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| 4434284128 | nonalignment | the policy of some developing nations to refrain from aligning themselves with either the US or the Soviet Union during the Cold War | 0 | |
| 4434289134 | United Nations | international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations | 1 | |
| 4434293064 | Cold War | tense diplomatic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII | 2 | |
| 4434297753 | aristocracy | rule by a privileged hereditary class or nobility | 3 | |
| 4434304045 | Agriculture in the Yangtze River Valley | cultivated rice about 6500 BCE | 4 | |
| 4434305549 | hieroglyphics | system of picture writings used in Egypt | 5 | |
| 4434307834 | Modern Art in Mexico | artists such as Diego Rivera painted murals on public buildings; depicted scenes from the Mexican Revolution and hopes for future progress | 6 | |
| 4434317241 | Pax Romana | The Roman Peace; period of prosperity and stability throughout the Roman Empire; first two centuries CE | 7 | |
| 4434324055 | Russo-Japanese War | 1904-1905; war between Japan and Russia over Manchurian territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese navy | 8 | |
| 4434329260 | Latin American Migration | sizable migration as inhabitants of rural areas migrated to urban regions in search of jobs; newcomers lived in shantytowns on the outskirts of cities | 9 | |
| 4434342210 | Ninety-Five Theses | statements for debate drawn up by Martin Luther; stated that salvation is obtained through faith in Jesus as the savior of the world from sin | 10 | |
| 4434347471 | People of Han | name used even today by the Chinese as a tribute to the accomplishments of the Han to Chinese culture | 11 | |
| 4434352092 | Shariah | body of law that governs Muslim society | 12 | |
| 4434354544 | Predestination | protestant reformer John Calvin's belief that God had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell | 13 | |
| 4434358387 | Great Trek | migration (1834) of the boers into the interior of South Africa; result of conflict between the Boers and British over the end of slavery | 14 | |
| 4434363914 | Evangelical | pertaining to preaching the Gospel; pertaining to theologically conservative Christians | 15 | |
| 4434367960 | Aswan Dam Project | attempt by Egypt to create additional farmland; its interference in the Nile's flood patterns deprived the land of fertile salt; increased deposits of salt in the soil | 16 | |
| 4434377690 | China's One-Child Policy | only one child per family allowed; force abortions and sterilizations; relaxed in some parts of China by 2007 to allow some urban couples to have two children | 17 | |
| 4434382037 | East Asian Demographics | high population growth; by the 1980s, South Korea had the highest population density in the world; Japan promoted birth control and abortion | 18 | |
| 4434388342 | WWII New Technology | atomic bomb, jet engines, tape recordings, radar | 19 | |
| 4434391452 | Serf | peasant bound to the land he or she works | 20 | |
| 4434392785 | Apartheid | South African policy of separation of the races | 21 | |
| 4434394674 | Khan | Mongol ruler | 22 | |
| 4434396812 | Samurai | military class of feudal Japan | 23 | |
| 4434399376 | Migration from Mexico | during the 1940s, the US set up programs with Mexico to provide workers; hundreds of thousands of migrants, legal and illegal, continue to end the US | 24 | |
| 4434403552 | Latin American Trade and WWI | WWI and European trade brought prosperity to Latin America; Latin America turned to import substitution industrialization | 25 | |
| 4434411382 | WWI and Global Trade | during WWI, European nations failed to recover their dominant export positions; European trade lost out to the US and Japan | 26 | |
| 4434417947 | African Demographics | high birth rates and lower mortality rates resulted in significant population increases in the 20th century; trend continued in spite of AIDS | 27 | |
| 4434423383 | Brahmin | member of the social class of priests in Aryan society | 28 | |
| 4434428805 | Religious Conflict in Nigeria | from 2000 to 2004, religious conflict in Nigeria caused Christians and Muslims to flee to areas where their religion was the majority faith | 29 | |
| 4434435366 | Alexander the Great | unified Greek and Persian culture; reached Indian subcontinent (327 BCE) as far as the Indus River, where he set up a border state called Bactria | 30 | |
| 4434441854 | Scholar-Gentry | Chinese class of well-educated men from whom many of the bureaucrats were chosen | 31 | |
| 4434456119 | Glasnots | 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed open expression of ideas in the Soviet Union | 32 | |
| 4434460790 | Huns | nomads of Central Asia; their movement in the fifth century pushed Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire | 33 | |
| 4434465027 | Imperialism | establishment of colonial empires | 34 | |
| 4434466832 | Society of Jesus | term for the Jesuits; did missionary work in the Americas and Asia, taking Christianity and the knowledge of European technology to those continents | 35 | |
