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1
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Muslim Male revolt in what country

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Brazil

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Boundary between them and the British settled at Fort Stanwix, Great Law of Peace

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Iroquois

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Reforms by the Iranian Shah Pahlavi, including the enfranchisement of women and a relationship with the USSR

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White Revolution

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4
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Author of Ten Days that shook the world, about the Russian revolution

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Jack Reed

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5
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Instructions for the Bolsheviks written by Lenin

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April Theses

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6
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Secret police was the DINA, who assassinated Orlando Letelier

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Pinochet

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7
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Country whose leader was investigated in the Rettig Report

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Chile

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8
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Sent Scylax of Caryanda to explore his empire’s eastern territories

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Darius I

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9
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President who passed the Hart-Celler act

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LBJ

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10
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William of Malmesbury wrote an account of it

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Hastings

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11
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Shirley Temple was ambassador to this country and Ghana

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Czechoslovakia

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12
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Loser of the battle of Manila Bay

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Patricio Mantojo

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13
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Joseph Chamberlain wanted to give Zionists this country following World War II (not Israel)

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Uganda

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14
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Battle of Samichon and battle of the Hook were fought during this war

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Korean War

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15
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Kama School taught the use of this weapon

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Tanks

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16
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Battle of Colenso, Winston Churchill covered it as a journalist

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Second Boer War

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17
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Issachar Roberts refused to baptize him

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Hong Xiuqian

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18
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Operation Blue star was on this temple

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Golden Temple of Amritsar

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19
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Lee Teng-hui was the first democratically elected president here

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Taiwan

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20
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Preceded by half brother Henry IV “the impotent”, forces won the battle of Toro against Joanna

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Isabella

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21
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Paul Nakhimov won the battle of Sinop during it

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Crimean war

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22
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Supported the Targowica Confederation of Poland against the Great Sejm government

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Catherine the Great

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23
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Saved Cusco by praying to the Gods that rocks would turn into warriors, built Machu Pichu

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Pachacuti

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24
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Native American Clarence Tinker died at this battle

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MIdway

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25
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Plan by Vincente Guerrero and Emperor Augustine to establish Mexico

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Plan of Iguala

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26
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Married Maria Theresa of Spain

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Louis XIV

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27
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Put down the Pullman Strike as well as the surrender of Geronimo

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Nelson Miles

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28
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Succeeded Bismarck as chancellor and names a strip in Namibia

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Caprivi

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29
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Treaty that established Bulgaria between Russians and Ottomans

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San Stefano

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30
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General called “Granny” “Marble Man” and “King of Spades”

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Robert E Lee

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31
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Oliver Miller and James McFarlane killed at Bower hill during it, “Light Horse” Harry Lee

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Whiskey Rebellion

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32
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Wilcox Rebellions here

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Hawaii

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33
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Split Vietnam into two neutral countries, Ho Chi Minh said “our real enemies are the Americans”

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Maneli Affair

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34
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Won’t the battles of Ilipa and Utica

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Scipio Africanus

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35
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Cornwallis and Tarleton won it in North Carolina prior to Yorktown

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Guilford Courthouse

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36
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Won the battle of Berlin and commanded Operation Polar Star

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Georgy Zhukov

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37
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River between North Korea and CHina

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Yalu River

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38
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Trajan’s wife Plotina chose him as the next emperor

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Hadrian

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39
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Alexander declared “I will not steal my victory” before fighting a guy who would later be killed by Bessus

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Gaugamela

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40
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Company founded by Robert Harley

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South Sea

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41
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Planned the assassination of the Cairo Gang, later killed by Anti-Treaty Forces (who wanted a place to the North)

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Michael Collins

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42
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Wrote “Message to the Black Man in America”, succeded by Warith Dean

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Elijah Muhammad

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43
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Third member of the Second Triumvirate after Mark Anthony and Octavian who was Governor of Gaul

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Lepidus

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44
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Anglo-French alliance at this place between Francis I and Henry VIII

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Cloth of Gold

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45
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Ethnic group who invaded the Kingdom of Dahomey in Southern Nigeria

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Yoruba

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46
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Battle lost by the Umayyad Marwan II that began the Abassids

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Zab

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47
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Treaty that ended the war of Austrian Secession that had Austria cede Silesia to Prussia

