World History

2. an African people who lived in what is now Nigeria between 500 B.C. and A.D. 200
4. a Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five,seven, and five syllables
5. a prime minister in a Muslim kingdom or empire
6. a member of a protestant church governed by elders and founded on the teachings of John Knox
8. the bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholic Chruch
9. a form of government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by citizens who have the right to vote
10. a fertile deposit of windblown soil
13. the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side
15. a government controlled by its citizens
17. the policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war
19. a political leader given absolute power to make laws and command the army for a limited time
20. in Hinduism and Buddhism, the totality of the good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believe to determine his or her fate after rebirth
21. a civilization that flourished on what is now the southern coast of Peru from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 600

1. a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin
2. in Buddhism the release from pain and suffering achieved after enlightenment
3. a lord's estate in feudal Europe
4. a West African people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern Nigeria
6. a thinker who uses logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and moorality
7. a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially
11. a West African storyteller
12. the act of moving from one place to settle in another
14. "lightning war"
16. a pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims
18. a member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water
22. a Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar)