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| 4414904404 | Foragers | people who got food by hunting and gathering | 0 | |
| 4414906397 | Neolithic Revolution | the "New Stone Age", the beginning of settled agriculture | 1 | |
| 4414907941 | Megalith | gigantic stone structures associated with Neolithic religion | 2 | |
| 4414910684 | Sumerians | the earliest civilizations for which writing exists | 3 | |
| 4414913448 | City-State | small independent political unit combining an urban center and farmland | 4 | |
| 4414915506 | Scribe | a professional writer in ancient societies | 5 | |
| 4414920026 | Chavín | an early civilization on South America's west coast | 6 | |
| 4414921037 | Confucius | Chinese thinker whose ideas of society strongly influenced Asian Culture | 7 | |
| 4414923366 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese idea that a ruler must govern with wisdom and mercy or fall | 8 | |
| 4414925366 | Olmec | chief early American culture, located on Mexico's Gulf Coast | 9 | |
| 4414926904 | Zhou Dynasty | China's longest-lived dynasty | 10 | |
| 4414929796 | Akhenaten | Egyptian ruler who created a short-lived monotheism | 11 | |
| 4414933239 | First Temple (Solomon's) | Israel's central shrine, built by Solomon around 950 B.C. | 12 | |
| 4414934491 | Hittites | powerful Indo-European empire, first users of iron in warfare | 13 | |
| 4414938163 | Aleaxander | defeated the Persian empire; began to create a new world civilization | 14 | |
| 4414940338 | Cyrus | Persion emperor who respected customs of the people he conquered | 15 | |
| 4414941610 | Hellenistic Age | a time when Greek and Eastern influences met and blended | 16 | |
| 4414944615 | Zoroastrianism | a Persian religion based on a struggle between good and evil | 17 | |
| 4414946903 | Aqueduct | Roman technology for carrying water from rivers into cities | 18 | |
| 4414948764 | Han Dynasty | Chinses dynasty, 206 B.C. to 220 A.D. | 19 | |
| 4414950491 | Paul | Jemsih convert who spread Christianity to non-Jews, or Gentiles | 20 | |
| 4414952810 | pax Romana | a period of relative peace in the early Roman empire | 21 | |
| 4414956519 | Qin Dynasty | China's first, but short-lived empire, 221-206 B.C. | 22 | |
| 4414958111 | Shi Huangdi | harsh founder of China's Qin empire | 23 | |
| 4414959855 | Buddha | founder of a religion which, like Hinduism, teaches reincarnation | 24 | |
| 4414961424 | Karma | the deeds of a person in an earlier life, determining status in this life | 25 | |
| 4414963060 | Moksha | the concept of freedom from reincarnation | 26 | |
| 4414965285 | Monsoon | a seasonal wind | 27 | |
| 4414966296 | Bantu | an important group of languages in Equatorial Africa | 28 | |
| 4414968011 | Indian Ocean Trade | a multilingual, multiethnic trade network | 29 | |
| 4414968881 | Silk Road | a trade route linking the Mediterranean world with China | 30 | |
| 4414971090 | Trans-Saharan Trade | trade linking the Mediterranean world with central Africa | 31 | |
| 4414986671 | Five Pillars of Islam | pilgrimage, faith, alms, prayer, fasting | 32 | |
| 4414994893 | Magnetic Compass | a Chinese maritime innovation | 33 | |
| 4414994914 | Three Submissions | in Chinese religions, women bowed down to their father, then their husband, then their son | 34 | |
| 4414995761 | Footbinding | a practice of China used to lower the status of women | 35 | |
| 4415011568 | Quetzalcoatl | a feathered serpent god | 36 | |
| 4415012960 | Maize | important crop fro complex civilizations that emerged in the Ohio and Mississippi region | 37 | |
| 4415017190 | Llama | crucial for food transportation in the Andes mountain region, carries up to 70 pounds | 38 | |
| 4415031583 | Kilwa | most important trading city on the Swahili coast | 39 | |
| 4415042403 | Magna Carta | a fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing laws and liberties | 40 | |
| 4415042404 | Parliament | the legislature of Great Britain | 41 | |
| 4415043144 | Vernacular Languages | language spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country of region | 42 | |
| 4415051947 | Caliphate | the Muslim government which succeeded Muhammad after his death | 43 | |
| 4415053486 | Hadith | a story of Muhammad's words or deeds while alive | 44 | |
| 4415055113 | Islam | an Arabic word meaning "submission"(to Allah) | 45 | |
| 4415058314 | Mamluks | Turks, hired as mercenaries, who took over the Abbasid caliphate | 46 | |