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Aix la Chapelle

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48
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Affair in which it was discovered that Willy Brandt’s secretary was a Communist spy

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Guillaume Affair

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49
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Abolished slavery following a conversation with Gaspar Coelho

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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50
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Night of the Pencils took place during this campaign

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Dirty War

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51
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Tughril Beg led these people in taking over the Buyid dynasty

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Seljuk Turks

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52
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Assyrian king who defeated the Urartu and took power after the Bronze age collapse

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Sennacherib

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53
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Case that ruled that slaves arriving in Britain were free

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Somerset case

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54
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Burmese king of the Konbuang dynasty who tried to invade Thailand

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Bowdapaya

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55
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Action supported by Cecil Rhodes in which guerillas tried to take over the Cape Colony, Hercules Robinson

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Jameson raid

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56
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Tariff wrote partly by a polygamist which taxed imported goods during the Great Depression

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff

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57
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Grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights

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Ulrich von Jungingen

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58
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British and French forces lined up on the Nile

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Fashoda crisis

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59
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War that gave Roman citizenship to everyone in Italy

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Social War

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60
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Spy ring involving Hercules Mulligan and Cato created by George Washington

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Culper Ring

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61
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“Custodian of the two holy mosques” who was the father of the “Sudairi Seven”

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Abdulaziz al-Saud

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62
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Lindisfarne gospel written in this country

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Ireland

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63
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Breakfast chat with Richard Nixon was recorded in which he talked disparagingly about Jewish news anchors

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Billy Graham

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64
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Song written about him was the hymn of Solidarity Forever

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John Brown

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65
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Commander of the first all black regiment (Massachusetts)

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Robert Gould Shaw

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66
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T and O versions of these

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Maps

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67
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Minneconjou man refused to give up his rifle here

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Wounded Knee

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68
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Slogan was “Enrich the country, strengthen the military”, led to the Satsuma Rebellion and ultimately followed by the Bakusmatu period

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Meiji Restoration

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69
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Cat and Mouse act passed by this Liberal PM’s government

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HH Asquith

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70
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Fulani Ethnic group in this country

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Nigeria

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71
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Tang emperor who Xuanzhong brought back Buddhism to

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Taizong

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72
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Patron of Cassiodorus and Boethius who killed Odoacer to be King of Italy

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Theodoric

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73
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Treaty that cut off Russian trade with Britain, its violation resulted in the creation of Finland

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Tilsit

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74
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Opposition to the Indian removal act led him to break off with Andrew Jackson, Tocqueville called him an uneducated backwoodsman

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Davy Crockett

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75
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King of the Gupta empire who is the holder of Buddhist scriptures in Journey to the West

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Harsha

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76
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Chancellor who created a new military force following WWII in the Himmerod memorandum, succeeded by Erhard

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Adenauer

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77
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King Susenyos supported Catholicism over their church, Salmonic dynasty

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Ethiopia

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78
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Upton Sinclair lost in 1934 to this governor who put down striking Longshoreman

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Frank Merriam

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79
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Boston anti-busing activist and congresswoman

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Louise Day Hicks

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80
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“Doctrine” of popular sovereignty was created by Stephen Douglas here

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Freeport

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81
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Filipino Nationalist, Doctor, and Poet who was executed by the Spainish

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Jose Rizal

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82
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Polish confederation that opposed Russian influence and King Stanislaus II, lost the battle of Lanckrona

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Bar Confederation

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83
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Worked in a New Orleans CIgar Factory and created the Rurales Police Force, overthrown briefly by Maximilian

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Benito Juarez

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84
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Defeated the Teutonic knights in the “Massacre on the Ice” at the battle of Lake Peipus

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ALexander Nevsky

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85
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Korean dynasty that founded the Jogye Buddhist order and was invaded the the Mongols

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Goryeo

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86
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Boleslaw the Brave and St. Olga ruled this city

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Kiev

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87
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Agreement that ended the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 and tried to end the war in Kashmir

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Tashkent Declaration

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88
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John L. Stevens conspired with Sanford Dole and the Committee of Safety to overthrow her

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Queen Liliolakani

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89
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Held after Leo X released Papal Bull, called for by Charles V

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Diet of Worms

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90
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People who supported voluntary poverty who were massacred at Piedmont

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Waldensians

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91
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Philip Payton have hundreds of homes to black workers here

