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AP World History
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1. Assyrian resurgence that initiated a series of conquests until a combined attack by Medes and Babylon defeated them
Augustus
4th century CE
Neo-Assyrians
Sandinistas
2. Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church - which included the sale of indulgences
Yurt
95 Theses
Albert Einstein
Concordat
3. Policy that aims to secure peace by preventing dominance of any particular state or group of states
Liu Bang
Balance of power
Yellow River
Sanskrit
4. The process by which different ethnic groups lose their distinctive cultural identity through contact with the dominant culture of a society - and gradually become absorbed and integrated into it.
1885
Panama Canal
assimilation
1095 CE
5. South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans - they held political power after 1910.
Mali
Hiroshima
Alexandria
Afrikaners
6. The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin.
Nubians
Creoles
Mahabharata
Akbar
7. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Habsburg
Guild
Fresco
8. Infantry - originally of slave origin - armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
Nazca
Nikita Khrushchev
Janissaries
Getulio Vargas
9. The transformation of the economy - the environment - and living conditions - occurring first in England in the eighteenth century - that resulted from the use of steam engines - the mechanization of manufacturing in factories - transit - and communi
Steel
732 CE
Industrial Revolution
cuneiform
10. Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.
Persian Wars
Creoles
Bengal
Pilgrims
11. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation - and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
476 CE
Suez Canal
1618
12. A French Protestant
Great Circuit
legalism
Huguenot
Carthage
13. Ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Ruled with an iron fist - using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition.
Joesph Stalin
Agora
1258 CE
Mandate System
14. Trials held for the Germans convicted of war crimes
Hebrew Bible
Nuremberg Trials
Yuan Empire
Yurt
15. A term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon.
Three-field system
Mahayana Buddhism
Tanakh
1324 CE
16. Also known as the Huang-He. The second longest river in China. The majority of ancient Chinese civilizations originated in its valley.
Israel
Nuremberg Trials
Treaty of Versailles
Yellow River
17. The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation.
Apostle Paul
221 BCE
Sandinista
Zen
18. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
1848
1453 CE
Encomienda
Polis
19. German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918.
Max Planck
Shang
Fresco
Carthage
20. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
1804
Siddhartha Gautama
Samsara
Chavin
21. Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal (Hint: 1__6)
The Mahdi
Constantinople
Legalism
1956
22. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars - the earliest surviving Indian writing.
Joesph Stalin
Asoka
Hittites
333 CE
23. Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes - Lydians - and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name
Helsinki Accords
Hieroglyphics
Cyrus II
Simon Bolivar
24. Italian explorer who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China - from his travels throughout there.
vassal
Marco Polo
Safavid Empire
Zhou
25. Political realism or practical politics - especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
1607
Bantu
Sumer
Realpolitik
26. One of the first monotheistic religions - particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
Diaspora
Samurai
Gentry
Zoroastrianism
27. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the western part
Samsara
Byzantine Empire
Berlin Blockade
Jesus
28. Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began (Hint: 1__0s)
Third World
1066 CE
Hundred Years War
1810s
29. A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
Bantu
Pericles
Separate Spheres
Babylon
30. President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Yellow Turban
John F. Kennedy
Ayatollah Khomeini
Hittites
31. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional Convention
1935
Olmec
Bartholomew Dias
32. Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa (Hint: 1__4)
Bantu
Four Noble Truths
Serbia
1994
33. Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death
Francisco Franco
Western Front
Stalingrad
1950
34. A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150 -000 at its peak in 600.
Gens de couleur
Assimilation
Augustus
Teotihuacan
35. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Gupta Empire
Realpolitik
Concordat
Cold War
36. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Pax Romana
Yellow River
Indian Ocean
37. Famous artist/painter in the 15th century. Created 'The Mona Lisa' and 'The Last Supper'
Byzantine Empire
Leonardo da Vinci
The Mahdi
Vladimir Lenin
38. Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire (r. 221-210 B.C.E.). He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Shi Huangdi
John Locke
Ayatollah Khomeini
1967
39. The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another.
Iroquois Confederacy
Cold War
Siddhartha Gautama
loess
40. The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 - in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization - industrialization - and imperialism.
1776
Shinto
Meiji Restoration
1979
41. Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.
Berlin Conference
Tiananmen Square
Code of Hammurabi
1324 CE
42. Islamic society that ruled the area that is currently Iran during 1502-1736
James Watt
Safavid Persia
Roman Republic
Cossaks
43. A system that the Spanish let colonists employ Indians in forced labor
Bourgeoisie
1949
2001
Repartimiento
44. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Kievan Russia
Khomeini
Investiture
Philosophes
45. A member of the more mystical third sect of Islam
Agricultural Revolution
Sumerians
Fertile Crescent
Sufi
46. Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society - with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people
Franz Ferdinand
Mikhail Gorbachev
Victorian Age
Scramble for Africa
47. 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.
1258 CE
Charlemagne
Hittites
Max Planck
48. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Caliphate
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mercantilism
Memphis
49. The 1 -100-mile (1 -700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Serbia
Grand Canal
Indulgence
Scramble for Africa
50. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
Xia
Constitutional Convention
Mongol Empire
Ramesses II