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1. Its symbolic end came at the bloodless Battle of Ugra, in which Akhmet withdrew his forces

2. This man brutally put down the French Commune during the Bloody Week

3. This man appointed Nikita Zotov, a member of his 'Jolly Company,' to be overseer of his 'Governing Senate'

4. This organization implemented the first levée en masse

5. This city calleditself the 'Much Serene Republic,' and its annual carnival still takes place in St Mark' s Square'

6. Following this body' s dissolution, some of its members joined the CTSO

7. Peter Fox is a prominent musician in this modern-day country, and a group from this country began a song with 'It' s early morning, the sun comes out/last night was shaking and pretty loud'

8. A predecessor to this state was created in the Union of Krewo

9. It supported a rebellion of lower-class artisans called ciompi

10. This ruler corresponded vitriolically with a former friend, Andrey Kurbsky, who became a Lithuanian turncoat

11. This government adopted the slogan of 'Work, family, fatherland'

12. The earliest paperback books were developed at Aldus Manutius' s Aldine Press in this city

13. During this war, a German unit called the Condor Legion conducted a bombing raid on Guernica

14. Succeeded by Leo Caprivi, this man misrepresented Count Vincent Benedetti in an [*] edited telegram

15. This condition was initially proposed by a Russian delegation of Count Matuszewic and Prince Lieven

16. Francis I shouted 'Show me Adam' s will!' to dispute claims made by these two countries'

17. Its Baixa [' BYE' -sha] district was rebuilt under the direction of the Marquess de Pombal, minister to Joseph I of Braganza'

18. Partly because a ruler of this city married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine Emperor, this city styled itself the' Third Rome' after the fall of Constantinople'

19. This event was caused by stowaway rats carrying the Yersinia pestis bacterium

20. One nation received the majority of the cities of the Decapole through this agreement, and Fabio Chigi, the future Pope Alexander VII, was the Papal legate to it

21. This ruler exiled AN Radishchev, and put Stanislaw Poniatowski on a neighboring throne

22. He ended over 90 years of Magyar raids with that victory at the Battle of Lechfeld

23. After the end of this government, women accused of 'horizontal collaboration' had their heads shaved during public shamings'

24. The Nihil novi was a 1505 act passed by its parliament, the sejm, and the Confederation of Targowica invited a Russian invasion after the adoption of a liberal constitution

25. The priest George Gapon called this ruler a 'soul-murderer' after his troops fired on peaceful petitioners on Bloody Sunday, and this man issued the October Manifesto to convene the first Duma after the 1905 Revolution'