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Harlem

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92
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Actress who said that the “royal purple is the noblest shroud” during the Nika Riots

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Theodora

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93
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Mamluks defeated the Mongols under Hulagu Khan at this battle in the Levant

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Ayn Jalut

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94
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General Allenby entered Jerusalem on foot to spite this ruler, who also said the English were “mad as march hares”

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Wilhelm II

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95
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Yarubid and al-Busaid dynasty ruled this country governed from Muscat

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Oman

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96
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French General Lazar Hoche tried to aid rebels such as Wolfe Tone in this country

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Ireland

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97
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Roman censor who constructed a namesake road and aqueduct

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Appius Claudius

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98
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People of Peru who preceded the Inca, namesake lines

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Nazca

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99
Q

Chinese wars over women in San Francisco

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Tong Wars

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100
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Uprisings in Spain against Isabella II largely because she was female

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Carlist Wars

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101
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Movement started by Robert Finley and Bushrod Washington

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American Colonization Society

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102
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Egyptian Operation to cross the Suez canal that began the Yom Kippur war

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Operation Badr

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103
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Won the battle of Mohi against Bela IV while trying to attack the Cumans

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Batu Khan

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104
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North African caliphate founded by Ibn Tumart who overthrew the Almoravids, lost at Las Navas de Tolosa

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Almohads

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105
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Document written by Pierre Soule which argued for the annexation of Cuba as a slave state

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Ostend Manifesto

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106
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First President of the Frnehc Republic who ordered McMahon to get rid of the Paris Commune

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Adolphe Thiers

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107
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Korean dynasty ruled by Taejo and Seijong who invaded Ryukyu

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Joseon

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108
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Civilization of the cities of Eshnunana and Nippur who succeded thee Ubaid period and were followed by the Akkadians

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Sumerians

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109
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General under Leopold I who led the Holy League to defeat the Ottomans at the battle of Zenta

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Eugene of Savoy

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110
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Queen was was usurped by Stephen of Blois during the Anarchy

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Matilda

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111
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Leader of the Branch Davidians during the Waco Siege

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David Koresh

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112
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City that was the culmination of the “race to the sea”, as well as the battle of Paschendale

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Ypres

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113
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The Barmakid family advised the dynasty, anarchy of Samarra

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Abbasids

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114
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Santebal secret police force under this government

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Khmer Rouge

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115
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His attempted assassination by Algerian nationalists was basis for the novel “Day of the Jackal”, Empty Chair crisis

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Charles de Gaulle

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116
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Asked Frederick Douglass if God was dead, briefly a Millerite

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Sojurner Truth

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117
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Sun Yat-Sen museum is in this Malaysian state

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Penang

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118
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Began after Herschel Grynszpan killed Ernst von Ramth

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Kristallnacht

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119
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King who was assassinated because he gave Baca Beccarris a medal after massacring protesters in Milan

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Umberto I

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120
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Last emperor of Vietnam who was forced to abdicate by the Viet Minh

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Bao Dai

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121
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Soldiers refused to fight Irishmen after Irish home rule was passed

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Curragh Mutiny

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122
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Finance minister of Louis XIV who taxed the nobility and drafted the COde Noire

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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123
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Song dynasty family members kidnapped by Jurchens

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Jingkang incident

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124
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Treaty that formed a relationship between Italy and Menelik II, which Italy thought meant they could invade Ethiopia. Italians lost at Adwa

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Wuchale

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125
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Simeon I was tsar and prime minister of this country

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Bulgaria

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126
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Radical Humanist who JOhn Calvin burned at the stake

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Michael Servetus

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General who fought a civil war against Sulla and won the Jugurthine war

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Marius

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128
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Jewish Prime Minister of France following World War II, opposed Vichy France

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Leon Blum

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129
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Author of the Tamworth Manifesto whose secretary’s assassin was the namesake of the M’Naghten rules regarding the insanity defense

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Robert Peele

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Empire in Persia ruled by Khosrau and Shapur, Julian the Apostate died fighting them

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Sassanid

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Crisis during the Ming dynasty in which the Oirat captured Emperor Yinzhong

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Tumu Crisis

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Bacurius pushed back against a wagon circle, Valens died in fire fighting Fritgern

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Adrianople

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133
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Mulligan letters doomed his candidacy

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James Blaine

134
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Dictator who was protected by the Securatae police force and wrote the “July Theses”. Highway was his folly

