Ancient World & Religions

Definitions Famous Autocrats Revolutions Twentieth Century

since 1945

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Location of the earliest civilization in India

   

Lawmaker of ancient Babylonian civilization

The period of domestication of animals and growing of crops

Religious terms: Eightfold Path, Four Noble Truths, and nirvana

belong to this religion

Kingdom in West Africa experiencing advances in mathematics, science and

medicine and art.

Feeling pride and devotion to one’s country.

Spread of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause.

The systematic extermination or destruction of an entire people or

national group

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

Form of government in which religious leaders serve as rulers

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

Mikhail Gorbahev

This German Nazi nationalist outlined the theory of the

“master race”

This leader provided Russia with a “window” to the west

This famous autocrat built the palace of Versailles

The ruler of the Byzantine empire

(527-565)

used this set of laws to unite the empire under his control

Supreme ruler of all mongols conquered a vast empire that

stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe

This prison became a symbol of the French

revolution in 1789

This was a long slow revolution which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines

This revolutionary, a creole priest in Mexico, is famous for

“El Grito Dolores”

In 1816, this gifted general helped Argentina win

freedom from Spain

In November1917 this Bolshevik leader

overthrew the existing government promising

“peace, land and bread”

This war was known as a

“war of words”

In 1949, Western powers formed an alliance against

Soviet aggression

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

In 1992 this Yugoslav republic was accused of “ethnic cleansing, ” in which Serbs killed or terrorized thousands of Muslim civilians.

The burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and natural gas – by

factories, automobiles, and other sources releases chemical

pollutants into the air.