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AP World History
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1. First bishop of Chiapas - in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542 - which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labo
Mansa Musa
Bartolome de Las Casas
1689
Rajputs
2. An unofficial coalition between Julius Caesar - Pompey - and Crassus was formed in 60 B.C.E.
1949
Triumvirate
Mass deportation
Witchcraft
3. The central text of Daoism.
Hoplite
Quran
Tao-te Ching
Korean War
4. Empress of China and mother of Emperor Guangxi. She put her son under house arrest - supported anti-foreign movements like the so-called Boxers - and resisted reforms of the Chinese government and armed forces.
221 BCE
Empress Dowager Cixi
Buddhism
Eva Peron
5. The peace agreement made between Napoleon and the Pope following the chaos of the French Revolution.
Atahualpa
loess
Concordat
Afrikaners
6. Region of Northeast Asia North of Korea.
Manchuria
1618
Constantine
Napoleon Bonaparte
7. Political party in China from 1911 to 1949; enemy of the Communists. Often abbreviated at GMD.
Hammurabi
Guomindang
Hinduism
Francisco Franco
8. Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917 - then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vladimir Lenin
1954
Czar
9. Empire in Mesopotamia which was formed by Hammurabi - the sixth ruler of the invading Amorites
1935
Tao-te Ching
Babylonian Empire
Zheng He
10. Associations of businessmen and producers
Encomienda
Marie Curie
Guilds
Christopher Columbus
11. Leader of the reformation that was excommunicated by the Catholic church due to his opposition to certain practices
Sumerians
6th century BCE
Martin Luther
liberalism
12. A worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. It is a perspective common to a wide range of ethical stances that attaches importance to human dignity - concerns - and capabilities - particularly rationality. A
Socrates
Humanism
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
13. Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
Mercantilism
1989
Shi Huangdi
Botany Bay
14. Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas (Hint: 1__2)
Safavid Persia
Witchcraft
Talmud
1502
15. Descendants of the Europeans in Latin America - usually implies an upper class status.
NATO
Tang Revival
1433 CE
Creole
16. A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity - said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into the Northern Europe during 1400-1600
Weimar Republic
Italian Renaissance
Philosophes
1095 CE
17. Connected China - India - and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
Silk Road
Hernan Cortes
Young Turks
1324 CE
18. The 18th century privatization of common lands in England - which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.
Hegemony
John F. Kennedy
Enclosure Movement
Inca
19. Large conglomerate corporations that exerted a great deal of political and economic power in Imperial Japan. By WWII - four of them controlled most of the economy of Japan.
Hittites
The Mahdi
Zaibatsu
Hinduism
20. The trading of various animals - diseases - and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Colombian Exchange
Golden Horde
Salvador Allende
Hatshepsut
21. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
City state
Scholasticism
Golden Horde
Balance of power
22. Woodrow Wilson's plan put before the League of Nations to prevent future war.
Mein Kampf
Indian National Congress
Fourteen Points
Balance of Power
23. Any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.
Diaspora
Isfahan
Consul
Porfirio Díaz
24. Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after finishing off the Song Dynasty.
Mansa Musa
Sun Yat-sen
Chiefdom
Khubilai Khan
25. A soldier in South Asia - especially in the service of the British.
Joesph Stalin
Sepoy
Karl Marx
Thebes
26. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
Nehru
1095 CE
Vladimir Lenin
Balance of power
27. Greek for 'high city'. The chief temples of the city were located here.
Acropolis
Safavid Persia
Separate Spheres
1945
28. Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights (Hint: 1__9)
1689
Theodosius
Albert Einstein
Aborigine
29. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
legalism
Paleolithic
Hammurabi
Treaty of Nanking
30. 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.
Getulio Vargas
Constitutionalism
Keiretsu
Caravel
31. English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame - a machine that - with minimal human supervision - could spin several threads at onc
Solomon's Temple
Richard Arkwright
Charles Darwin
Olmec
32. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela - he led military forces there and in Colombia - Ecuador - Peru - and Bolivia.
Opium Wars
Durbar
Totalitarianism
Simon Bolivar
33. A social system that separated people by occupation - the caste system in India has virtually no social mobility
Caste system
Marie Curie
1683
Ptolemy
34. The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. Leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.
Movable type
Nuremberg Trials
Taiping Rebellion
Khomeini
35. The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
32 CE
Macedonia
Assimilation
Mein Kampf
36. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Cambyses II
Gold Coast
Benito Mussolini
Vedas
37. Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population
Cultural Revolution
Yellow Turban
Sudetenland
1962
38. Philosophy that emphasizes human reason and ethics; sometimes denies the existence of a god
Montezuma II
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Humanism
Jose Morelos
39. In medieval Europe - a large - self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house) - outbuildings - peasant village - and surrounding land.
Manor
Four Noble Truths
League of Nations
Thebes
40. Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India - it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Totalitarianism
Janissaries
Bartolome de Las Casas
Champa Rice
41. 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
Alexandria
Stone Age
Cecil Rhodes
Parthians
42. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Mongols
1929
Suleiman the Magnificent
Revolutions of 1848
43. 'Way of the Kami'; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Asante
Gulag
Khmer Empire
Shinto
44. Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.
Beijing
Sub-Saharan Africa
Jacobins
Collectivization
45. Largest land empire in the history of the world - spanning from Eastern Europe across Asia.
1095 CE
Mongol Empire
Babylon
Solon
46. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
3000s BCE
Balfour Declaration
Druids
Mughal Empire
47. Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Nation-State
Porfirio Díaz
Realpolitik
Sikhism
48. Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
Solidarity
Delian League
Tiananmen Square
Hundred Years War
49. Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire
32 CE
Teotihuacan
Pax Mongolica
Kievan Russia
50. 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.
NATO
Taiping Rebellion
Asoka
Janissaries