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Ceausescu

135
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Workers in this system were called Zeks

A

Gulag

136
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Anson Burlingame challenged this man to a duel after this man heard a speech about “Harlot Slavery”

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Preston Brooks

137
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Roosevelt’s Secretary of State Elihu Root defended him from charges of corruption

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Boss Tweed

138
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President of the Republic of Sonora, invaded Nicargua

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William Walker

139
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Rebelled against his father Charles VII in the Praguerie, later fought Charles the Bold

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Louis XI (Universal Spider)

140
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War between Bolivia and Paraguay over Oil rich region, Czechoslovakia helped Bolivia but Paraguay won

A

Chaco War

141
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Country governed by Hoxha with “blood feuds”

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ALbania

142
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“adolescent butcher” in his youth, lost the battle of Pharsalus to Julius Caesar, subdued Armenia

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Pompey

143
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Attempted Communist coup during the SUkarno regime

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30 September movement, or Gustapu

144
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Last emperor was the child Zhao Bing, who died following the battle of Yamen

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Song dynasty

145
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Military alliance of Lutheran princes allied against CHarles V, lost the battle of Muhlberg

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Schkamaldic leauge

146
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Delivered the Rivers of Blood speech denouncing immigration

A

Enoch Powell

147
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Empire that succeeded the Mongols but lost the third battle of Panipat to the Durrani. Founded by Shivaji

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Maratha

148
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President who normalized Czechoslovakia following the Prague Spring, reversed predecessor Dubcek’s reforms

A

Gustav Husak

149
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Empire succeeded by Mali, capital at Koumbi Saleh

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Ghana

150
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First major Protestant victory, Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Count Tilly in Saxony

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Brietenfeld

151
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“White Death” sniper was during this war, where the battle of Suomussalmi was fought

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Winter War

152
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War that saw one group create that Twelve articles, they lost the battle of Frankenhausen under Thomas Muntzer

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German Peasants revolt

153
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Battle during King Philip’s war in Rhode Island in which Pequots and New Englanders defeated Narragansetts

A

Great Swamp Fight

154
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Orange riots between people from this country, compromised most of the Molly Maguires

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Irish

155
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Dynasty founded by King Wu following the battle of Muye, followed by Spring and Autumn period

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Zhou dynasty

156
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Captured by Leopold V of Austria while returning from THird Crusade

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RIchard the Lionheart

157
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Advised by Abraham Theben (pro-jews) and Gottfried von Sweiten (vampires)

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Maria Theresa

158
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Cardinal de Rohan tried to buy something for the queen, conceived by the COuntes de la Motte

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Affair of the Diamond Necklace

159
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Invaded Korea after a request by Queen Myeongsong to put down the Donghak rebellion, made Pu Yi abdicate and himself became emperor

A

Yuan Shikai

160
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Battle lost by Erwin Rommel in Egypt, Bernard Montgomery organized Operation Supercharge

A

El Alamein

161
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Woman who helped this government had their head shaves afterward, “Work, family, fatherland.”

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Vichy France

162
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Last of the “Rightly Guided Caliphs”, wielded the sword Zulfiqar and was the nephew of Muhammad

A

Ali

163
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Pope Sixtus IV tried to kill Lorenzo de Medici

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Pazzi conspiracy

164
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McGrain v. Daugherty grew out of it, investigation was headed by Thomas Walsh

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Teapot Dome

165
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Began after the fall of Edessa, Wendish crusade against Slavs also took place during it

A

Second Crusade

166
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Gavin Menzies said they discovered the world, took power following the Red Turban Rebellion (Defeated Yuan at Lake Poyang)

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Ming Dynasty

167
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Cornelius Vanderbilt worked for the ferry company in this case, founded the Commerce Clause

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Gibbons v. Ogden

168
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Ethnic group that killed cows to drive the British out and prevent “lung disease”

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Xhosa

169
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Invasion by Pakistan of Bangladesh during the famine

A

Operation Searchlight

170
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Supporters of him were called the Frateschi, who were mad after the first trial by fire in 400 years was cancelled. Excommunicated by Alexander VI

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Savanorola

171
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Archbishop who forced the book of common prayer on the Scots

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William Laud

172
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Declared “I have no patriotism. I cannot have any love for this country” in his “Fifth of July” speech.