| 4415061531 | Muhammad | Islam's founder, also called the Prophet of the Messenger | 47 | |
| 4415063866 | Muslim | Islam follower | 48 | |
| 4415064656 | Quran | written record of Muhammad's teaching about his revelations | 49 | |
| 4415067368 | Shi'ites | Muslims who believe Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law, should lead Islam | 50 | |
| 4415069430 | Sunnis | supported the early caliphs and represent the majority of Muslims today | 51 | |
| 4415072633 | Umma | a community of Muslims | 52 | |
| 4415073251 | Crusades | a series of Christian military campaigns against Muslims | 53 | |
| 4415073962 | Fief | a land grant given in return for military service | 54 | |
| 4415074811 | Holy Roman Empire | a loose confederation of German princes in conflict with the papacy | 55 | |
| 4415077487 | Monasticism | the organizing of groups of monks | 56 | |
| 4415079924 | Papacy | office of pope in the Western church, a position of international power | 57 | |
| 4415081918 | Schism | the split between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, beginning in 1054 | 58 | |
| 4415083779 | Serf | agricultural worker legally bound to the land where he lived and worked | 59 | |
| 4415086332 | Champa Rice | a rapidly-growing crop brought to China from southern Vietnam | 60 | |
| 4415087062 | Junk | a high-tech oceangoing sailing ship | 61 | |
| 4415090407 | Neo-Confucianism | new interpretation of the ideas of China's greatest teacher | 62 | |
| 4415095180 | Song Empire | ruled part of China from 960-1279 | 63 | |
| 4415096849 | Aztecs | a warlike group ho settled in Central Mexico after the Toltec collapse | 64 | |
| 4415098000 | Inca | last major empire in western South America before Spanish conquest | 65 | |
| 4415100783 | Khipu/Quipu | a knotted-cord device used to aid counting and record-keeping | 66 | |
| 4415102164 | Maya | early civilazation located in Central America and southern Mexico | 67 | |
| 4415103816 | Mit'a | rotating labor system from Andean region of western South America | 68 | |
| 4415105706 | Tribute System | Aztecs made conquered peoples supply goods and victims | 69 | |
| 4415110134 | Genghis Khan | supreme leader of the Mongols from 1206-1227 | 70 | |
| 4415111376 | Yuan Empire | Khubilai Khan's branch if the Mongol empire centered in China | 71 | |
| 4415114301 | Bubonic Plague | infectious disease, carried by rats on trade routes | 72 | |
| 4415117159 | Golden Horde | the Mongol state controlling southern Russia | 73 | |
| 4415118822 | Alexander Nevskii | prince of the Russian city of Novgorod | 74 | |
| 4415120526 | Ottomans | Turks who destroyed the Byzantine empire | 75 | |
| 4415124120 | Khubilai Khan | Mongol ruler of China in the late 1200s | 76 | |
| 4415125141 | Zheng He | wide-ranging Chinese admiral of the early Ming dynasty, led several naval expeditions in the 1400s | 77 | |
| 4415127066 | Kamikaze | a typhoon which helps save Japan from Mongol invasion | 78 | |
| 4415130039 | Tropics | parts of the earth which receive direct sunlight | 79 | |
| 4415130948 | Dhow | a sailing ship widely used in the Indian Ocean trade | 80 | |
| 4415132777 | Swahili Coast | network of East African city-states involved in trade | 81 | |
| 4415135241 | Great Zimbabwe | South African state, powerful from about 1250-1450 | 82 | |
| 4415136884 | Timbuktu | a West African city important to Islam | 83 | |
| 4415139203 | 3-Field System | improved method of agriculture which raised crop yields | 84 | |
| 4415140707 | Black Death | bubonic plague | 85 | |
| 4415141543 | Hanseatic League | trade association of Northern European port cities | 86 | |
| 4415143390 | Guild | an association of workers in a related field | 87 | |
| 4415144894 | University | a center of learning | 88 | |
| 4415147934 | Printing Press | mass-produced writing, rapid spread of new ideas | 89 | |
| 4415150360 | Iberian Reconquest | Spain and Portugal's success in expelling Muslims | 90 | |
| 4415253356 | Smallpox | disease spread by trade | 91 | |
| 4415254517 | Polynesian Kingdom | 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean | 92 | |
| 4415284702 | Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who organized his country's voyages to Africa | 93 | |
| 4415287267 | Caravel | a versatile design of sailing ship developed for Atlantic voyages | 94 | |
| 4415289569 | Gold Coast | a region of West Africa's coast exploited by Portugal | 95 | |
