Test 12 Final Exam Flashcards
chosen by God to become the father of the nation of Israel
Abraham
succeeded Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia
Vladimir Putin
Did Ronald Reagan believe that more government control is necessary?
NO
the last great ASsyrian king that collected a library of 100,000 cuneiform tablets
Ashurbanipal
The English author that is perhaps the greatest author of all time
William Shakespeare
the “Father of Modern Missions”
William Carey
oil-rich kingdom that Saddam Hussein ordered an invasion of in 1990
Kuwait
Communist leader who ruled Yugoslavia immediately after WWII
Josip Tito
The blind Green poet credited for creating the epics Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
the last czar of Russia before the Communists took over
Nicholas II
Slobodan Milosevic was responsible for this in Bosnia and Kosovo
ethnic cleansing
the year the Panama Canal turned over to the Panamanians
1999
What does jihad mean?
holy war
Nelson Mandela was the first black president of what country?
South Africa
Who wrote the classic Fifth Symphony?
Beethoven
Renaissance artist who painted the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo da Vinci
the approximate dates for the Middle Ages
A.D. 500-A.D. 1500
the group Osama bin Laden directed in the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001
Al-Qaeda
the country not affected by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Brazil
the American President during Operation Desert Storm
George H. W. Bush
Hugh Capet’s coronation as king is viewed as the beginning of which nation?:
French
the country the United States believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in
Afghanistan
the English king who broke with the Roman church, setting off the English Reformation?
Henry VIII
The year Martin Luther posted the Ninety-five Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation
1517
the country forced to give up land and the ability to protect itself in the Oslo Accords
Israel
led ground forces in the Persian Gulf War
Norman Schwarzkopf
Greek conqueror of Persia and most of the known world
Alexander
great Frankish king crowned “Emperor of the Romans”
Charlemagne
man whose assassination sparked World War I
Francis Ferdinand
conquered the Aztecs
Hernando Cortes
led war elephants across the Alps to invade Italy
Hannibal
leader of North Korea
Kim-Jong II
two countries that signed the Good Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation
Russia and China
In 1997 this country reverted back to the Chinese
Hong Kong
Intifada means what?
uprising
invented the World Wide Web
Tim-Berners- Lee
William the Conqueror invaded this country in 1066
England
Vladimir (Nikolai) Lenin led a Bolshevik revolt and established a Communist state in which country?
Russia
The ____ Protocol requires member nations to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Kyoto
The famous drawing Praying Hands was done by this artist.
Albrecht Durer
the first Roman emperor to persecute Christians
Nero
Nelson Mandela’s disciple
Thabo Mbeki
first president of mexico for the National Action Party
Vincente Fox Quesada
member of the Ba’ath Party
Saddam Hussein
president of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Palestinian Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad
Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert
dictator who relinquished power to his brother
Fidel Castro
falsely promised a reduction of terrorism against Israel
Yassir Arafat
leader of Venezuela
Hugo Chavez
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan assassinated in 2007
Benazir Bhutto
the Egyptian process of preserving dead bodies
mummification
led American troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Tommy Franks
the legal and moral code of Islam
Shari’a
the common name for Avian influenza
bird flu
What did Johann Gutenberg invent c. 1440?
movable-type printing press
the more passive branch of Islam called that followws the Orthodox tradition
Sunni
the hurricane that claimed over 1,300 lives in Mississippi and Louisiana
Katrina
appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the american Revolution
George Washington
the Nazi-planned murder of millions of Jews
holocaust
division of society in India
caste system
Original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
putting man in place of or above God
humanism
Sumerian writing
cuneiform
Egyptian writing
hieroglyphics
the god of Islam
Allah
the Spanish Armada was defeated by this navy in 1588
English
the third nation to send a man into space
China
Biofuel combined with regular gasoline
flex fuel
built the Palace of Versailles
Louis XIV
emphasizes the saving, preserving, and restoring of natural resources
Environmentalism
the religious document by environmentalists containing sixteen principles
Earth Charter
a movement to unite the world through an economic, political, and religious system
globalism
the First Lady who supported a national health care plan
Hillary Clinton
The former states of Yugoslavia signed a program of peace called
Dayton Accords
Know these locations on a map of the world.
China Madagascar South Africa Mexico Argentina Canada Greenland Iceland Egypt New Zealand Russia Japan France India Australia