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Frederick Douglass

173
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Quasi-independent states that the National party created for the African population

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Bantustans

174
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Persian Mardonius died at this battle on Mount Cithaeron against Pausanius

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Plataea

175
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“Jerusalem of the North”, Chain of Freedom during Singing revolution between it and Talinn

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Vilnius

176
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First wife of Muhammad and convert to Islam

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Khadijah

177
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Pope Gregory VII absolved this King following his walk to Canossa

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Henry IV

178
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Wrote a history of the Jugurthine War

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Sallust

179
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DINA under him killed Orlando Letelier in a car bombing

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Pinochet

180
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Tamil empire in SOuth India and Sri Lanka governed by Rajendra

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Chola

181
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Delano grape strike was started by these people, Larry Itliong

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Filipinos

182
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Thai kingdom that had Elephant Duels, brought down with war with the Konbuang dynasty, Narai appointed a Greek merchant as ambassador

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Ayutthaya

183
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Group that assassinated Tsar Alexander III, split from land and Liberty society

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Peoples Will

184
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Street Thug Shaban the Brainless was bribed to overthrow Mohamad Mossadegh in this operation

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Operation Ajax

185
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Daughter of Isabella I and mother of Charles V who the COmneros rebellion tried to put back on the Spanish throne

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Joanna the Mad

186
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Won the battles of Maipu and Chacobuco, met Bolivar at Guyaquil conference

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Jose de San Martin

187
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Sri Lankan kingdom whose fall led to the Uva Rebellion

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Kandy

188
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Hungarian dictator who took power following the Soviet deposition of Imre Nagy’s government

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Janos Kadar

189
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Developed “Morton’s Fork” tax policy, put down Perkin Warbeck

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Henry VII

190
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Queen of Palmyra who revolted against Aurelian

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Zenobia

191
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Casimir III and Miezko were members of this Polish dynasty

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Piast

192
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Orban constructed canons for him, installed Radu the Hansome in place of Vlad the Impaler

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Mehmed II

193
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Married son Arthur off to Catherine of Aragon, won the battle of Bosworth field

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Henry VII

194
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Claimed Brazil for the Portugese king Manuel I

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Pedro Cabral

195
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Constructed Akosombo Dam, founded Convention Peoples Party

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Kwame Nkrumah

196
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First President of South Korea, forced out by the April revelution

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Syngman Rhee

197
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Maurice Papon tortured FLN prisoners in this country, who were led by Ahmad Ben Bella, battle if Phillipeville

A

Algeria

198
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Defeat of Mitsunari which led to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate

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Sekigahara

199
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Acts that gave money for the buying of land to establish universities, introduced by Vermont Senator

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Morrill Land Grant Act

200
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Emperor who created the “Law of Fratricide”, able to take Albania following the death of Skanderberg

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Mehmed II

201
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Genoan Doge who won the battle of Preveza against the Ottoman Hayreddin Barbarossa

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Andrea Doria

202
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Agreement regarding the changing of Macedonia’s name

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Prespa agreement

203
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Dynasty that saw a rivalry between Wang Anshi and the conservative Sima Guang

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Song dynasty

204
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“African Che Guevara” who was dictator of Burkina Faso

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Thomas Sankara

205
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“Father of the American Cavalry” who died at the battle of Savannah, also leader of the bar confederation

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Casimir Pulaski

206
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Taoist revolt against the Han dynasty, “way of the supreme peace”

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Yellow Turban

207
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Red army general who couldn’t invade Berlin because of his Polish ancestry, planned out Operation Bagration

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Konstantin Rokossovsky

208
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Prehistoric period of Japanese history

A

Jomon

209
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Treaty that ended the War of the League of Augsburg, which was everyone against Louis XIV’s France

A

Ryswick

210
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Hephtatlites (White Huns) invaded this kingdom, founded by Ardashir, Valerian was forced to drink gold by Shapur

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Sassanid

211
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Banker who tried to replace Elizabeth I with Mary queen of Scots

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Ridolfi

212
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First President of Tanzania, drafted the Arusha Declaration stressing relocation to ujamaa villages, forced Idi Amin out of Uganda

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Julius Nyerere

213
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Close advisers of FDR, who included Rexford Tugwell and Harold Ickes

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Brain Trust

214
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Won the battle of Didgori against the Seljuk Turks, Orthodox King of Georga