| 4415290904 | Vasco de Gama | first Portuguese captain to sail ships around Africa to India | 96 | |
| 4415294477 | Ferdinand Magellan | the first European leader of on expedition to sail around the world | 97 | |
| 4415296175 | Conquistadors | Spanish "conquerers" in the Americas | 98 | |
| 4415299224 | Montezuma | Aztec emperor defeated by Cortés | 99 | |
| 4415301891 | Atahualpa | Inca emperor defeated and executed by Pizarro | 100 | |
| 4415314037 | Indulgence | the Church's granting forgiveness based on pious deeds | 101 | |
| 4415315530 | Protestant Reformation | a movement which rejected the pope's authority over Christians | 102 | |
| 4415321466 | Witch-Hunt | an attack on a person outside of church, by Protestants and Catholics | 103 | |
| 4415323034 | Scientific Revolution | explained the workings of the physical universe in naturalistic terms | 104 | |
| 4415324393 | Enlightenment | explained the workings of human society in naturalistic terms; an attempt to apply scientific principles to social issues | 105 | |
| 4415327212 | Deforestation | a serious scarcity of wood brought on by excessive consumption | 106 | |
| 4415329817 | Versailles | sumptuous palace built on orders of French king Louis XIV | 107 | |
| 4415332817 | Martin Luther | German professor of theology, rejected teachings of the Late Medieval Catholic Church | 108 | |
| 4415332818 | John Locke | English philosopher, most influential Enlightenment thinker | 109 | |
| 4415337229 | Galileo | viewed the new science with suspicion | 110 | |
| 4415346142 | Columbian Exchange | intercontinental trans fer of people, animals, plants, and diseases | 111 | |
| 4415349778 | Potosí | mountain of silver which supplied Spain's coins for years | 112 | |
| 4415351274 | Encomienda | forced labor-system the Spanish used in America until 1542 | 113 | |
| 4415354082 | Indentured Servanthood | person coming to America in exchange for 4-7 years of work | 114 | |
| 4415355369 | Iroquois Confederacy | alliance between five Native American tribes | 115 | |
| 4415357931 | Courers de Bois (Native American Fur Trade) | French woodsmen operating the fur trade in Canada | 116 | |
| 4415360996 | Atlantic System | ocean trade which shifted goods, peoples, and cultures | 117 | |
| 4415363774 | Middle Passage | the shipment of slaves from Africa to the American plantations | 118 | |
| 4415364885 | Songhai | West African empire defeated by Moroccan troops with firearms | 119 | |
| 4415367171 | Sugar | important crop in the West Indies that led to the expansion of the African slave trade | 120 | |
| 4415372115 | Ottoman Empire | Turkish Muslim empire with conquests in Europe and North Africa | 121 | |
| 4415374795 | Janissary | a lave recruited as a soldier by the Ottoman empire | 122 | |
| 4415375994 | Safavids | Persian/Iranian Shi'ite Muslim empire opposed to Ottomans | 123 | |
| 4415377504 | Hidden Imam | 12th descendant of Ali | 124 | |
| 4415379276 | Mughals | Indian Muslim rulers from the 1500s to the 1800s | 125 | |
| 4415380925 | Sikhism | new Indian religion after 1500, opposing Hindus and Muslims | 126 | |
| 4415383246 | Manchu | army from North China which established Qing empire | 127 | |
| 4415384805 | Ming | Chinese empire which decayed in the 1500s, ending 14 1644 | 128 | |
| 4415386220 | Kangxi | early Qing empire who assisted China's recovery | 129 | |
| 4415387836 | Macartney Mission | Britain's unsuccessful attempt in1792 to open trade with China | 130 | |
| 4415389466 | Muscovy | the land around Moscow | 131 | |
| 4415390211 | Siberia | larde region of east Russia | 132 | |
| 4415390808 | Peter the Great | aggressive Russian leader who expanded the country's territory | 133 | |
| 4415392493 | Jesuits | Catholic missionary organization created by Ignatius of Loyola | 134 | |
| 4415396776 | Hideyoshi | Japan's second "great unifier" | 135 | |
| 4419849298 | Maximilien Robespierre | most influential leader of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror | 136 | |
| 4419852878 | Stamp Act of 1756 | an act of the British Parliament that exacted the revenue from the American colonies | 137 | |
| 4419855683 | Battle of Saratoga | climax of the Saratoga campaign, American victory over the British in the American Revolutionary War | 138 | |
| 4419858295 | Estates General | French legislature which Louis XVI convened for tax help | 139 | |
| 4419869744 | Napoleon Bonaparte | an ambitious general who took over France's government | 140 | |
