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AP World History
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1. Characterized inter-state relations in ancient India
Civilian Conservation Corps
Treaty of Nanking
Artha-sastra
Code of Hammurabi
2. Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
Auschwitz
Zimmerman telegram
Nubians
Sepoy Mutiny
3. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953
Fresco
Hacienda
Balance of power
Winston Churchill
4. The theologians and legal experts of Islam.
Sokoto Caliphate
Zionism
Civilian Conservation Corps
Ulama
5. Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou - was the prerogative of Heaven - the chief deity - to grant power to the ruler of China.
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Malay
Mandate of Heaven
6. A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran - the most important basis for Islamic law.
Tribune
hadith
Janapadas
Bantu
7. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) on the basis of his reception of divine revelations - which were collected after his death into the Quran.
Apostle Paul
Laissez Faire
Islam
Fertile Crescent
8. General in the Persian army who took power when Cambyses II died; he continued many of Cyrus' policies and was a more capable ruler than Cambyses
Grand Canal
Yuan Empire
Scientific Revolution
Darius I
9. Targeting random people who are usually civilians with violence for a political purpose.
Treaty Ports
1871
Terrorism
Four Noble Truths
10. The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia - North Africa - and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century - carrying off vast numbers of persons.
1945
1618
Napoleon
Black Death
11. A religion - originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China - Burma - Japan - Tibet - and parts of southeast Asia - holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enligh
Acropolis
Buddhism
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Malay
12. Goal of international efforts to prevent countries other than the five declared nuclear powers (United States - Russia - Britain - France - and China) from obtaining nuclear weapons. The first Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
Empiricism
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nuclear nonproliferation
Shang
13. Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon - who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
1492
Persepolis
Nuremberg Trials
Mycenae
14. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Divination
Delhi Sulatanate
Albert Einstein
Teotihuacan
15. One of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
Siberia
Habsburgs
Aswan High Dam
Max Planck
16. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675 - warriors from this group mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule.
Yellow Turban
Theravada Buddhism
Sikhism
Nehru
17. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Democracy
Olmec
Cuban Missile Crisis
Richard Arkwright
18. The kingdoms of southern India - inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages - which developed in partial isolation - and somewhat differently - from the Aryan north.
Tamil Kingdoms
Sikhs
Sepoy
Augustus
19. Date: Cuban Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Shah Abbas I
Zheng He
1959
Byzantine Empire
20. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as 'The Lawgiver.' He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.
Suleiman the Magnificent
Congress of Vienna
Deng Xiaoping
Proxy war
21. Heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx formation. Hoplite armies-militias composed of middle- and upper-class citizens supplying their own equipment. Famously defeated superior nu
Great Zimbabwe
Copernicus
Pericles
Hoplite
22. Date: Fall of Rome(Hint: _76 CE)
Roman Republic
Stalingrad
Cyrus II
476 CE
23. City in Russia - site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd.
Emilano Zapata
Ghana
Stalingrad
Tito
24. The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion.
Artha-sastra
Zoroaster
Deism
1492
25. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
Capitalism
Janapadas
Fidel Castro
Solon
26. A popular leader during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. An outlaw in his youth - when the revolution started - he formed a cavalry army in the north of Mexico and fought for the rights of the landless in collaboration with Emiliano Zapata.
Tiananmen Square
Maximillien Robespierre
1931
Pancho Villa
27. Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.
Cottage industry
National Assembly
Minoan
Golden Horde
28. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Karma
Weimar Republic
Great Circuit
1949
29. Date: Russo-Japanese War (Hint: 1__5)
Hinduism
Papacy
Scientific Revolution
1905
30. Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana
Rama
Hittites
Asante
Otto von Bismarck
31. Was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo - which now is called Tokyo. This family ruled from Edo 1868 - when it was abolished during the Meiji Restora
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Scramble for Africa
Safavid Persia
Tokugawa Shogunate
32. Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
1939
Chinampas
Champa Rice
Peloponnesian War
33. A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse - paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Vladimir Lenin
Papyrus
Postmodernism
Siddhartha Gautama
34. The central text of Daoism.
1810s
Absolutism
Tao-te Ching
Bartolomeu Dias
35. Government established at Kiev in Ukraine around 879 CE by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population.
Separate Spheres
Chiefdom
Tang Revival
Kievan Russia
36. An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama - who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of this word) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
Hellenistic Age
Witchcraft
Kamikaze
Buddha
37. (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Buddha
527 CE
Henry the Navigator
Dutch West India Company
38. Treeless plains - especially the high - flat expanses of northern Eurasia - which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. Good for breeding horses: essential to Mongol military.
City state
Divination
Epic of Gilgamesh
Steppes
39. German physicist who developed the theory of relativity - which states that time - space - and mass are relative to each other and not fixed.
Perestroika
Augustus
Puritans
Albert Einstein
40. Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa - France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany - Belgium - Portugal - Italy - and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.
1914-1918
Treaty Ports
1919
Scramble for Africa
41. Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world - the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.
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42. Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Hint: 1__1)
1931
Darius I
Jose Morelos
Abolition
43. The community of believers in Islam - which transcends ethnic and political boundaries.
Mahabharata
Bhagavad-Gita
Umma
Pearl Harbor
44. Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope
Hoplite
Kepler
Umayyad Caliphate
Bartholomew Dias
45. The greatest of the Mughald Emperors. Second half of 1500s. Descendant of Timur. Consolidated power over northern India. Religiously tolerant. Patron of arts - including large mural paintings.
Mandate System
Theodosius
Abbasid Dynasty
Akbar
46. Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Marco Polo
ethnic cleansing
Akbar
Hittites
47. A distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
1600
Movable type
Balance of Power
Franz Ferdinand
48. Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada (Hint: 1__7)
1987
Mandate System
Paleolithic
1517
49. Collective name for South Korea - Taiwan - Hong Kong - and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Asian Tigers
Mantra
Cottage industry
Holy Roman Empire
50. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Solon
Theodosius
Chinampas
Democracy