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| 6337560915 | Caliph | the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad. The ______ ruled in Baghdad until 1258 and then in Egypt until the Ottoman conquest of 1517; the Ottoman sultans then held the title until Atatürk abolished it in 1924. | 0 | |
| 6337560916 | Caliphate | Islamic equivalents of dynasties, Muslim states. | 1 | |
| 6337560917 | Calligraphy | A visual art using writing | 2 | |
| 6337560918 | Camp David Accords | Hopeful event for Arab-Israeli peace, led to the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, but other Arab countries did not follow suite. | 3 | |
| 6337560919 | Capitalism | Economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. | 4 | |
| 6337560920 | Caravel | Highly maneuverable sailing ship created in the Age of Exploration by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic. | 5 | |
| 6337560921 | Caste | A social structure in India where status is determined in a hierarchy and passed on through family. | 6 | |
| 6337560922 | Cataracts | Shallow lengths where many small boulders, stones, and rocky islets break up the surface of the water, as in the Nile River. | 7 | |
| 6337560923 | Census | A procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about a population's members. | 8 | |
| 6337560924 | Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in WW1. | 9 | |
| 6337560925 | Charter | Grant of authority or rights - used as a lease of a ship. | 10 | |
| 6337560926 | Christendom | Christian world, where the Christian Church is the established religion of the state. | 11 | |
| 6337560927 | Christianity | monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of the Christ. | 12 | |
| 6337560928 | Circumnavigate | To travel a full ring around the planet. | 13 | |
| 6337560929 | Circus | Large open-air venue used for public events in the Roman Empire. | 14 | |
| 6337560930 | Citadel | A fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city. | 15 | |
| 6337560931 | City-State | Sovereign state consisting of a city and its dependent territories. | 16 | |
| 6337560932 | Civil Law | A branch of law which consists of non-criminal law, concerned with the rights and duties of persons and corporations; any of the various systems or codes of law which are derived from Roman law historically. | 17 | |
| 6337560933 | Civil Service | People in the public sector employed for a government department or agency. | 18 | |
| 6337560934 | Civilization | Any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, symbolic communication (writing systems) and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment. | 19 | |
| 6337560935 | Clergy | The main and important formal leaders within certain religions such as Christianity. | 20 | |
| 6337560936 | Cloning | The process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals. | 21 | |
| 6337560937 | Codex | Gradual replacement for the scroll, offering a form that lasted for centuries. | 22 | |
| 6337560938 | Cold War | A state of political and military tension after WWII between the communist powers and the United States alongside NATO allies and others. | 23 | |
| 6337560939 | Columbian Exchange | Widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World between 15th and 16th centuries. | 24 | |
| 6337560940 | Commonwealth | A political community founded for the common good - often used synonymously with "republic." | 25 | |
| 6337560941 | Communism | The philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology whose end goal is the establishment of ___________ society, structured upon common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state. | 26 | |
| 6337560942 | Concentration Camps | Used to hold and torture political opponents, union organizers, and others. | 27 | |
| 6337560943 | Confucianism | A tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a way of governing, or a way of life. The core of ____________ is humanistic, with particular emphasis on the importance of family and social harmony. | 28 | |
| 6337560944 | Conquistador | A term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish or Portuguese Empires in a general sense. During the age of exploration, they sailed beyond Europe to the Americas, Oceania, Africa and Asia, conquering territory and opening trade routes. They colonized of the world for Spain Portugal in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. | 29 | |
| 6337560945 | Constitution | A set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. These rules make up the identity of the entity. | 30 | |
| 6337560946 | Constitutional Monarchy | A form of monarchy in which the sovereign exercises their authorities in accordance with a written or unwritten constitution. | 31 | |
| 6337560947 | Consul | Highest elected political office of the Roman Republic, and the ______ship was considered the highest level of the cursus honorum. Each year, two ______ were elected together, to serve for a one-year term. | 32 | |
| 6337560948 | Containment | A geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. Best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism. | 33 | |
| 6337560949 | Continental System | Foreign policy of Napoleon Bonaparte in France, a response to the naval blockade by the British government. Weakened Napoleon's coalition because angry governments who did not want to be excluded from trade with Britain had an incentive to ignore it. | 34 | |
| 6337560950 | Contras | Label given to the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing militant groups active from 1979 to the early 1990's in opposition to the left-wing socialist government in Nicaragua. | 35 | |
| 6337560951 | Cottage Industry | Small-scale industry where the creation of products and services is home-based, rather than factory-based. | 36 | |
| 6337560952 | Council of Trent | Held between 1545 and 1563 in ______ and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. It was the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation | 37 | |
| 6337560953 | Counterculture | A subculture whose values and norms of behaviors differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to the mainstream culture. | 38 | |
| 6337560954 | Counter-Reformation | Period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, composed of ecclesiastical/structural reconfiguration, religious orders, spiritual movements, and political dimensions. | 39 | |
| 6337560955 | Counterrevolution | Opposing of a revolution, particularly those who attempt to act after a revolution to overturn or reverse it. | 40 | |
| 6337560956 | Count | Title in European countries for a noble of varying status, but historically deemed to convey an approximate rank intermediate between the highest and lowest titles of nobility. | 41 | |
| 6337560957 | Coup D' etat | An illegal and overt overthrow of a state by the military or other elites within the state. | 42 | |
| 6337560958 | Court | A tribunal, often as a government institution with the authority to judge legal disputes and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters. | 43 | |
| 6337560959 | Covenant | In a religious sense, a formal alliance or agreement made by God with a religious community or humanity in general. | 44 | |
| 6337560960 | Credit | Any form of deferred payment, the granting of a loan and the creation of debt. | 45 | |
| 6337560961 | Creoles | Descendants of European colonial settlers. | 46 | |
| 6337560962 | Crimean War | A military conflict fought from 1853 to 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. | 47 | |
| 6337560963 | Crusades | A series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. Campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean focused on the recovery of the Holy Land. | 48 | |
| 6337560964 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey and the consequent U.S.S.R. deployment in Cuba. Closest the Cold War came to becoming a hot war. | 49 | |
| 6337560965 | Cultural Diffusion | The spread of cultural items such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages, etc. between individuals, often from one culture to another. | 50 | |
| 6337560966 | Cultural Revolution | A sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 to 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, with the stated goal of preserving true communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. | 51 | |
| 6337560967 | Culture | Defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses and material expressions, which, over time, express the continuities and discontinuities of social meaning of a life held in common. | 52 | |
| 6337560968 | Cuneiform | One of the earliest systems of writings invented by the Sumerians, and distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. | 53 | |
| 6337560969 | Cyrillic Alphabet | A writing system used for various alphabets across eastern Europe and north/central Asia. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages in southeastern Europe and northern Eurasia. | 54 | |
| 6337560970 | Czar | A title used to designate the equivalent of a king in Russian/Slavic nations. | 55 |
