikolae Ceausescu | Romanian Communist dictator known for brutal authoritarianism; killed by a quick, bloody revolt in 1989 that ended Communism in Romania | 44 | |
| 9952594138 | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) | Two treaties between Russia and the US, to reduce the amount of nuclear and strategic weapons to a certain level | 45 | |
| 9952609860 | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) | Treaty that ended short and intermediate range ballistic missiles capable of delivering strategic or nuclear warheads | 46 | |
| 9964230264 | Red Turban Rebellion | Rebellion started by the White Lotus Society to overthrow the Mongol Yuan dynasty | 47 | |
| 9965082710 | morley minto reforms | 48 |