| 4419876486 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of a successful military revolt on Haiti against the French | 141 | |
| 4419883173 | Congress of Vienna | diplomats from allied countries trying to undo French changes | 142 | |
| 4419889144 | Thomas Malthus | theorized that the American population will outgrow the food supply | 143 | |
| 4419891590 | Child Labor | considered inhumane and unsafe for children under a certain age | 144 | |
| 4419894913 | Factory Act of 1833 | improved the factory conditions for working chldren | 145 | |
| 4419896068 | Industrial Revolution | dramatic changes in manufacturing, mining, communications, etc. | 146 | |
| 4419901601 | Agricultural Revolution | changes in farming that provided more food from fewer farmers | 147 | |
| 4419905214 | Mass Production | making many identical items by simplifying their manufacture | 148 | |
| 4419909544 | Steam Engine | first machine which transformed fossil fuel into mechanical energy | 149 | |
| 4419913564 | James Watt | perfected the steam engine | 150 | |
| 4419943616 | Simon Bolívar | liberator of numerous South American countries | 151 | |
| 4419959164 | Miguel Hidalgo | leader of the first Mexican uprising against Spanish rule, 1810-1811 | 152 | |
| 4419965034 | Confederation of 1867 | made Canada a self-governing dominion | 153 | |
| 4419969491 | Benito Juárez | Mexican president who survived a French invasion of his country | 154 | |
| 4419972586 | Abolitionists | people wishing to outlaw slavery | 155 | |
| 4419975795 | Underdevelopment | a low-wage economy based on exporting raw materials | 156 | |
| 4419983190 | Selim II | Sultan of the Ottoman empire from 1566-1574 | 157 | |
| 4419984839 | Ulama | those recognized as scholars or authorities | 158 | |
| 4419988648 | Alexander II | the emperor of Russia from 1855-1881 | 159 | |
| 4419988649 | Muhammad Ali | much-admired ruler of Egypt in the early 1800s | 160 | |
| 4419991811 | Serbia | country breaking away from Ottoman control, early 1800s | 161 | |
| 4419996349 | Crimean War | Russian against the Ottomans, French and British from 1853-1856 | 162 | |
| 4420000647 | Young Ottomans | an organization devoted to modernizing the Ottoman empire | 163 | |
| 4420005002 | Slavophile | Russians who opposed westernization | 164 | |
| 4420007975 | Pan-Slavism | a movement advocating the unity of all Slavic peoples | 165 | |
| 4420014018 | Opium War | 1839-1842 conflict which opposed China's weakness | 166 | |
| 4420018137 | Treaty Nanking | set the pro-Britsh conditions for ending the Opium war | 167 | |
| 4420023559 | Taiping Rebellion | the world's bloodiest civil war ever | 168 | |
| 4420030764 | Zulu | a warlike native South African kingdom | 169 | |
| 4420034835 | Legitimate Trade | any African exports aside from slaves | 170 | |
| 4420038620 | British Raj | the British reign over India | 171 | |
| 4420040198 | Sepoy Rebellion | a bloody 1850s uprising against British rule over India | 172 | |
| 4420048290 | Indian Civil Service | Britain's small, powerful and efficient bureaucracy in India | 173 | |
| 4420054415 | Contract of Indenture | made laborers work for 5-7 years to repay their voyage | 174 | |
| 4420068108 | Prussia | former state in north-central Germany | 175 | |
| 4420069379 | Labor Unions | organizations supporting industrial workers against employers | 176 | |
| 4420075525 | Second Industrial Revolution | larger industrial revolution in the latter half of the 19th century | 177 | |
| 4420077261 | Dreyfus Affair | Alfred Dreyfus was falsely convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans, 1859-1935 | 178 | |
| 4420079159 | Japanese Industrialization | Meiji planned to remain free from Western Imperial control by industrializing | 179 | |
| 4420083670 | Nationalism | the love of a territory, its government and its unique culture | 180 | |
| 4420090604 | Railroads | made steam engines prime mover on industry and commerce | 181 | |
| 4420093092 | Thomas Edison | brilliant inventor of a number of electrical devices | 182 | |
| 4420099254 | Karl Marx | socialist thinker and writer who invented communism | 183 | |
| 4420109396 | Giuseppe Garibaldi | revolutionary warrior involved in southern Italy's liberation | 184 | |
| 4420115784 | Otto von Bismarck | the evil genius of Germany's unification by "blood and iron" | 185 | |
