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AP World History
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1. 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.
Korean War
Napoleon
1954
Varna
2. Mesoamerican civilization in lower Mexico around 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE focused. Most remembered for their large stone heads.
Centuries
Olmec
Zapata
Beijing
3. Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control 'the c
New Economic Policy
urbanization
Vladimir Lenin
Salvador Allende
4. Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century. Today this region includes part o
Armenia
Xia
deforestation
Bengal
5. The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe - Africa - and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.
Mandate System
Jenne-Jeno
Great Circuit
Tang Empire
6. The period of stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas.
Golden Horde
Caesar Augustus
Empiricism
Pax Romana
7. Date: First Opium War in China (Hint: 1__9)
Crystal Palace
Zheng He
Druids
1839
8. King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire - which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate - though started an intellectual revival.
Patricians
Charlemagne
2001
Qing Empire
9. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Aryans
1815
Diaspora
Colonization
10. Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers(Hint '___ century BCE')
1994
5th century BCE
Rama
1950
11. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century.
Scholasticism
Gujarat
Aristotle
Octavian
12. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Plato
Habsburg
Byzantine Empire
King Leopold II King of Belgium
13. 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
1905
Thomas Edison
Humanism
Tokugawa Shogunate
14. Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Hernan Cortes
Sepoy
Keiretsu
Colonialism
15. A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food - cloth - and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.
Tribute system
Khipu
Charles de Gaulle
Pancho Villa
16. Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations (Hint: _000s BCE)
Shinto
St. Augustine
3000s BCE
Muhammad Ali
17. The Ottoman province in the Balkans that rose up against Janissary control in the early 1800s. Terrorists from here triggered WWI. After World War II it became the central province of Yugoslavia.
Lusitania
Persian Wars
Great Zimbabwe
Serbia
18. 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.
Sun Yat-Sen
Jose Morelos
Tokugawa Shogunate
Monophysites
19. 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.
Indulgences
Glorious Revolution
Little Ice Age
Druids
20. 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.
Sikhism
Great Circuit
Alexandria
Iroquois Confederacy
21. The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.
Glorious Revolution
Mulatto
Treaty of Versailles
Cecil Rhodes
22. The intellectual movement in Europe - initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics - that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
St. Augustine
Manchuria
1962
Scientific Revolution
23. City located in present-day Tunisia - founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. It became a major commercial center and naval power in the western Mediterranean until defeated by the expanding Roman Republic in the third century B.C.E.
Leonardo da Vinci
Janissaries
Carthage
Terrorism
24. 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life - liberty - and property.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Colonialism
John Locke
Junk
25. Overthrow of the Monarchy in France in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are executed
Silk Road
French Revolution
Nehru
Maori
26. 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
Tokugawa Shogunate
Benjamin Franklin
The Golden Triangle
Socialists
27. Revolutionary Leader in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Zapata
Trireme
Roman Principate
Abbasid Dynasty
28. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India - opening an important commercial sea route.
Vasco da Gama
Silk Road
Hiroshima
1848
29. One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50 -000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.
Telegraph
Jenne-Jeno
Armenia
Jizya
30. Part of the second triumvirate whom the power eventually shifted to. Assumed the name Augustus Caesar - and became emperor. Was the end of the Roman Republic and the start of the Pax Romana.
cuneiform
Richard Arkwright
Iroquois Confederacy
Octavian
31. A system in which - from the time of the Han Empire - countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states - acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China.
Printing press
Darius I
ethnic cleansing
Tributary system
32. Precursor the United Nations created after World War I.
League of Nations
Deng Xiaoping
1853
1689
33. A designation for peoples originating in south China and Southeast Asia who settled the Malaysian Peninsula - Indonesia - and the Philippines - then spread eastward across the islands of the Pacific Ocean and west to Madagascar. (p. 190)
Zapata
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Malay
1885
34. China's northern capital - first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
1066 CE
Jainism
Crystal Palace
35. A French general and then French Emperor later exiled to the island of St. Helena
Tokugawa Shogunate
Napoleon
Tennis Court Oath
Porfirio Díaz
36. The collection of Jewish rabbinic discussion pertaining to law - ethics - and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
Atahualpa
Talmud
Mahayana Buddhism
1994
37. Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church (Hint: __54 CE)
Zulu
1054 CE
1935
Habsburgs
38. A person who lives a way of life - forced by a scarcity of resources - in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.
Alexander the Great
Nomad
Hegemony
Babylon
39. Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to his new city of St. Petersburg.
Lusitania
Napoleon
1935
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
40. The Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Caliphate
Persepolis
Aqueduct
Nazca
41. 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.
Delian League
Tribune
Great Zimbabwe
Diocletian
42. Date: Thirty Years War begins (Hint: 1__8)
Shogun
Gens de couleur
1618
Habsburg
43. Nazis' program during World War II to kill people they considered undesirable. Some 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust - along with millions of Poles - Gypsies - Communists - Socialists - and others.
Steppes
Vishnu
Holocaust
Caesar Augustus
44. Remission of sins granted to people by the Catholic church - such as for money
Cossaks
Sudetenland
Indulgences
Theodosius
45. In Tibetan Buddhism - a teacher.
Lama
Battle of Midway
Huns
Mohandas Gandhi
46. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7 - 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
Mohenjo-Daro
Prince Henry The Navigator
Delhi
47. The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods - wealth - people - and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. (p. 497)
Pilgrims
Holocaust
1095 CE
Atlantic System
48. Early Indian sacred 'knowledge'-the literal meaning of the term-long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.
Gold Coast
World Bank
Vedas
Sufi
49. Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Jose Morelos
5th century BCE
1931
50. Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople(Hint: _33 CE)
Hundred Years War
333 CE
1919
Minoan