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David IV (the builder)

215
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Hindu Kingdom of Southern Vietnam, succumbed to Dai Viet attacks

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Champa

216
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Dynasty founded by Wang Mang who usurped the Han dynasty, Red eyebrows rebellion

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Xin Dynasty

217
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Woman who photographed Boer WAr concentration camps, which led to the Fawcett Commission

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EMily Hobshouse

218
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Commited the Asiatic Vespers (not allowed to speak Latin), apparently immune to poison, lost the battle of Charonea

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Mithridates

219
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Northwestern Spainish Celtic language

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Galician

220
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Met Richard II at Smithfield, killed by William Walworth

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Wat Tyler

221
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Namesake of acts against obscene materials, “Society for the Suppression of Vice”

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Anthony Comstock

222
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Resigned as leader of Conservatives following Carleton CLub, negotiated Locarno Pact

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Austen CHamberlain

223
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1890s war between Brazil and the state of Bahia

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Canudos

224
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Mass murders caried out by Franco regime Blueshirts,

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White Terror

225
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Founded the short lived Yan dynasty, fought against te Tang emperor Xuanshong

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An Lushan

226
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Succeeded Constantius II, fought against Chnodomar and other tribes, died at the battle of Samarra fighting the Sassanids

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Julian the Apostate

227
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Father of Louis the Spider, employed Joan of Arc, won 100 years war

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Charles VII

228
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Hugeonaut admiral whose attempted assasination led to the St. Bartholomews day massacre

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Gaspard de Coligny

229
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UnionAdmiral who won the battle of Mobile bay

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David Farragut

230
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Treaty of Rastatt signed during it, battles of Malpaquet and Malega

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Spanish Succesion

231
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Viachelsev Plev assasinated, Russians lose at Port Arthur. Treaty of Portsmouth

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Russo-Japanese War

232
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German general who helped Americans during RW, wrote “blue book”

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Von Steuben

233
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Illegitimate son of Charles V who won the battle of Lepanto

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John of Austria

234
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Pope who saved Rome from Atilla the Hun and convened the council of Chalcedon

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Leo I

235
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Battle won by Lord Kitchener against the Mahdi’s forces in Sudan

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Omburman

236
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Signed the “Black Decree”, husband of Carlota

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Maximilian

237
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Revolt in Namibua against Germans

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Herero Revolt

238
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Michael Vii Komnenos was declared emperor by Doukas following it, fought near Lake Van

A

Manzikert

239
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Kingdom in Western Afganistan that rebelled against the Seleucids, ruled by Diodotus

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Bactria

240
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Mexican president who nationalized the oil industry , ended the “maximoto” period

A

Lazaro Cardenas

241
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Ketts rebellion was because if this policy, “levelers and diggers”

A

Enclosure

242
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Advised by Bethune and Sully, assasinated by Francois Ravaillac for the edict of Nantes

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Henry IV

243
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League established by pope Alexander Iii to fight fredrick Barbarossa

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Lombard League

244
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Emperor who won the Child’s war, won the Battle of Samugarh against his brother Dara

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Aurangzeb

245
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Tried to get Nazi Germany to help with Indian independence, established Indian Legion and killed in Taiwanese plane crash

A

Subash Chandra Bose

246
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Daughter of William X who dressed as an Amazon during the 2nd crusade, married both Louis VII and Henry II

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

247
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Won the battle of Tong pass, emperor of Wei

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Cao Cao

248
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Died of a plague along with sons Paralus and

Xanthippus, husband of Aspasia

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Pericles

249
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Family who fought against Louis XII of France but encouraged Charles VIII to invade, Ludovico commissioned the last supper

A

Sforza

250
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Group led by James Stuart and his son Bonnie Prince Charlie who lost to Hanover at the battle of Culloden

A

Jacobites

251
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Communist Peruvian Guerilla group that Fujimori got rid of

A

Shining Path

252
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Robert D’Aubussion ordered the assasination of Socialist Priest Oscar Romero in this country, civil war ended by the Chalputec accords

A

El Salvador

253
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Ferdinand Foch and Douglas Haig led the British at this battle, mine was filmed exploding at Hawthorne Ridge

A

Somme

254
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Conquered the Lydians under Croesus at the battle of Lydia, probably killed by the Queen Tomyris

