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Global History Snapshots: Key Terms, Events, and Individuals

Explore pivotal moments in history from the Indus River Valley to the Cold War, featuring Hammurabi, Neolithic Revolution, Buddhism, Mali, Nationalism, Propaganda, Genocide, Renaissance, Theocracy, Glasnost, Adolf Hitler, Peter the Great, and more.

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Global History Snapshots: Key Terms, Events, and Individuals

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  1. Location of the earliest civilization in India

  2. Indus River Valley

  3. Lawmaker of ancientBabylonian civilization

  4. Who is Hammurabi

  5. The period of domestication of animals and growing of crops

  6. What is the Neolithic Revolution

  7. Religious terms: Eightfold Path, Four Noble Truths, and Nirvana belong to this religion

  8. What is Buddhism

  9. Kingdom in West Africa, experiencing advances in mathematics, science, medicine and art.

  10. What is Mali

  11. Patriotic Pride and Devotion to one’s country.

  12. What is Nationalism

  13. The spread of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause.

  14. What is Propaganda

  15. The systematic extermination or destruction of an entire people or national group

  16. What is Genocide

  17. Period from about 1350-1600 in which European scholars revived the learning of Ancient Greece and Rome

  18. What is the Renaissance

  19. Form of government in which religious leaders serve as rulers

  20. What is a Theocracy

  21. This is a policy of openness domestically, and towards the west initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbahev

  22. What is Glasnost

  23. This German Nazi nationalist outlined the theory of the “Master Race”

  24. Who is Adolf Hitler

  25. This leader provided Russia with a “Window to the West”

  26. Who is Peter the Great

  27. This famous autocrat built The Palace of Versailles

  28. Who is King Louis the IVX

  29. The ruler of the Byzantine empire (527-565) used this Set of Laws to unite the empire under his control

  30. What is the Justinian Code

  31. Supreme ruler of all Mongols that conquered a vast empire stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe

  32. Who is Genghis Khan

  33. This prison became a symbol of the French Revolution in 1789

  34. What is the Bastille

  35. This was a long slow Revolutionwhich production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines

  36. What is the Industrial Revolution

  37. This revolutionary, a creole priest in Mexico, is famous for “El Grito de Dolores”

  38. Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo

  39. In 1816, this gifted general helped Argentina win freedom from Spain

  40. Who is Jose de San Martin

  41. In November 1917, this Bolshevik leader overthrew the existing government promising “Peace, Land and Bread”

  42. Who is Vladimir Lenin

  43. This war was known as a “War of Words”

  44. What is the Cold War

  45. In 1949, Western powers formed an alliance against Soviet aggression

  46. What is NATO

  47. Led by Lech Walesa, in the 1980’s this trade union pressured the government of Poland for changes that would improve the standard of living.

  48. What is Solidarity

  49. In 1992, this Yugoslav republic was accused of “Ethnic Cleansing ” The worst genocide since the Nazis in which, Orthodox Bosnian Serbs killed or terrorized thousands of Bosniak Muslim civilians.

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