| 4420122058 | Meiji Restoration | Japan's modernization movement of the late 1800s | 186 | |
| 4420126563 | Empress Dowager Cixi | ineffective Chinese ruler of the 1800s | 187 | |
| 4420137339 | Suez Canal | impressive building project which opened Egypt to British control | 188 | |
| 4420141571 | New Imperialism | the use of industrial technology to exploit the nonindustrial world | 189 | |
| 4420147731 | Scramble for Africa | the division of Africa between various European countries | 190 | |
| 4420150713 | Cecil Rhodes | ambitious British businessman and colonizer of southern Africa | 191 | |
| 4420157040 | Menelik | Ethiopian ruler defeating 1896 Italian attempt to annex his land | 192 | |
| 4420163002 | Panama Canal | built by USA over 10 years to allow its navy to move fast | 193 | |
| 4420169896 | Machine Gun | most potent defensive weapon of WWI | 194 | |
| 4420172294 | Submarine Warfare | introduced in WWI when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone | 195 | |
| 4420175083 | Zionist Movement | Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine | 196 | |
| 4420178881 | Women's Suffrage | the right for women to vote and stand for electoral office | 197 | |
| 4420183579 | Kemal Ataturk | Turkish army officer, first president of Turkey | 198 | |
| 4420185000 | Western Front | scene of WWI fighting, from the North Sea to the Swiss border | 199 | |
| 4420189088 | Balfour Declaration | 1917 promise of British support for the Zionist movement | 200 | |
| 4420196715 | Vladimir Lenin | leader of the Bolsheviks and first head of the USSR until 1924 | 201 | |
| 4420201947 | Fourteen Points | U.S, President Wilson's ideas to end WWI and insure peace | 202 | |
| 4420208299 | League of Nations | international organization created post-WWI to seek work peace | 203 | |
| 4420214952 | Treaty of Versailles | arrangement ending WWI and severely limiting German power | 204 | |
| 4420218611 | Sun Yat-sen | led China's revolution that ended the Qing dynasty in 1911 | 205 | |
| 4420225130 | Chiang Kai-shek | replaced Sun as Guomindang leader in 1925, seeking to rule China | 206 | |
| 4420232272 | Albert Einstein | he revised the science of physics, as developed by Isaac Newton | 207 | |
| 4420454963 | Women's Status USSR | women were elected to the rural soviets | 208 | |
| 4420454964 | Great Depression | longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world, 1929-1939 | 209 | |
| 4420456110 | Antibiotics | cured infectious, deadly diseases | 210 | |
| 4420456111 | Working Women | women worked the same jobs as men giving them more respect | 211 | |
| 4420496234 | Bangladesh | was liberated by the Cold War in 1917 | 212 | |
| 4420496235 | Madero | 33rd president of Mexico, 1911-1913 | 213 | |
| 4420515584 | Guatemala | Central American country south of Mexico | 214 | |
| 4420520982 | African Independence | Africa changed its names to show their independence | 215 | |
| 4420520983 | Fidel Castro | prime minister of Cuba from 1959-1976, then president from 1976-2008 | 216 | |
| 4420522633 | Bay of Pigs | a U.S, invasion in attempt to overthrow Castro | 217 | |
| 4420550882 | Brazilian Solution | first nation to experience the full effects of the conservative reaction to the Cuban Revolution | 218 | |
| 4420552639 | Immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country | 219 | |
| 4420555032 | Contras | counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinistas | 220 | |
| 4420557388 | Transnational Corporation | a worldwide enterprise is an organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in one or more countries other than their home country | 221 | |
| 4420568508 | Euro | What was a single currency used by members of the European Union? | 222 | |
| 4420570717 | Free Trade | international trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions. | 223 | |
| 4420571972 | English Language | first spoken in early medieval England | 224 | |
| 4420571973 | Internet | new technology of the industrial revolution | 225 | |
| 4420575522 | Greenhouse effect | the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere | 226 | |
| 4420592633 | Afghanistan | a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia, invaded by Soviet Troops in 1979 | 227 | |
| 4420595734 | Stalin | ambitious and evil second dictator of the USSR | 228 | |
| 4420599876 | Five-Year Plans | a program to enlarge Soviet heavy industries like steel and arms | 229 | |