A

Cyrus the Great

255
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Began the Jury system in his Wantage code, killed all the English Danes on St. Brice’s Day

A

Aethelred the Unready

256
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Patron of Diderot who hosted the largest salon

A

Geoffrin

257
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Trial in which Clarence Darrow defended white men who had killed boxer Joseph Kahahawai

A

Massie Affair

258
Q

El Cid died fighting them, defeated Castile and Aragon at the battle of Sagrajas

A

Almoravids

259
Q

Established by Dragutin Dimitrijević (or Apis), killed the Serbian royal family in the May coup

A

Black Hand

260
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Battle in which Napoleon occupied Moscow, Raevsky Redoubt

A

Borodino

261
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Father of Vegetarianism, namesake cracker

A

Sylvester Graham

262
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The Derg regime under Mengistu Haile invaded this country in Operation Fenkil

A

Eritrea

263
Q

Conservative who succeded Anthony Eden, gave the “winds of change” speech criticizing Apartheid, resigned following Profumo affair

A

Harold Macmillan

264
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Emperor who appointed Trajan as successor, first of the Five Good emperors

A

Nerva

265
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Forerunner to NAACP that was founded by Trotter and Du Bois

A

Niagara

266
Q

Succeeded by Andropov, shown kissing Erich Honecker in My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love, served alongside Kosygin

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Leonid Brezhenv

267
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Walter F. White investigated it, began in Phillips County, Arkansas, worst ever race riot

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Elaine Massacre

268
Q

“John Day” letter records his first voyage, financed by Henry VII

A

John Cabot

269
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Daughter of James II and sister of Mary who was aided by Sarah Churchill

A

Anne

270
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Hungarian dynasty that included St. Stephen and Bela I

A

Arpad

271
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Captured Richmond in the Mud March, 1st president of NRA

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Ambrose Burnside

272
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Polish National hero who fought off the Soviets at the battle of Warsaw, launched the May Coup and the Sanitation movemement

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Józef Piłsudski

273
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John XII crowned Otto I HRE after it, caused Magyars to settle in Hungary

A

Lechfeld

274
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Allied with Eugene of Savoy to win the battle of Blenheim, earlier helped James II defeat the Monmouth Rebellion

A

Duke of Marlborough

275
Q

Author of War is a Racket who exposed the business plot

A

Smedley Butler

276
Q

Former ally of Oda Nobunaga who won the battle of Yamazaki and launched the Imjin war against Korea

A

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

277
Q

Launched the Wuxu coup to end Guangxu’s Hundred Days reform, supported Prince Gong in the Self Strengethening movement

A

Cixi

278
Q

Converted the Rus to Christianity, married Basil the Bulgar Slayer’s sister Anna

A

Vladamir

279
Q

Rebels fighting Jurgen Stroop died in the Mila 18 bunker in this city, Operation Tempest

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Warsaw

280
Q

First modern political campaign, Gladstone talked of the “Bulgarian Horrors”

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Midlothian campaign

281
Q

Silkworker Canut revolts during his reign, became King following the July revolution, Les Miserables’s June Days uprising

A

Louis-Phillipe

282
Q

Honorius moved the WEstern Roman capital from Milan to this city

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Ravenna

283
Q

Facist rulers of Croatia who were opposed by Tito

A

Ustase

284
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Abbbasid caliph who was killed by being rolled up in a carpet

A

al-Mustasm

285
Q

Political machine founded by Martin Van Buren that split over slavery

A

Albany Regency

286
Q

Time as Prime Minister ended at the Carlton club meeting after he mishandled the Chanak crisis with Turkey

A

David Lloyd George

287
Q

Won the battle of Asculum, died after being hit in the head with a roof tile

A

Pyrrhus of Epirus

288
Q

Babur defeated this dynasty’s leader Rana Sanga at the battles of Khanwa and 1st Panipat

A

Lodi

289
Q

Us acquired German scientific data in this operation, Werner Van Braun

A

Operation Paperclip

290
Q

Father of Bindusara who was advised by Chanakya

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Chandragupta

291
Q

Followed a speech delivered by Henry Hunt, The Observer named it after a Napoleonic battle

A

Peterloo Massacre

292
Q

Preceded Langton Cheves as secretary of state, stopped supporting War of 1812

A

Henry Clay

293
Q

Southwestern part of the Mongol empire established by Hulagu, present day Iran

A

Ilkhanate

294
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Won the battle of Kleidon, founded the Varangian guard

A

Basil II

295
Q

Lost the battle of Celaya to Obregon, John Pershing ran after him

A

Pancho Villa

296
Q

Succeeded Sherman as leader of the Ohio army, battle of Perryville against Bragg

A

Don Carlos Buell

297
Q

Succeeded by Eric of Pomerania, created Kalmar Union, rival of Albert of Mecklenberg

A

Margaret I

298
Q

Led by Manga Colorado and Coshise during the civil war, Bascom massacre

A

Apache

299
Q

Critisized for response to Mississippi river flood, granted citizenship to Native Americans in Snyder Act

A

Coolidge

300
Q

Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of state under Taft who encouraged bankers to invest in foreign countries

A

Philander Knox

301
Q

Revolt of Florentine woolworkers and artisans

A

Chiompi

302
Q

Author of “A History of the Kings of Britain”

A

Geoffrey of Monmouth

303
Q

Conflict between Sukarno’s Indonesia and Malaysia

A

Konfrontasi

304
Q

Rebellion to achieve Universal White Male suffrage in Rhode Island, King elected governor

A

Dorr’s rebellion

305
Q

Aviator and governor of Libya who opposed Italy’s alliance with Hitler

A

Italo Balbo

306
Q

Roman historian who wrote Germania and the Agricola

A

Tacitus

307
Q

Journalist who broke the Mai Lai massacre

A

Seymour Hersh

308
Q

Led by Prince Sabhaddin and Ahmed Riza during Tripolitan war, Sutan Abdülhamid II reestablished the constitution following their revolution

A

Young Turks

309
Q

Defeated the Gutian hill people, father of Sennacherib

A

Sargon

310
Q

Ruled by Askia Muhammad, Muhammad Ture, and Sonni Ali, lost to Morrocan Sodi sultanate at Tondibi

A

Songhai

311
Q

Became a catholic following the Gorham judgement, ended a dock strike and featured in “eminent Victorians”

A

Cardinal Manning

312
Q

Somalians supported by US invade Derg Ethiopia

A

Ogaden War

313
Q

Son of Emma of Normandy and Aethelred who promised Britain to WIlliam I

A

Edward the Confessor

314
Q

Battle in which Prussians tried to invade France during the War of the First Coalition, Charles Demouriez

A

Battle of Valmy

315
Q

President of Zaire who deposed Lumumba and promoted the “rumble in the jungle”

A

Mobutu Sese Seko

316
Q

Leader of Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs during Spanish Succession

A

Rákóczi

317
Q

Ruler who converted Bulgaria to Christianity, gave Cyril and Methodius refuge

A

Boris I

318
Q

Trial held in a bunker which convicted members of the Sicilian mafia

A

Maxi Trial

319
Q

Adviser to Louis XIV who was appointed by Louis’s mother Anne of Austria, ended Le Fronde at the peace of Rueil

A

Cardninal Mazarin

320
Q

Author of Capitalism and Slavery who founded Trinidad and Tobago

A

Eric Williams

321
Q

Enemy of Hugh Despenser and Piers Gaveston who launched an invasion of England, lover of Robert Mortimer

A

Isabella of France

322
Q

“The Driver” was set during it, Depression in Denver

A

Panic of 1893

323
Q

Son of Cyrus II who hurled cats fighting the Egyptians at the battle of Pelusium

A

Cambyeses II

324
Q

Capitol of Pontus, Diogenes

A

Sinope

325
Q

Coined the name “plumed knight” for James Blaine, “the great agnostic”

A

Robert Ingersoll

326
Q

Swiss confederacy during the time of the thirty years war in which authorities tried to erase any traces of the peasants revolt

A

Ancien Regime

327
Q

Party that warred with the Blanco’s under Fructuoso Rivera and was later led by “Colonel Trunk” Alfredo Stroessner

A

Colorado

328
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Unionized the Catholic and Orthodox churches in the council of Lyon

A

Michael V Paleogolous

329
Q

James Barron was court-martialed because of it, Stephen Decatur was killed

A

Chesapeke-Leopard Affair

330
Q

Sisters who called themselves “the butterflies” and opposed the Trujillo regime

A

Mirabal

331
Q

General and later emperor who invaded the Sassanid capital Ctesiphon under Diocletian

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Galerius

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