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AP World History
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1. Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.
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2. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
1433 CE
Delhi
Guomindang
All-India Muslim League
3. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Fresco
Vasco da Gama
Balfour Declaration
Battle of Midway
4. Italian political party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Holocaust
Cultural Revolution
Fascist Party
Ibn Battuta
5. President of Argentina (1946-1955 - 1973-1974). As a military officer - he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron - he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry - became very popular among the urban p
Nonaligned
Marie Curie
Minoan
Juan Peron
6. The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples. They provided education - mediated disputes between kinship groups - and were suppressed by the Romans as potential resistance.
Scholasticism
Sanskrit
Philip II
Druids
7. Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.). He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.
Ziggurat
Mongols
1815
Darius I
8. Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Middle Kingdom by REUNITING Upper and Lower Egypt in 2134 BCE.
Weimar Republic
Siberia
Mentuhotep I
Abbasid Dynasty
9. The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C.E. (p. 29)
Protestant Reformation
Twelve Tables
Habsburgs
Babylon
10. Last imam in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali - whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873 - he is expected to return as an apocolyptic messiah at the end of time.
The Mahdi
Gulag
1871
Empress Dowager Cixi
11. Extensive Mesoamerican culture that made great advances in astronomy in areas such as their famous calendar
Zoroastrianism
Aqueduct
Maya
Industrial Revolution
12. Shah of Iran (r. 1587-1629). The most illustrious ruler of the Safavid Empire - he moved the imperial capital to Isfahan in 1598 - where he erected many palaces - mosques - and public buildings. (p. 533)
Goths
Labor union
Paterfamilias
Shah Abbas I
13. The only woman to rule China in her own name - expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.
Persia
Empress Wu
Gunpowder
Paleolithic
14. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Maya
1885
Serbia
Nuremberg Trials
15. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1917
Warsaw Pact
1987
732 CE
16. Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
221 BCE
Korean War
Mali
Sumer
17. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
Muscovy
Ulama
Babylonian Empire
King Leopold II King of Belgium
18. Invented the condenser and other improvements that made the steam engine a practical source of power for industry and transportation. The watt - an electrical measurement - is named after him.
James Watt
Cortes
Indian National Congress
King Leopold II King of Belgium
19. City - now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe) - whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450 - when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Byzantine Empire
Monophysites
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Great Zimbabwe
20. First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top - followed by farmers - artisans - and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals.
1885
Liu Bang
Rigveda
Holy Roman Empire
21. Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Montezuma II
Deng Xiaoping
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Suez Canal
22. Trade triangle between US - Britain - and Africa. Ships would take valued goods to Britain from America - get money - sail down to Africa - buy slaves - and take them back to America
Fidel Castro
Abbasid Caliphate
1941
The Golden Triangle
23. A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces - they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Tennis Court Oath
Ibn Battuta
Sasanid Empire
Hittites
24. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Mass deportation
Oracle Bones
Huns
Long March
25. Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws - inscribed on a black stone pillar - illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
323 BCE
Hammurabi
1956
Kievan Russia
26. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Nubians
Leonardo da Vinci
Ulama
Agricultural Revolution
27. Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran.
Sudetenland
NATO
Silk Road
Karl Marx
28. Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations.
Timur
1804
Serf
Mita
29. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
Aristotle
Aborigine
Tanakh
1689
30. Date: Stock Market Crash
1066 CE
Persian Wars
1929
Separate Spheres
31. Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935) - joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936) - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.
Cultural imperialism
1258 CE
Benito Mussolini
Ayatollah Khomeini
32. Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.
Keiretsu
Hoplite
Gunpowder
Harappa
33. The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age
Yellow River
Sun Yat-sen
Rama
Stone Age
34. Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages - often as herders - mercenaries - or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Cossaks
Mulatto
Asante
Repartimiento
35. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
1945
Horse collar
Twelve Tables
Berlin Conference
36. Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Cixi
Vasco da Gama
Napoleon Bonaparte
Comfort girls
37. A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
1600
Civilian Conservation Corps
Manumission
Bolsheviks
38. Soviet leader who was after Khrushchev
Industrial Revolution
1689
Leonid Brezhnev
Indulgence
39. A device for rapid - long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.
Shamanism
Telegraph
Malay
Civilian Conservation Corps
40. 1st unified imperial Chinese dynasty
Alexandria
Macartney Mission
Macedonia
Qin
41. A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
King Charles I
Guild
Sumer
Hydrogen bomb
42. An ancient Anatolian group whose empire at largest extent consisted of most of the Middle East. Some of the first two-wheeled chariots and iron.
Philip II
Hittites
Realpolitik
Battle of Midway
43. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian - Babylonian and Assyrian empires - In the Iron Age - it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Baby
Atlantic System
Mesopotamia
Goths
1325 CE
44. Conflict between Athens and Sparta
Mao Zedong
Vladimir Lenin
Peloponnesian War
Leonardo da Vinci
45. Chinese School of Thought that believes the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it - avoid futile struggles - and deviate as little as possible from 'the way' or 'path' of nature.
cuneiform
Great Circuit
Daoism
1815
46. A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Swahili
Mandate of Heaven
Vladimir Lenin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
47. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Napoleon
Mahabharata
Macedonia
48. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
hadith
1910
Copernicus
Parthians
49. Moroccan Muslim scholar - the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Josiah Wedgwood
1914-1918
Centuries
Ibn Battuta
50. English industrialist whose pottery works were the first to produce fine-quality pottery by industrial methods.
Josiah Wedgwood
Tribute system
Cossaks
Gunpowder