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AP World History
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1. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
323 BCE
Quran
Adolf Hitler
Shang Dynasty
2. Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814.
Parthians
Jose Morelos
Comfort girls
Divination
3. The world's first civilization - founded in Mesopotamia - which existed for over 3 -000 years.
6th century BCE
1910
Scientific Revolution
Sumer
4. Part of the first triumvirate who eventually became 'emperor for life'. Chose not to conquer Germany. Was assassinated by fellow senators in 44 B.C.E.
Balance of power
Laissez faire
1939
Julius Caesar
5. Immigrants who arrived at the Ganges river valley by the year 1000 BC
Serbia
323 BCE
Mass deportation
Aryans
6. Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
Abolition
Mycenae
Mansa Musa
Maya
7. A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450.
Printing press
1066 CE
Punic Wars
Albert Einstein
8. Rebel forces in Nicaragua who struggled against what they saw as US occupation of their nation and US backed puppet rulers in their nation's government. Particularly active in the 1970s and 1980s. The US frequently arranged groups to fight against th
Cottage industry
Sandinista
Juan Peron
Gentry
9. Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind.
Emperor Menelik
Fascism
Sigmund Freud
Diaspora
10. Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the 400s BCE. Essentially Perisa--biggest empire in the world at the time--invaded Greece twice with an overwhelming force and lost both times. It contributed heavily to the rise of Athens
Yin and yang
Roman Republic
Vasco da Gama
Persian Wars
11. 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.
Grand Canal
1488
Electricity
Zhou
12. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers gave life to the first known agricultural villages in this area about 10 -000 years ago and the first known cities about 5 -000 years ago.
Winston Churchill
Han
Nasir al-Din Tusi
Fertile Crescent
13. Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France - involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
Umayyad Caliphate
Constantine
Hundred Years War
1502
14. A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.
Zulu
Deng Xiaoping
Scholasticism
Constantine
15. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Hittites
Zapata
Cotton
Helsinki Accords
16. The supporters of a doctrine in the early Christian Church that held that the incarnate Christ possessed a single - wholly divine nature. they opposed the orthodox view that Christ had a double nature - one divine and one human - and emphasized his d
Victorian Age
Great Circuit
Scientific Revolution
Monophysites
17. City founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
1898
Marie Curie
Maximillien Robespierre
18. A small - highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
Tributary system
Huns
Caravel
Epic of Gilgamesh
19. Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US (Hint: 1__3)
Muslim
1863
Shah Abbas I
League of Nations
20. Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa (Hint: 1__5)
Persia
1885
2001
Hammurabi
21. 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.
Gentry
Leonardo da Vinci
James Watt
Khomeini
22. Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror. See Jacobins.
OPEC
Centuries
St. Augustine
Maximillien Robespierre
23. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
1054 CE
City state
Nonaligned
Max Planck
24. 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.
1941
Black Death
Druids
Pilgrims
25. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Ottomans
Khmer Empire
liberalism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
26. 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.
Daoism
Winston Churchill
Dar al-Islam
Patricians
27. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Sunnis
Vishnu
New Imperialism
Lama
28. Philosophy that teaches that everything should be left to the natural order; rejects many of the Confucian ideas but coexisted with Confucianism in China
1931
Daoism
Uigurs
323 BCE
29. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities - headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806.
1258 CE
Diffusion
Holy Roman Empire
Bourgeoisie
30. The belief that the government shouldn't intervene much and should instead let the people do
Sikhs
Ferdinand Magellan
Sokoto Caliphate
Laissez Faire
31. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico - Central America - and Peru. (Examples Cortez - Pizarro - Francisco.)
Conquistadors
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1935
Timur
32. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Plato
Sepoy
Little Ice Age
Francisco Franco
33. Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Samsara
Benito Mussolini
Christopher Columbus
Malay
34. Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia) - the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler - and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Mass production
Crusades
Hatshepsut
urbanization
35. Very radical French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Minoan
Enlightenment
Muhammad Ali
Jacobins
36. An adherent of the Islamic religion.
Muslim
Qin
House of Burgesses
1810s
37. Soviet blocking of Berlin from allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
Vladimir Lenin
Yuan Empire
Tokugawa Shogunate
38. The last Aztec emperor. Here he is on vacation at the beach - just days before being captured and killed by Cortés in 1520.
Montezuma II
NATO
Mecca
Muhammad Ali
39. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Swahili
Martin Luther
Mestizo
Silk Road
40. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Mulatto
Realpolitik
Investiture
Printing press
41. Leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others - as in a confederation.
Hegemony
1935
Indian Civil Service
Fascism
42. 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.
Samurai
Cossaks
Yurt
Gujarat
43. A conduit - either elevated or under ground - using gravity to carry water from a source to a location-usually a city-that needed it. The Romans built many of these in a period of substantial urbanization.
Indentured servitude
Aqueduct
Abbasid Caliphate
John F. Kennedy
44. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
1929
1071 CE
1989
Shi Huangdi
45. Alliance against democracy - supporting communism
Warsaw Pact
1776
Tenochtitlan
1502
46. Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Chinampas
Asoka
1941
Tributary system
47. 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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48. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.
Augustus
Franz Ferdinand
Centuries
Laissez faire
49. A business - often backed by a government charter - that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Joint-stock company
Qin
1939
Conquistadors
50. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Nazism
Artha-sastra
Solon
Joesph Stalin