374529142 | zulu | a people of modern south africa whom King Shaka united in 1818 | 0 | |
374529143 | ziggurat | a massive period stepped tower made of mud bricks. it is associated with religious complexes in ancient mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown | 1 | |
374529144 | zhou | these people created the mandate of heaven to justify their rule | 2 | |
374529145 | zheng he | an imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that went through the indian ocean, from southeast asia to africa | 3 | |
374529146 | zen | the japanese word for a branch of mahayana buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation | 4 | |
374529147 | emiliano zapata | revolutionary and leader of peasants in the mexican revolution. he mobilized landless peasants in south-central mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. he was defeated and assassinated | 5 | |
374529148 | yuan shikai | chinese general and first president of the chinese republic (1912-1916). he stood in the way of the democratic movement led by sun yat-sen | 6 | |
374529149 | yuan | empire created in china and siberia by khubilai khan | 7 | |
374529150 | young ottomans | movement of young intellectuals to institute liberal reforms and build a feeling of national identity in the ottoman empire in the second half of the 19th century | 8 | |
374529151 | yin/yang | in chinese belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world | 9 | |
374529152 | wilbur wright | the first to build and fly an airplane, at kitty hawk, north carolina | 10 | |
374529153 | world trade organization | an international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade | 11 | |
374529154 | world bank | a specialized agency of the united nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. its formal name is the international bank for reconstruction and development | 12 | |
374529155 | women's rights convention | an 1848 gathering of women angered by their exclusion from an international antislavery meeting, they met at seneca falls, new york | 13 | |
374529156 | witch-hunt | the pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft, especially in northern europe in the late 16th and 17th centuries | 14 | |
374529157 | woodrow wilson | president of the US (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the paris peace conference of 1919. he was unable to persuade the US congress to ratify the treaty of versailles or join the league of nations | 15 | |
374529158 | western front | a line of trenches and fortifications in ww1 that stretched without a break from switzerland to the north sea. scene of most of the fighting between germany, and france and britain | 16 |
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