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The Maya based their calendar on careful observations of what?
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The planets, the sun and the moon.
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Conquered provinces resented Aztec rule b/c the Aztecs?
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used conquered people for human sacrifice.
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The potlatch ceremony was used by the peoples of the Northwest as a way to
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Display personal wealth.
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The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as?
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The Codex.
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The purpose of the Iroquois League was to?
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Promote joint defense and coop among tribes.
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What was the Renaissance a rebirth of?
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Art and learning.
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The Inca expanded quickly under the leadership of who?
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Patchacuti.
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Who declared himself the head of the English church?
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Henry VIII.
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What was the first full-sized book Gutenberg printed?
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The Bible.
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In what way did Leonardo DiVinci represent the Renaissance man?
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Painter, sculptor, inventor and scientist.
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Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th Century sailing innovations?
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Portugal.
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What type of policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?
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Closed country policy.
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What was one of John Calvin's major teachings?
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Predestination.
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During the 1500s what was China's official trade policy?
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Only trade within China.
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Who captained the 1st European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope?
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Bartholomew Diez
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Which European country was the 1st to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
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Spain
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Who conquered the Axtec empire?
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Hernando Cortez
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What were some of Phillip II's accomplishments as king of Spain?
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He annexed Portugal and made Spain powerful.
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What prompted a way of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries?
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New wealth from the Americas and growth in overseas trade.
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What did the encomienda system provide for New Spain?
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A cheap labor source.
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the heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by?
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Nicolas Copernicus
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Franicis Bacon helped to develop?
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The scientific method.
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What king became France's most powerful ruler and boasted \"I am the state\"?
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Louis XIV
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The idea of a direct democracy is explained in?
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Social Contract
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Isaac Newton explained the?
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Law of universal gravitation.
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Which document stated that \"men are born and remain free and equal in rights\"?
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Declaration of the rising of men.
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What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
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A mob stormed a prison looking for gun powder.
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The Declaration of Independence was written by?
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Thomas Jefferson
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The Bill of Rights was influenced by?
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All of the above.
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How did Admiral Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar?
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He divided the French fleet and attacked small groups of ships.
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What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?
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All of the above.
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Jose de San Martin was a military officer who?
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Liberated parts of Spanish speakings on the Americas.
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Which of the following was an important goal of the Congress of Vienna?
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Established a balance of power in Europe.
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Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?
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Prince Klemens von Metternich
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The independence movement in Latin America was spearheaded by?
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The Creoles.
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Mary Shelly wrote?
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A nearly Gothic horror story about a monster created from corpses.
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The independence movement in Mexico was lead, in part, by?
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Padre Miguel Hidalgo.
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One of romanticism's 1st composers was?
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Nationalism was a force that?
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All of the above.
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What did Britain do in order to keep industrial secrets from the U.S?
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Forbade engineers, merchants and tool makers from leaving the country.
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What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in 19th century Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe?
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Industrialization.
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What was the Industrial Revolution?
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Increased output of machine trade goods that began in England.
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What was a result of the agricultural revolution?
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All of the above.
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What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution?
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Land, labor and capital.
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What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms?
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Unions.
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What is the laissez-faire policy?
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Policy that lets owners of industries get working conditions w/o government interference.
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Who was the American inventor and industrialist who made factory production more efficient by introducing the assembly line?
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Henry Ford.
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Who were the Zionists?
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Jews who worked for homeland in Palestine.
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How was most of the territory west of Texas obtained by the U.S.?
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Mexican American workers.
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What was Captain Alfred Dreyfus accused of in the Dreyfus Affair?
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Selling military secrets.
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Why did Great Britain establish a penal colony in Australia?
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To relieve overcrowding conditions in England.
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What did it mean to be a dominion?
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It meant that a country was domestically self governed, but part of Britain.
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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Declaration of all slaves.
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What concept is the theory of evolution based on?
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National selection.
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To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the Great Famine?
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U.S.
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The overthrown of ___________________ the last Monarch of Hawaii,, was accomplished in the late 1800s by a group of American sugar planters?
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Queen Liliuokalani
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In 1907, _______ lost a long fight to maintain its independence when Britain and Russia took over the country and divided it into spheres of influence?
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Persia
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___________ was the leader of the Filipino nationalists who claimed that the U.S. had promised immediate independence of the Philippine Islands after the end of the Spanish-American War?
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Emilio Aquinaldo
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The main cause of the _________________ was Russia's desire to gain land on the Black Sea from the Ottoman Empire?
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Compan War (maybe Balkan War)
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What did the war become once the participating countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?
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Total war.
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Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?
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Kaiser Wilhelm
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Why were Germany and Austria-Hungary known as Central Powers?
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B/c of their location.
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What action on November 11, 1918 brought World War I to an end?
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An armistice war signed
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What were the 14 Points?
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A plan for the post war world.
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Which nation's actions caused the U.S. to fight in World War I?
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Germany.
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Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles?
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Germany.
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What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping any army prepared for war?
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Militarism.
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What region was referred to as the \"powder keg\" of Europe?
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Balton Peninsula
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What statement summarized the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a 2-front war?
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\"Attack France 1st, then Russia\"
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Who did China's peasants align themselves within the 1920s?
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Communists.
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What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th century Russia?
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Violently persecute Jews.
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Who were the Bolsheviks?
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Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries.
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What is the totalitarian state?
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A state in which the government controls everything.
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What were soviets under Russian's provisional government?
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Local councils.
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Who seized power from Persia's shah and changed the name of his country to Iran?
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
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What did Sun Yixian's Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?
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The overthrowing of the last emperor.
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What was the purpose of the Soviet state's Five-year Plans?
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Economic development.
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Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March?
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Mohandos Gandhi
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Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton's comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity?
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Albert Einstein.
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Which group was known for taking a 6000 mile journey known as the \"Long March\"?
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Chinese communists.
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II Duce was the title of what leader?
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Benito Mussolini
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What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
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The stock market crash of 1929.
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What was one part of Roosevelt's New Deal program to fight the Depression?
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Large public works projects.
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What were Franze Kafka, James Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald all known for being?
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Novelists.
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After World War I, most European nations had what type of government?
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Democratic.
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What term was used to identify the alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan?
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Axis power.
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What was the goal of U.S. isolations after World War I?
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The political ties to their countries.
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Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?
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Nazi.
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What was true of Germany, Italy and Japan during the early 1930s?
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All 3 successfully invaded other nations.
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This Shi'a warrior led the Safavids to conquer what is now Iran?
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is ma'il
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Who encouraged religious tolerance in the Mughal Empire and presided over a great cultural and artistic age?
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Akbar
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This central Asian conqueror interrupted the growth of the Ottoman Empire?
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Timur the Lame.
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Who built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal?
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Shah Jahan
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Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?
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An island in the Caribbean seas.
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What was the main economic activity in New France?
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Far trade
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Who were the 1st Europeans to arrive on Japanese soil?
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Ship wrecked Portuguese.
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Why was the caravel an important development in navigation?
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It was able to sail against the wind.
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Korea was a vassal state of which country during the 1700s?
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China.
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What type of poetry presents images rather than expresses an idea?
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Haiku
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What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s?
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Funding colonies in the Americas.