| 4420605713 | Mussolini | Italian dictator copied by other demagogues | 230 | |
| 4420608361 | Hitler | applied Mussolini's ideas to Germany to create even more evil | 231 | |
| 4420613878 | Mao Zedong | first communist Chinese leader, ruling China from 1949 to 1976 | 232 | |
| 4420619430 | Stalingard | decisive defeat of German forces in Russia during WWII | 233 | |
| 4420623573 | Midway | June 1942 battle that stopped the Japanese advance in the Pacific | 234 | |
| 4420629055 | Hiroshima | horrific bombing, first military use of atomic warfare | 235 | |
| 4420633325 | Holocaust | the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish people | 236 | |
| 4420639617 | Indian National Congress | Organization created to raise the state of Indians in India | 237 | |
| 4420644107 | All-India Muslim League | organization dedicated to securing Muslim rights in India | 238 | |
| 4420648292 | African National Congress | created in 1912 to defend African interests in South Africa | 239 | |
| 4420650207 | Gandhi | skillfully resisted the British in India nonviolently | 240 | |
| 4420654825 | Jinnah | articulated Indian Muslim demands for their own homeland, Pakistan | 241 | |
| 4420658914 | Zapata | peasant leader who opposed Madero's pro-U.S. Mexican government of 1911-1913 | 242 | |
| 4420665059 | Pancho Villa | controversial leader in northern Mexico during the country's civil war | 243 | |
| 4420671405 | Cárdenas | Mexican president who redistributed land to peasants and seized foreign oil | 244 | |
| 4420675263 | Vargas | Brazilian president who oversaw the beginnings of industrialization | 245 | |
| 4420682249 | Eva Perón | charismatic Argentinian politician loved by "shirtless ones" | 246 | |
| 4420690820 | Iron Curtain | an evocative phrase coined by Churchill to describe E-W tensions | 247 | |
| 4420694912 | Cold War | struggle for world dominance between USA and USSR, 1945-1991 | 248 | |
| 4420699413 | United Nations | successor to League of Nations as organization for world peace | 249 | |
| 4420703331 | World Bank | organization created to fund development in needy countries | 250 | |
| 4420709957 | Marshall Plan | successful plan to restore Western Europe's economy, post WWI | 251 | |
| 4420717171 | European Community | an economic alliance of 6-15 European countries | 252 | |
| 4420719857 | Warsaw Pact | Soviet-dominated military alliance created in answer to NATO | 253 | |
| 4420725607 | Cuban Missile Crisis | high point of the Cold War in 1962, ended by negotiations | 254 | |
| 4420730068 | Third World | countries refusing to take sides in the Cold War | 255 | |
| 4420734993 | Cultural Revolution | Mao's communist Chinese attempt to raise radical commitment | 256 | |
| 4420738716 | OPEC | wealthy oil-producing nations seeking to maintain high prices | 257 | |
| 4420743282 | Proxy Wars | conflicts indirectly involving the USA and USSR | 258 | |
| 4420748396 | Salvador Allende | Chilean socialist leader overthrown and killed in 1973 | 259 | |
| 4420754433 | Ayatollah Khomeini | leader of an Islamic fundamentalist revolution in Iran | 260 | |
| 4420758579 | Saddam Hussein | brutal Iraqi dictator, 1979-2003 | 261 | |
| 4420762109 | NIE | countries which industrialized rapidly and successfully after WWII | 262 | |
| 4420769305 | Tiananmen Square | 1989 site of a bloody massacre of Chinese seeking civil rights | 263 | |
| 4420773226 | Gorbachev | reforming leader of the USSR who saw communist rule end there | 264 | |
| 4420776470 | Solidarity | Polish liberation movement which helped end the USSR's control | 265 | |
| 4420784820 | Demographic Transition | zero population growth from reduced fertility and infant mortality | 266 | |
| 4420941593 | Globalization | joining the world culturally, economically an politically | 267 | |
| 4420946593 | World Trade Organization | 149 nations trying to reduce international trade barriers | 268 | |
| 4420950576 | Weapon of Mass Production | nuclear, chemical, biological weapons | 269 | |
| 4420952305 | bin Laden | leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist movement | 270 | |
| 4420956469 | Nongovernmental Organization | International philanthropic groups | 271 | |
| 4420961625 | Global Pop Culture | a growing worldwide popular culture | 272 | |
| 4420962918 | Global Elite Culture | contributes to linkage of world leaders | 273 | |
| 4420969075 | Bengal | Eastern Indian province, controversially split by British | 274 |
