World History

2. a government controlled by its citizens
7. the bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholic Chruch
9. in Buddhism the release from pain and suffering achieved after enlightenment
12. a thinker who uses logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and moorality
13. a fertile deposit of windblown soil
15. a West African people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern Nigeria
17. a Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five,seven, and five syllables
18. "lightning war"
19. a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially
22. a political leader given absolute power to make laws and command the army for a limited time
23. a member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water

1. a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin
3. 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
4. a Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar)
5. an African people who lived in what is now Nigeria between 500 B.C. and A.D. 200
6. a West African storyteller
8. 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
10. a prime minister in a Muslim kingdom or empire
11. the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side
12. a member of a protestant church governed by elders and founded on the teachings of John Knox
14. a lord's estate in feudal Europe
15. a pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims
16. the policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war
20. the act of moving from one place to settle in another
21. a civilization that flourished on what is now the southern coast of Peru from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 600