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1. Many European countries gave up their colonial holdings around the world in the mid-1900s in a process called what?

2. What invention allowed for the spread of news and lead to an increase in literacy?

3. The Russian Revolution led to the creation of an interim government led by who?

4. Who was the French political philosopher and writer whose major work, The Spirit of Law, was a major contribution to political theory? He argued for separation of powers in the government.

5. Who ordered the assassination of Leon Trotsky?

6. Which group of people ended up destroying the kingdom of Israel in 721 BCE?

7. What is nationalism?

8. Who was the king of the Franks and the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?

9. Name the intellectual movement in Europe initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics that by the seventeenth century laid the groundwork for modern science.

10. What is the term that encompasses the culture, ideas, and pattern of life of Classical Greece?

11. What was the loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor that lasted from 962 to 1805?

12. Who wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which were widely regarded as Western civilization's first two masterworks of literature?

13. Who was the dominant land-owning class in Celtic society?

14. What is the social class that includes the upper levels of clerical workers, supervisors, managers, and self-employed workers such as business people, farmers, and small shopkeepers?

15. What was the purpose of the Council of Vienna?

16. What made the Greek gods different from other civilizations' gods?

17. Under whose leadership did the Macedonians conquer the mighty Persian Empire and move eastwards toward the Indus River, creating the largest empire of the time?

18. This was a person holding a fief, who owed allegiance and service to a feudal lord.

19. During this time period, Greece was not considered a country, but instead a collection of what?

20. The French Revolution was initially against which king?

21. The Roman government was organized as a representative republic and made up of which two distinct groups?

22. Who was the man that naiiled a list of 95 theses on a Church door in 1517? He is recognized as starting the Protestant Reformation.

23. What is the Calvinist doctrine that God has chosen those whom he intends to save?

24. What is the body of modern churches, including Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the Church of the Byzantine Empire?

25. Name the empire that extended from western Iran to Syria-Palestine between the tenth and seventh centuries BCE.

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