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AP World History
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1. Women forced into prostitution by the Japanese during WWII. The women came from countries in East and Southeast Asia as Japan's empire expanded.
Ming
Comfort girls
James Watt
Democracy
2. 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.
Steppes
Socialists
Macartney Mission
Constitutionalism
3. Members of the Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe.
Parthians
Papacy
Jesuits
Humanism
4. A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept
Teotihuacan
Scramble for Africa
pictograms
Indulgence
5. A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It Against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era. Members
Bread and Circuses
George Washington
Alexandria
Young Turks
6. A powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman Emperors - founded the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire - and ruled sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain.
Abolition
1941
Habsburg
Teotihuacan
7. 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.
Charlemagne
Vladimir Lenin
Akhenaten
Bartholomew Dias
8. Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; its adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles.
1929
Beijing
Royal African Company
Horse collar
9. An alliance of five northeastern Amerindian peoples (after 1722 six) that made decisions on military and diplomatic issues through a council of representatives. Allied first with the Dutch and later with the English - it dominated W. New England.
Memphis
Iroquois Confederacy
Tang Empire
Syncretism
10. Son of Cyrus II; extended the Persian Empire into Egypt
Bartolome de Las Casas
Cambyses II
Charlemagne
Paleolithic
11. Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.
Cambyses II
Yin and yang
Tao-te Ching
Inca
12. An array of Germanic peoples - pushed further westward by nomads from central Asia. They in turn migrated west into Rome - upsetting the rough balance of power that existed between Rome and these people.
Goths
1939
Papyrus
Mughal Empire
13. A 184 C.E. peasant revolt against emperor Ling of Han. Led by Daoists who proclaimed that a new era would be3ing with the fall of the Han. Although this specific revolt was suppressed - it triggered a continuous string of additional outbreaks.
Yellow Turban
World Bank
Muhammad
Code of Hammurabi
14. A term used to designate (1) the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley and spread throughout regions of China suitable for agriculture and (2) the dynasty of emperors who ruled from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
McCarthyism
Mein Kampf
Han
Timur
15. Muslim dynasty after Ummayd - a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons
Nonaligned
Shinto
Ma'at
Abbasid Dynasty
16. English naturalist. He studied the plants and animals of South America and the Pacific islands - and in his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
1325 CE
Atahualpa
Sunnis
17. An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade - created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
Lama
Yin and yang
Labor union
Khubilai Khan
18. A state that is not ruled by a hereditary leader (a monarchy) but by a person or persons appointed under the constitution
10000 BCE
Mikhail Gorbachev
Quran
Republic
19. The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt - near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids.
Capitalism
Treaty of Versailles
Memphis
Republic
20. Land-owning noblemen in Ancient Rome
Abbasid Dynasty
333 CE
Patricians
Umma
21. Date: Haitian Independence (Hint: 1__4)
10000 BCE
1804
Proxy wars
Capitalism
22. European government policies of the sixteenth - seventeenth - and eighteenth centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland coun
Philosophes
Sepoy
Puritans
Mercantilism
23. Sea-faring proto-Greek kingdom whose abrupt demise triggered the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1200 BCE-800 BCE
1571
2001
Punic Wars
Mycenae
24. Removal of entire peoples used as terror tactic by Assyrian and Persian Empires.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Uigurs
Mass deportation
Berlin Conference
25. First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs (661 to 750). From their capital at Damascus - the Umayyads ruled one of the largest empires in history that extended from Spain to India. Overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
Roman Senate
Umayyad Caliphate
Vasco da Gama
1950
26. War between France and Britain - lasted 116 years - mostly a time of peace - but it was punctuated by times of brutal violence (1337 to 1453)
Dirty War
Hundred Years War
Mass production
Emperor Menelik
27. Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution (Hint: 1__7)
1588
1967
Constantine
Crusades
28. in Ancient Rome - a plebian officer elected by plebeians charged to protect their lives and properties - with a right of veto against legislative proposals of the Senate.
Mohenjo-Daro
Christopher Columbus
Tribune
Delhi Sulatanate
29. 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.
Shogun
Caravel
10000 BCE
Afrikaners
30. Born in Austria - became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Atahualpa
Gulag
Adolf Hitler
Mestizo
31. Economic policy that restricted the outflow of money; made state stronger economically
Caesar Augustus
Mercantilism
Hieroglyphics
Oracle Bones
32. A popular philosophical movement of the 1700s that focused on human reasoning - natural science - political and ethical philosophy.
Hittites
Enlightenment
Fresco
Gens de couleur
33. American intellectual - inventor - and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.
Repartimiento
Aztecs
Minoans
Benjamin Franklin
34. A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states. They were primarily armed as spear-men.
Martin Luther
Hoplite
Apostle Paul
Creoles
35. In early modern Europe - the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing - finance - commerce - and allied professions.
1863
Bourgeoisie
Woodrow Wilson
Nirvana
36. The first king of the Babylonian Empire. Best known for his legal code.
Timur
Telegraph
Tao-te Ching
Hammurabi
37. 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
Junk
1839
Monophysites
assimilation
38. Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
Kepler
Estates General
Constitutional Convention
Teotihuacan
39. Form of government in which power is centralized into a local city-state.
Persia
Polis
Timur
Atahualpa
40. The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Romans did not seek to Romanize them - but the subjugated people pursued it.
Hegemony
Steam engine
St. Augustine
Romanization
41. The 'divine wind -' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.
Bread and Circuses
Tenochtitlan
Monasticism
Kamikaze
42. French revolutionary group formed mainly by middle classes who opposed more radical
Artha-sastra
323 BCE
Girondins
1917
43. A place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold.
Balance of power
Gujarat
Otto von Bismarck
Stock exchange
44. City in North Africa that developed trading outposts in Italy; Rome toke control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars
Carthage
Yellow River
Guild
Hatshepsut
45. He led the coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and started a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt
Hinduism
Gunpowder
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nuremberg Trials
46. Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533.
Fransisco Pizarro
Shakespeare
1095 CE
Mamluks
47. The four major social divisions in India's caste system: the Brahmin priest class - the Kshatriya warrior/administrator class - the Vaishya merchant/farmer class - and the Shudra laborer class.
Shogun
Varna
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Helsinki Accords
48. The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
1492
Persepolis
49. German physicist - father of modern quantum physics.
Cossaks
Albert Einstein
Delhi
Bhagavad-Gita
50. Date: Iranian Revolution (Hint: 1__9)
Nonaligned
Guomindang
1979
Mandate System