REGENTS REVIEW
1. period during which people shifted from hunting and gathering to producing food
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2. people who moved from place to place hunting and gathering food
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3. the exchange of ideas, customs, and goods among cultures
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4. Egyptian ruler is called a
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5. early Chinese believed their culture was the center of the Earth, so they called it the
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6. the ruling family in China is called a
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7. according to Chinese tradition their rulers governed
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8. belief in many gods
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9. belief in one god
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10. May 1989 thousands of demonstrators in Beijing were killed or wounded for
demanding more rights and freedoms-this was called the
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11. established a communist dictatorship in Cuba
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12 nations with limited resources and without modern industrial economies were called
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13. nations with modern agriculture and industries, advanced technology, and strong
educational systems were called
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14. currency used in the European Union (EU)
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15. organization whose goal was to control the oil industry by setting production
levels and prices of oil
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16. led the Long March and established communism in China
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17. another name for the Nationalist party in China
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18. leader of the Nationalist party in China who tried to slaughter the communists
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19. once China became communist the Nationalist party fled to this island
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20. Communist China is known as
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21. this Chinese communist leader allowed free market reforms in China but little
political change
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22. this island was returned to China in 1997
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23. led a nationalist movement in India using passive resistance and civil disobedience
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24. India was divided by these two religions
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25. separation of races in South Africa was called
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26. African National Congress leader who was sentenced to life in prison and later
became the first president of a free South Africa
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27. leader of communist North Vietnam
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28. leader of South Vietnam
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29. period during the 1970s in which there was an easing of tensions between the
US and the Soviet Union
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30. restructuring of the government and the economy in the Soviet Union under
Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s
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31. period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and
formed new Christian churches
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32. period in the 1500s and 1600s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional
ideas and relied on observation and experimentation
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33. a period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the
1600s –the word means “rebirth”
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34. period in which production of goods shifted from using hand tools to using powerdriven machines and from human and animal power to steam power
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35. period in the 1700s in which people rejected traditional ideas and supported a
belief in human reason
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