| 4434474752 | Cuba and World Trade | US was Cuba's leading trade partner before 1959; Cuban prosperity was uncertain because of fluctuation in world demands for sugar | 36 | |
| 4434480541 | AP World Themes | human-environmental interaction; cultural interaction; political development; economic systems; change in social structures | 37 | |
| 4434486713 | Boxer Rebellion | revolt (1898) against foreign residents of China | 38 | |
| 4434489797 | Congress of Vienna | conference (1815) of European leaders that met after the fall of Napoleon; restored legitimate monarchs to the thrones of Europe and created the balance of power | 39 | |
| 4437428225 | Global Culture | dominated by Western trends; disapproval in East Asian and Islamic cultures; english is the language of commerce and the Internet | 40 | |
| 4437439586 | Manifest Destiny | in the US, the mid-19th century belief that the country was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific | 41 | |
| 4437445725 | Coalition | a government based on temporary alliances of several political parties | 42 | |
| 4437447164 | brinkmanship | the Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war at any sign of aggression on the part of either power | 43 | |
| 4437451714 | Treaty of Tordesillas | the 1494 treaty in which the pope divided unexplored territories between Spain and Portugal | 44 | |
| 4437457497 | Classical Civilizations | civilizations that had enduring influence over vast numbers of people | 45 | |
| 4437460034 | Zaibatsu | large industrial organization created in Japan during the industrialization of the late nineteenth century | 46 | |
| 4437473877 | Yuan Dynasty | 1271-1368; name given to the Mongol ruler of China; religious toleration; welcomed foreign scholars and artisans; Chinese local officials | 47 | |
| 4437482069 | Great Leap Forward | the disastrous economic policy of Mao Zedong that proposed the use of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes | 48 | |
| 4437488707 | Limitations Placed on African Women | government imposition of shariah law in regions of Nigeria and other Muslim-dominated African nations threatened women's independence and security | 49 | |
| 4437493237 | Ramadan | holy month of Islam; commemorates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad; fasting is required during this month | 50 | |
| 4437584031 | Radio Technology | used for communication during WWI; first commercial radio broadcast aired in 1920; government control of the airwaves in Europe | 51 | |
| 4437589602 | Scientific Revolution | European intellectual movement in the 17th century that established the basis for modern science | 52 | |
| 4437593460 | WWI New Technology | airplanes used in combat, dirigibles, tanks, more sophisticate weaponry, poison gas | 53 | |
| 4437598391 | Partition of India and Migration | largest migration in history occurred in 1947 and 1948 when the partition of India and Pakistan led to migration of Muslims to Pakistan and Hindus to India | 54 | |
| 4437603479 | Government of India Act | an act passed by the British Parliament in 1935 to increase suffrage and turn provincial governments over to Indian leaders | 55 | |
| 4437607953 | Capital | the money and equipment need to engage in industrialization | 56 | |
| 4437610230 | Berlin Wall | a wall constructed in 1961 by the Soviets to divide East and West Berlin; built to stern the tide of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin; torn down in 1989 | 57 | |
| 4437615822 | Purges | Joseph Stalin's policy of exiling or killing millions of his opponents in the Soviet Union | 58 | |
| 4437620578 | Sino-Japanese War | 1895; fought for control of Korea; Japan defeated China | 59 | |
| 4437624452 | Five-Year Plans | plans for industrial production introduced in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin in 1928; made the Soviet Union a major industrial power | 60 | |
| 4437635189 | Abacus | an ancient Chinese counting device that used rods on which were mounted movable counters | 61 | |
| 4437637465 | Palestinian Refugees | first Arab-Israeli War in 1948 created hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees | 62 | |
| 4437642382 | International Space Station | vehicle sponsored by 16 nations; circles the Earth while carrying out experiments | 63 | |
| 4437645274 | Entrepreneurship | ability to combine the factors of land, labor, and capital to create factory production | 64 | |
| 4437648545 | Geneva Conference | 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel | 65 | |
| 4437651201 | Iran-Iraq Conflict | Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq, took advantage of Iranian weakness by annexing its oil-rich western provinces; with peace in 1988, Iran was devastated economically | 66 | |
| 4437657166 | Shinto | traditional Japanese religion; based on veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature | 67 | |
| 4437659959 | Genocide | systematic killing of an entire ethnic group | 68 | |
| 4437661751 | Karma | Hindu tradition, the good of evil deeds done by a person | 69 |
